In case it was not already clear, the U.S. Department of Justice recently confirmed that ensuring the use of cryptocurrency “is safe, and does not imperil our public safety or our national security, is vitally important to...more
10/21/2020
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BSA/AML ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Digital Currency ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FinCEN ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
MSB ,
Popular ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Virtual Currency
SEC Enforcement Trends for 2016 -
Welcome to the latest edition of Fenwick and West’s Securities Litigation and Enforcement Newsletter. In this newsletter, we look at SEC enforcement trends for 2016, starting with a...more
4/1/2016
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Auditors ,
Confidentiality Agreements ,
Cooperation ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Financial Reporting ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Internal Controls ,
Mary Jo White ,
MCDC ,
Personal Liability ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Security-Based Swaps ,
Strategic Enforcement Plan ,
Voluntary Disclosure
The SEC’s enforcement numbers are in for its fiscal year ended September 2015, and to no one’s surprise, the agency filed a record number of enforcement cases. As announced on October 22, 2015, the SEC filed 807 enforcement...more
The government has increasingly focused its FCPA enforcement firepower on individuals. On August 31, a Russian official living in Maryland pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with arranging $2...more
9/24/2015
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Compliance ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Defense Contracts ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
Goodyear ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Internships ,
Money Laundering ,
Personal Liability ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
A CD or not a CD, That is the Question… That the Auditors Should Have Answered -
A headline-grabbing SEC enforcement action last week against BDO USA and several of its national partners may lead audit firms to insist on...more
9/18/2015
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Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon ,
Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Confidentiality Agreements ,
Construction Contracts ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Defense Contracts ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Embezzlement ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
Fraud ,
Internal Investigations ,
Internships ,
Money Laundering ,
Nuclear Power ,
Private Placements ,
Regulation D ,
Rule 506(c) ,
Russia ,
SAP America Inc. ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Litigation ,
Software ,
Sovereign Wealth Funds ,
Whistleblowers ,
Willful Misconduct
On Monday, September 22, 2014, the SEC announced that it expected to award between $30 and $35 million to a non-U.S. whistleblower who provided the SEC with information about “an ongoing fraud that would have been very...more
The past several years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of enforcement actions brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...more