With more than 130 highly trained enforcement accountants at his disposal, Matthew Jacques, the Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), provided a firsthand glimpse into current enforcement objectives for policing accounting and auditor misconduct. Mr. Jacques was a featured panelist at the Securities Docket annual conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, along with forensic accountant Martin Wilczynski of Ankura Consulting, and defense counsel John J. Carney of BakerHostetler and Luis Mejia of Perkins Coie.
