International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has announced that Henry Ong and Jasson Han have joined the firm’s Hong Kong office. Ong joins Weil’s Corporate Department as a partner from the Hong Kong office of Simmons & Simmons, where he worked for 9 years as a partner in its corporate team. He has extensive […]
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.
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IBM Names Boeing CEO to Its Board
$103.6 billion IBM has elected W. James McNerney to its board of directors. McNerney is president and chief executive officer of The Boeing Company. McNerney assumed his current leadership posts at The Boeing Company in July of 2005. Previously, he was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of 3M. McNerney also had served […]
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Hartford Financial Names Chief Risk Officer
Lizabeth Zlatkus, chief financial officer of $9.2 billion life insurer Hartford Financial Services Group, has been appointed its chief risk officer. Zlatkus will remain in her current role as CFO until a successor has been found, the company announced. Zlatkus was named CFO in May 2008. She joined Hartford in its property/casualty business in 1983. […]
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Conducting Ethical Corporate Investigations
Anyone looking for a step-by-step approach to conducting lawful corporate investigations can steal some ideas from the Association of Corporate Counsel. The ACC presented a panel discussion on internal investigations during its annual conference in Boston last week, and posed the following hypothetical: One of the company’s office managers has received an anonymous e-mail, where […]
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Keeping Pace With Anti-Trust Enforcement
Corporate legal departments might want to move antitrust enforcement a few steps higher on the priority scale for 2010. So said numerous speakers at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s annual meeting last week, during a forum to review the Obama Administration’s appetite for antitrust compliance. With new heads of antitrust policy at both the Federal […]
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Management Changes at Mariner Energy
$1.3 billion Mariner Energy has hired R. Cris Sherman as vice president and chief accounting officer, effective as of Oct. 26. Sherman joins Mariner from the professional services firm Sirius Solutions, which he joined in 2004 after more than 20 years of experience in various accounting positions. In other news, the company announced that John […]
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New Chief Compliance Officer at Merriman Curhan Ford
Financial services firm Merriman Curhan Ford Group has appointed Howard Bernstein as chief compliance officer. His appointment is part of the firm’ s efforts to rebuild its compliance and regulatory functions by separating those functions from its legal department, CEO Peter Coleman said in a prepared statement. In his new role, Bernstein will oversee the […]
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General Dynamics GC to Retire
$29.3 billion General Dynamics has announced the retirement of its longtime senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, David Savner. He will be retiring from the defense contracting giant Dec. 31. Savner joined General Dynamics as senior vice president in 1998 and was named general counsel in 1999. The company said it has not yet […]
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Sentencing Commission Appoints New Chair
The Senate on Oct. 21 confirmed Chief United States District Judge William Sessions as chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. Judge Sessions was nominated for this post by President Barack Obama on April 20. Judge Sessions has served as a vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission since November 1999, when he was […]
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Navistar CRO to Retire
$14.7 billion U.S. truck and engine maker Navistar International Corp., has announced the retirement of its Chief Risk Officer William Caton, effective Oct. 31. Navistar said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that his decision to retire was not a result of any disagreement with the company or its management. Caton joined […]