Day: March 25, 2021

MoForecast: Predictions on SEC Regulation

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Post date March 25, 2021
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In this episode of MoForecast, Morrison & Foerster partner James Koukios speaks with fellow partner Dave Lynn about what to expect in SEC regulation under the Biden Administration.

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The MoForecast podcast series, produced by global law firm Morrison & Foerster, looks into what we saw in the legal landscape under the Trump administration and how policies might change under President Biden by leveraging the firm’s decades of private practice experience and insight from former government roles. Discover more MoForecast episodes.
About the Speakers
James Koukios is co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White Collar Defense Group and serves as co-head of the FCPA + Global Anti-Corruption Practice. James represents companies and individuals in high‑stakes government enforcement actions and complex internal investigations. He previously served as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he was the lead prosecutor in two landmark FCPA related trials: United States v. Esquenazi and United States v. Duperval. While at DOJ, James also served as lead prosecutor in United States v. AEY Inc., a defense procurement fraud and export licensing case that served as the basis for the 2016 film War Dogs. He also previously served as Special Counsel to then-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III.
James is joined in this episode by:

Dave Lynn, partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office, co-chair of the firm’s Latin Corporate Finance | Capital Markets practice, and former Chief of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance

The Morrison & Foerster team is made up of talented defense lawyers, including many who once served as prosecutors and regulators. The team helps firm clients resolve their legal issues by immersing themselves in how their clients think and operate. Learn more about the firm’s Investigations + White Collar Defense, Securities Enforcement, and Corporate Governance groups.

EMBARGOED!

EMBARGOED! Episode 26: A War of Words in Alaska

Post author By Miller & Chevalier
Post date March 25, 2021
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On the latest episode, Brian and Tim return their focus to China by analyzing Xiaomi’s successful court challenge to its CCMC listing and the possible repercussions of the contentious U.S.-China diplomatic session in Anchorage. We then examine a recent sentencing in a sanctions case connected to the Maduro regime and discuss the release of official findings on foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. federal election. Finally, in the Lightning Round, we cover the latest on Nord Stream 2 and new BIS restrictions on Burma.

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Timestamps:
0:10 Introduction and Roadmap
The Rundown
6:07 Xiaomi
23:26 Hong Kong Designations and Sparring in Alaska
36:42 Venezuela Sanctions Sentence
48:56 Findings of Russia Election Interference
58:50 Lightning Round
59:03 Nord Stream 2 Warnings
1:08:32 BIS Restrictions on Burma
1:14:25 Final Thoughts
***Stay sanctions free.***

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Digging Deeper

Digging Deeper Episode 5: Varsity Blues

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Post date March 25, 2021
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The headlines from Operation Varsity Blues dominated the news cycle for months – but what happened in higher education after the news trucks left campus?

In Episode 5 of Digging Deeper, Chris Morgan Jones speaks with David Holley about an investigation the K2 Integrity team conducted in the wake of the Varsity Blues scandal and the ripple effect of the FBI’s initial findings on the broader higher education system.
Internal investigations have a variety of triggers and the underlying topics include potential fraud, bribery and corruption, data leakage, and anti-competitive behavior, to name a few. The common objective is to determine whether employee misconduct has taken place.
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Digging Deeper, an investigative podcast series by K2 Integrity, helps shine a light on the investigations industry as few can: via the real-world, exceptional practitioners who, day in and day out, conduct this work across sectors and around the globe. Listen in to each episode where guests explore unique cases and share what they uncovered along the way to crack the code for clients. Learn more by clicking here, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify or Stitcher.

Uncovering Hidden Risks

Insider Risk Programs Have Come a Long Way

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Post date March 25, 2021
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In this podcast we discover the history of the practice of insider threat management; the role of technology, psychology, people, and cross-organizational collaboration to drive an effective insider risk program today; and things to consider as we look ahead and across an ever-changing risk landscape.
Welcome to Uncovering Hidden Risks, a broader set of podcasts focused on identifying the various risks organizations face as they navigate the internal and external requirements they must comply with. We’ll take you through a journey on insider risks to uncover some of the hidden security threats that Microsoft and organizations across the world are facing. We will bring to surface some best-in-class technology and processes to help you protect your organization and employees from risks from trusted insiders. All in an open discussion with topnotch industry experts!
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Everything Compliance

Episode 77, the Spring Break edition

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Post date March 25, 2021
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Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Tom Fox, Jonathan Marks, Jonathan Armstrong and Jay Rosen for a deep dive into plethora of topics related to Confirmation Hearings. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.

Jonathan Armstrong bring Scotland to Everything Compliance through the imbroglio the Scottish National Party finds itself in regarding current SNP First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former SNP First Minister Alex Salmon. Armstrong rants about the EU’s waffling on the AstraZeneca vaccine has potentially cost thousands of lives.
Jonathan Marks how continuous auditing can lead to continuous monitoring and continuous improvement. Marks rants about MLB’s decision to do away with affiliations with many minor league teams thereby consigning them to the dustbin of baseball history.

Jay Rosen talks about the ECI 2021 GBES and how retaliation against whistleblowers has skyrocketed. Rosen shouts rants about Captain Jay Baker, spokesperson for the Cherokee County Police Department who said that the Atlanta mass shooting suspect was having a “bad day.”

Tom Fox sits in this week to discuss how the Alamo can inform a compliance regime. He has an epic rant about the sorry state of Texas politicians who have publicly announced they will protect Wall Street profits earned during the failure of Texas power grid and not make any substantive reforms to the state’s power system.

The members of the Everything Compliance are:

Jay Rosen– Jay is Vice President, Business Development Corporate Monitoring at Affiliated Monitors. Rosen can be reached at JRosen@affiliatedmonitors.com
Mike Volkov – One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at mvolkov@volkovlawgroup.com
Matt Kelly – Founder and CEO of Radical Compliance. Kelly can be reached at mkelly@radicalcompliance.com
Jonathan Armstrong –is our UK colleague, who is an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at armstrong@corderycompliance.com
Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader – Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at marks@bakertilly.com

The host and producer (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Voice of Compliance. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network.