Securities Enforcement Forum 2012 is a one-day conference in Washington, D.C. that brings together securities enforcement and white-collar attorneys, current and former senior SEC and DOJ officials, in-house counsel and compliance executives, and other top professionals in the field.
The Forum will analyze issues including:
- Trends in the criminalization of securities law
- Anti-corruption trends, developments and best practices worldwide
- Ethics issues in bringing and defending SEC investigations, including SEC scrutiny of “sharp practices” by defense counsel
- Reforms at the SEC post-Madoff: “Smarter, swifter, and more strategic?”
- International enforcement of securities laws, and cooperation with the U.S.
- The SEC’s enforcement response to the financial crisis
- The expanding definition of insider trading and compliance challenges for companies and investment firms
- Trends and key issues in financial fraud and accounting investigations
- The future of the SEC settlement process
- Cooperation agreements, non-prosecution agreements and deferred prosecutions agreements
- The use of forensic analysis in securities enforcement matters
- Whistleblower developments and the role of the SEC under Dodd-Frank