FCPA Enforcement Getting Chopped at SEC?
The numbers at Walmart are eye-popping this holiday season, and it’s not the discount prices. The company’s third-quarter earnings report revealed...
Will Recent Data Breaches Impact the 2018 Filing Season?
One can only hope that the recently uncovered data breach at Uber—which exposed the data of more than 50 million individuals and involved a company-...
Proxy Season 2018: Dodd-Frank disclosure to reveal CEO Pay Ratio’s
Despite an emphasis on deregulation under the Trump administration, pay ratio disclosure is a go for the 2018 proxy season. In September 2017, the SEC...
AT&T Deal Spotlights White House Risk Factor
Last week, the Financial Times broke the story that the Department of Justice is requiring AT&T to sell off CNN as a condition for its approval of...
Will New SEC Guidance on Shareholder Proposals Impact the 2018 Proxy Season?
With the 2018 proxy season on the not-so-distant horizon, issuers need to take into consideration new SEC guidance that could give companies reason to...
Federal Probe into Booz Allen Hamilton Accounting Practices Widens with SEC Investigation
The plot thickens. Four months after revealing a Justice Department investigation related to accounting and indirect cost charging practices with the ...