Several recent updates relating to outsourcing remind corporations of the financial and business risks associated with the practice (both foreign and domestic). For your reference: Gearing Up For The Complicated Worlds of Outsourcing and Offshoring (Dechert LLP) “Last time, we wrote about ‘country risk’; i.e., the risk a company takes by doing business in a… Read more »
On January 4, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations issued a National Examination Risk Alert on the use of social media by registered investment advisers. Issued the very same day that the SEC charged an investment adviser with offering to sell more than $500 billion of fictitious securities via… Read more »
“In the past year, there were reports of cyber thieves hacking corporate networks to steal customer data from financial services firms and retailers, intellectual property from life sciences, technology and industrial companies and information regarding the location of major oil reserve from multinational oil companies. This proliferation of cyber attacks led to … interpretive guidance… Read more »
