Investigations

Audit

Roman E. Darmer, Bart Green | Jones Day

The drumbeat of negative publicity about alleged accounting and financial irregularities at China-based issuers listed in the U. S. recently reached a crescendo with the SEC’s decision to charge the Shanghai-based affiliate of a Big Four accounting firm with violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley...

Finance

Steven S. Sparling | Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Editor: Please tell us about your background and professional experience. Sparling: I graduated from Cardozo Law School in 1998 and joined Cleary Gottlieb’s New York office as a litigation associate. I then clerked for Judge Robert Chatigny in the U.S. District of Connecticut. Following...

Anti-Corruption

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Editor: What is the impact of the FCPA, the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, False Claims Act (including the qui tam provisions) and the UK Bribery Act and other current antibribery laws on investigations and audit procedures overall? Keneally: This is a broad question, and one could probably...