Renee is also co-author of Corporate Whistleblowing in the Sarbanes - Oxley / Dodd - Frank Era, the leading treatise on
corporate whistleblower law.
Not exact matches
The bylaws for the two boards are also being rewritten to include more stringent conflict of interest rules and other
corporate governance enhancements such a
whistleblower policies, audit committees and rules to comply with state open meetings
laws.
Broadly speaking, the changes cover a wide spectrumof white collar crime activity and include changes to: foreign bribery
laws; the introduction of deferred prosecution agreements;
whistleblower protection in the private sector; increased powers of the
corporate regulator ASIC to investigate and prosecute breaches of the corporations
law; an increase in the available penalties applicable to white collar /
corporate crime, and changes to the anti money laundering
laws to regulate bitcoin exchanges.
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Law, Government Investigations
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Law, Defense Contract Fraud
Law, Defense Contracts
Law, False Claims Act
Law, Federal Contracts
Law, White Collar Crime
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Whistleblower Litigation
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Corporate Law, Litigation, Commercial Litigation
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Indeed, when the SEC was writing the rules for its
whistleblower program, many public companies and business groups such as the Association of
Corporate Counsel and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied hard for a requirement that employees must first report potential violations of the securities
laws internally before blowing the whistle to the SEC.