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Addressing the annual meeting of the Compliance & Legal Division of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stressed the importance of industry compliance and legal personnel as gatekeepers in risk avoidance and loss prevention. Bharara started with a nod to the "necessity and importance" of corporate prosecutions as drivers of change for persistent and systemic problems. Noting the CommerzBank deferred prosecution agreement among other recent cases, he repeated his now-annual refrain that corporate ...
Posted in: Third Circuit Court
Tags: Bharara, Compliance & Legal Division of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Financial-Industry Gatekeepers, gatekeepers, industry compliance, Lauds, SDNY, securities litigation, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara
Speaking at PLI event November 5, US District Judge Jed Rakoff joined the chorus criticizing the SEC's expanded use of its administrative forum. Rakoff acknowledged the trend's potential unfairness to Respondents, and voiced his concern that the move might stifle "the impartial development of the law in an area of immense practice importance." He also compared the Commission's 100% success rate in administrative cases during FYE September 30, 2014 with its 61% win rate in federal court over the same time. Rakoff's remarks were reported by Law360, and by Reuters, here. We've been ...
Posted in: SEC