Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Controls for GTE
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
Episode 371 -- DOJ's New Corporate Enforcement Program
Compliance Amidst a Global Consensus Breakdown
Compliance Tip of the Day: Discipline and Rigor in GTE Internal Controls
Great Women in Compliance: Board Bond - Why Ethics & Compliance Professionals Should Be on Boards and How to Get on One
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing, a NPA and the End of Monitors
Compliance Tip of the Day: What are Internal Controls?
Innovation in Compliance: Break the Five Lies - A Conversation with John Kormanik
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 24, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day - Contextual Diversity in Compliance
Creativity and Compliance - Overcoming Conservatism in Compliance Education with Creativity
Daily Compliance News: May 23, 2025, The Gutless Wonders Edition
Great Women in Compliance – Compliance is the Floor, Ethics is the Ceiling with Ellen Hunt
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 14: The Pig Around the Corner: Privacy and Trade with Constantine Karbaliotis of nNovation LLP
Tariffs and Trade Series: What Boards of Directors Need to Know
Upping Your Game: Episode 3 - Embedded Compliance: From Gatekeeper to Business Enabler
Innovation in Compliance: Staying the Course in Compliance: Insights from Kristy Grant-Hart
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – Business Lessons from A Study in Scarlet
We have seen, a mere few months into President Trump’s second term, a remarkably transformational set of priorities across the federal government, which have had dramatic impacts on the private sector generally and public...more
In an era defined by geopolitical shifts, heightened regulatory scrutiny and evolving societal expectations, succeeding as a global business requires a new playbook. This panel session explores some of the critical legal...more
The dawn of highly capable, agentic artificial intelligence (AI) offers an irresistible vision: corporations managed not by humans but by fleets of AI agents, each an exact replica of the best and brightest performers....more
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has announced a pause to its work on developing new mandatory climate-related disclosures and amending diversity-related disclosure requirements, in light of recent significant...more
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is pausing its work on climate-related and diversity-related disclosure rules in order “to support Canadian markets and issuers as they adapt to the recent developments in the U.S....more
In this edition of UK Equity Capital Markets Insights, we report on legislative proposals to simplify and streamline directors’ remuneration reporting; updated and consolidated guidance from the UK Financial Reporting Council...more
On 14 March 2025, the FCA published Primary Market Bulletin 54, which raised concerns around the leaking of inside information by individuals at a company or by its advisers on live M&A transactions. The FCA specifically...more
Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about....more
Some proxy advisors and institutional investors have made changes to their diversity policies and mandates, including the following ...more
The current proxy season presents new challenges and opportunities for U.S. companies as they face shifting expectations regarding board diversity. There are a number of notable developments. The Fifth Circuit Court of...more
We are pleased to share the February 2025 issue of Wilson Sonsini's Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update. Each issue combines news, key legal developments, and resources related to sustainability and environmental,...more
As we reported in our Preparing for the 2025 Proxy Season client alert, Glass Lewis announced on February 18, 2025, that it was reviewing its diversity-related voting guidelines “in the face of the U.S. Administration’s...more
This Cooley Alert that I blogged about earlier today – penned by Brad Goldberg, Beth Sasfai, Luci Altman, and Michael Mencher – has been updated for this development...more
Public companies find themselves rethinking disclosures relating to the diversity of their board and their director recruitment practices as they head into proxy season, given recent developments – including the US Court of...more
With the 2025 proxy season upon us, this Alert highlights governance, disclosure, and engagement considerations for companies preparing for their 2025 annual meetings. Many of the governance and disclosure matters discussed...more
This is the fifth in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
Given the late season announcement last week from ISS on its board diversity voting policies, it’s not that surprising that Glass Lewis also has now announced changes to its voting policies in this area. Glass Lewis has sent...more
Key Points - - Board self-assessment processes aimed at improving board performance, composition, culture and processes are common but vary widely in how they are conducted and who is assessed. - Most S&P 500 companies...more
Boards face a multitude of challenges, and opportunities, with the change in administrations. As we describe in the latest issue of The Informed Board, the new administration is forcing companies to reexamine their approaches...more
On February 11, 2025, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) announced a change to its voting policy with respect to board diversity. ISS will no longer consider the gender and racial and/or ethnic diversity of U.S. company...more
In a rare move to update its voting policies in the midst of proxy season, ISS issued this press release stating it will no longer consider a board’s gender, racial or ethnic diversity when making director election...more
Citing recent DEI developments in the U.S., ISS released its Statement on Diversity Factors in Director Elections on February 11, 2025 announcing that it will “indefinitely halt consideration of certain diversity factors in...more
In 2018 and 2020, California enacted laws mandating that publicly held corporations (as defined) having their principal executive offices in California have specified minimum numbers of directors who are female and from...more
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On February 11, 2025, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) announced that it is suspending the consideration of diversity factors when making voting recommendations for directors at U.S. public companies. ISS’s press...more