When Contracts and Compliance Collide!
As important as it may sometimes be that the “Legal” department be independent from “Compliance,” there are realms in which it’s best when those two functions are full collaborative partners. One of those is the realm of contracts with third parties. That was an inescapable take-away from a session on October 5th at the SCCE’s annual Compliance and Ethics Institute: […]
DOJ to Execs: You Have Been Warned
In September, Assistant Attorney General Sally Yates released what has come to be known as the “Yates Memo” — a declaration that the Justice Department was redoubling its efforts to prosecute individuals within companies for their organization’s wrongdoing. On October 29th, the other shoe dropped. As Mike Volkov so well summarizes, the top enforcer found a case […]
After SVB, any blow to entrepreneurship?
It’s the Monday after the collapse of Private Equity’s favorite bank. What’s the state of entrepreneurship? When it comes to the impact of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on companies in the tech sector funded by venture capital, the weekend brought a range of analysis. An NPR story declared “Silicon Valley Bank failure […]