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Web Watch: Best of the Week Ending May 11
The week’s most interesting columns and blog posts from around the web.
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SEC Escalates Battle With D&T Shanghai Over Documents, Brings 102(e) Charges
SEC brings unprecedented enforcement action against foreign audit firm under Section 106 of SOX.
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Regulator Predicts U.S. Will Soon Take Part in Chinese Inspections of Auditors
PCAOB chairman expects agency will soon be able to sit in on Chinese inspections of auditors.
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Daniel Nathan Joins Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C.
Former SEC and FINRA official joins MoFo in Washington, D.C.
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Memo To: Public Co. Employees About to Engage in Insider Trading; Re: Your Future (or Lack Thereof)
Learn it. Know it. Live it.
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SEC Orders Probe Of Watchdog Office
SEC orders independent inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct by staff of its Office of the Inspector General.
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Japan’s Leaky Markets Are Governance Washout
Promised crackdown on market abuse in Japan falling short.
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Australia: Centro Securities Class Action Settles for Record $200 Million
$200 million settlement to include significant payment from auditor PwC.
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Lyle Roberts Joins Cooley LLP in Washington, D.C.
Securities litigator joins Cooley LLP from Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Study Identifies Key Factors to Predict Securities Class Action Settlements and Amounts
Study identifies predictors of settlement incidence and settlement amount in securities fraud cases.
Judge trims Madoff trustee’s profit clawback suits
Court rules trustee may try to claw back fictitious profits only for two years prior to December 2008.
U.S. lawmaker Bachus cleared in insider trade probe
Office of Congressional Ethics recommends dismissal of insider trading allegations.
George Canellos Named Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement
Canellos to be next Deputy Director of Enforcement Division.
Bristol-Myers Gets SEC Subpoena In Foreign Bribery Probe
Bristol-Myers discloses SEC subpoena seeking information related to sales and marketing practices in “various countries.”
Criminal
- What Is An Effective Compliance Program? — The FCPA Blog
- How To Avoid Prosecution — The FCPA Blog
- A Man Overboard Will Not Sink the Ship: How Robust FCPA Compliance Can Keep a Company Out of Hot Water Even When An Executive is Neck Deep — Global Trade Law Blog
- Wal-Mart Bribery Case Raises Fundamental Governance Issues — Harvard Law School Forum on Corp. Gov. & Fin. Reg.
- An In-House Counsel Corporate Corruption Playbook — Corporate Counsel
Global
- David Green Takes Over at UK’s SFO, Vows Agency is ‘Here to Stay’
- Australia: PwC lawyers warned on tactics in Centro case
- Australia: PwC admits negligence, but not liability, in Centro class action case
- Deloitte Warns Complying With SEC Demand May Land Its Partners in Chinese Prison
- SECs Post-Morrison Study Draws Strong Disappointment from Comm. Aguilar