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The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company?

Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit reversed approval of a class action settlement, finding several indications that the proposed settlement was the result of collusion between the parties and did not adequately serve the class. The case, Briseño et al. v. ConAgra Foods Inc., Case No.

Global data privacy legislation has steadily advanced over the past several years, with one of the most comprehensive and well-known laws being the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governing personal data originating in the European Union, which went into effect in 2018.

The UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment on 23 April 2021 in Burnett or Grant v International Insurance Co of Hanover Ltd [2021] UKSC 12, which arose within the context of a “deliberate acts” exclusion in an employer’s public liability insurance policy....

Abbas Kudrati is the Chief Cybersecurity Advisor for Microsoft Asia’s Enterprise Cybersecurity Group and is Tom Fox’s second guest on Microsoft Week.

The GameStop saga continues to play out nearly six months later, with the SEC and other regulators looking at possible enforcement actions.

In this divided political age, it is rare that a legislative body can agree on anything. It is rarer still to pass something unanimously.

Insurers and reinsurers navigating the increasingly complex rules on reciprocity for collateral requirements should consider recent guidance from the leading U.S. standard-setting body.

The high-profile Forstater case highlights the challenges for employers where staff have conflicting beliefs which impinge on the rights of others....
By: Allen & Overy LLP

The January 6 attack on the Capitol and the subsequent efforts to rewrite voting and vote-counting laws led many companies and CEOs to speak out, sign public statements and pause or discontinue some or all of their political donations.

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