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The updates include a report from the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on review of issuers’ annual reports, a summary of private reprimands, and disciplinary actions....more
We are pleased to present our latest update on financial reporting and issuer disclosure enforcement activity. This White Paper primarily focuses on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) enforcement activity...more
Recent enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) signal that the SEC is paying close attention to public company financial reporting and will continue to punish misleading accounting and...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently entered into a consent order with IT services company DXC Technology (DXC) with respect to DXC’s alleged violations of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. The SEC...more
Welcome to the October – December 2022 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for asset management and investment funds. This report covers key developments during the quarter under the...more
In the most recent editions of this publication, we predicted the SEC Enforcement Division would more aggressively enforce the federal securities law than the previous administration’s Enforcement Division. While the...more
We are pleased to present our year-end update on financial reporting and issuer disclosure enforcement activity. This White Paper primarily focuses on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) enforcement activity...more
In a prelude of things to come for public companies, on December 4 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued restaurant operator The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated for making misleading disclosures regarding the...more
In the last three days of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal year, the SEC announced four corporate settlements involving alleged improper earnings management. The SEC's Division of Enforcement also...more
On September 28, the SEC announced charges against two public companies, Interface, Inc. (“Interface”) and Fulton Financial Corporation (“Fulton”), for violations related to the reporting of improperly calculated earnings per...more
The SEC charged former Hertz CEO and Chairman Mark Frissora with aiding and abetting the company in its filing of inaccurate financial statements and disclosures....more
Despite COVID-19 and concurrent situations, recent releases from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) demonstrate their keen focus on financial reporting,...more
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission wrapped up its fiscal year on September 30, 2019 with a flurry of enforcement actions filed in the final weeks of the month. These cases will provide fodder for analysis...more
At the end of last year, in an enforcement action brought by the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against ADT Inc. (ADT), reporting companies were reminded that the SEC continues to...more
The following update highlights recent corporate governance hot topics and trends for directors of public companies. Board Oversight of Mission-Critical Risks - In June 2019, the Delaware Supreme Court allowed a Caremark...more
This edition provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the past three months relevant to companies listed, or planning to list, on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx), and their advisers. In...more
Heaping further empirical evidence on the postulate that self-indulgence trumps common sense, Elon Musk is at it again, now charged by the SEC with violating his earlier settlement agreement, which required that he pre-clear...more
Disclosure alone is not sufficient; material weaknesses need to be actively remediated. While the SEC's Financial Reporting and Audit Group has been relatively quiet, it started 2019 with a bang, bringing four coordinated...more
Failure to present GAAP financial measures “with equal or greater prominence” to non-GAAP measures results in cease-and-desist order and civil fine - The SEC continues to focus on noncompliant use of non-GAAP financial...more
The SEC recently instituted cease and desist proceedings relating to a company's use of non-GAAP financial measures, signaling the agency's continued focus on these disclosures, particularly in public company earnings...more
On December 26, 2018, the SEC filed a cease-and-desist order and fined ADT Inc. (“ADT”) $100,000 for its use of non-GAAP financial measures without giving equal or greater prominence to the comparable GAAP financial measures....more
On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had settled enforcement actions against five companies for violating the Regulation S-X requirement that interim financial statements included in quarterly...more
On April 5, as one of several enforcement actions relating to an alleged Ponzi scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission settled an administrative enforcement action against a municipal bond underwriter accused of...more
In a recent speech, SEC Enforcement Director Andrew Ceresney confirmed the SEC’s continued pursuit of investigations and enforcement actions relating to issuer reporting and disclosure, an area that remains a high priority...more
Andrew Ceresney, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, gave the keynote address at last week’s Directors Forum 2016 in San Diego. In his speech, Mr. Ceresney made several points worth highlighting. First of all,...more