The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission curtailed enforcement actions ...

Recent pronouncements made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leadership, alongside the recent overhaul of the ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission initiated only 10 accounting and auditing actions last year — its lowest level in nine ...

Since the Dodd–Frank Act of 2010, the SEC has fundamentally reshaped how securities fraud and corporate misconduct are detected and addressed. Through its Office of the Whistleblower (OWB), the ...

This is the third in our 2026 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. 2025 saw fundamental shifts in securities enforcement ...

Accounting and auditing enforcement activity declined sharply in 2025 at both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the ...

Jonathan Sabin and Peter Herman analyze the SEC's September 2025 policy shift under Chairman Paul Atkins toward a "notice first" approach for technical violations. In September, Securities and ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement activity against public companies plunged in fiscal 2025, according to a new analysis, which shows the agency’s pace slowed dramatically after the ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a joint stipulation with software developer SolarWinds Corp. and its chief information security officer, Timothy G. Brown, to dismiss a ...

Paul Atkins' "Back to Basics" Era Pushes SEC Enforcement to FY2025 Lows Has the SEC quietly taken its foot off the gas? SEC enforcement actions against public companies fell to a record low in FY2025, ...

Two investment advisors just learned an expensive lesson: misleading contract language can cost you, even when your own compliance manual says you're doing everything right. The Securities and ...