Brian Howard II

Jul 1, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Palmina Fava |Rebecca Fike |Brian Howard II

For more than a decade, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has been able to bring enforcement actions in either federal court or the agency’s internal venue. Not anymore. On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pivotal ruling in the case of SEC v. Jarkesy, significantly curtailing the SEC’s ability to use its administrative proceedings to impose civil penalties for securities fraud.

Jan 25, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Brian Howard II |Craig Seebald |Ephraim Wernick

February 8th, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT V&E's Houston Office845 Texas Avenue, Suite 4700Houston, TX 77002 It is one of the hardest questions a company can face: after discovering criminal conduct inside your company, do you self-report to the government or not? The reality is that when faced with the question of self-reporting, most companies generally believe it would be unwise to voluntarily self-report criminal conduct.