The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Rchard Levine an associate general counsel for legal policy in the agency’s Office of the General Counsel, effective immediately. Levine will provide legal and policy advice to the Commission on a wide range of matters, with a particular emphasis on enforcement, corporate disclosure, and accounting. Since 1997, Levine […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
Posted inAccounting & Auditing
IRS Brass Explains Reporting of Uncertain Tax Positions
The Internal Revenue Service has begun a charm offensive to help defuse tensions about its new plans to require corporations to disclose uncertain tax positions as part of their tax returns. Speaking at an April 23 Webcast hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkins tried to assuage fears that the agency will use those […]
Posted inEthics & Culture
Talking Ethics at Tyco Electronics
In the latest of our conversations with corporate governance and compliance officers, we talk with Richard Suminski, deputy general counsel and chief ethics and compliance Officer of Tyco Electronics, about the establishment of that company’s ethics and compliance function, following its spin-off from Tyco International in 2007. Readers can also visit our archive of Q&A […]
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FINRA Bars Compliance Officer
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority last week permanently barred Tod Bretton, former chief compliance officer and head trader for Prestige Financial, for engaging in a fraudulent trading scheme that generated approximately $1.3 million in profits for him and his firm at the expense of customers by subjecting their orders to improper and undisclosed additional charges. […]
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New General Counsel at Choice Hotels
Choice Hotels International has promoted Ronald Parisotto to senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Parisotto will continue to report to President and CEO Stephen Joyce. In his new position, Parisotto is responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s legal department both domestically and internationally, including corporate governance, securities, labor, litigation, franchising, and […]
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New Managing Directors at PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced the hiring of John Loveland as a managing director in PwC’s U.S. Forensic Technology Solutions practice, and will be based in the Washington D.C. He will focus on building and growing the practice nationally, and will service a wide range of clients in matters of forensic investigations, privacy and enterprise document management. […]
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New Partner Joins Crowell & Moring
The international law firm of Crowell & Moring has announced the addition of Mark Egert as partner in the firm’s Corporate and Financial Services groups, as well as a member of the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group. Egert will draw upon 15 years of in-house counsel experience to spearhead the firm’s regulatory and […]
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Management Changes at American Electric Power
American Electric Power has named Sandra Williams as chief compliance officer, responsible for designing, implementing and administering AEP’s ethics and compliance programs. Williams joined AEP in 2000 to support its telecommunications affiliates. Later that year, she was named senior counsel of regulatory services, representing AEP’s operating companies before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and […]
Posted inBoards & Shareholders
Primerica Appoints New Board Member
$2.2 billion Primerica, a distributor of financial products, has elected P. George Benson to the company’s board of directors. He also will serve on both the audit and compensation committees. Benson has been the President of the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., since February 2007. Prior to that, he served as Dean of the […]
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Cigna Appoints New Board Member
$18.4 billion CIGNA Corporation has elected Joseph Sullivan, former chairman and CEO of Protocare, a clinical trials and pharmaceutical industry consulting firm, to its board of directors effective April 27. He will be a member of the corporate governance committee and the people resources committee. Sullivan has been a private investor since 2003. He currently […]
