$8.4 billion specialist insurance provider Assurant has appointed Andy Mills to the newly created role of international compliance officer. Prior to Assurant, Mills worked as the European compliance director at Assurant Solutions, a subsidiary of the Assurant group. His former experience also includes two years with Grant Thornton UK as director of the financial markets […]
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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FTC General Counsel to Join Clifford Chance
William Blumenthal, who served almost four years as general counsel for the Federal Trade Commission, plans to leave the agency to return to private law practice. Blumenthal, who joined the Commission in February 2005, will join Clifford Chance as a partner in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice and chairman of its U.S. antitrust group. […]
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SEC Names New Corporation Finance Director
The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Shelley Parratt to serve as acting director of the Division of Corporation Finance. Parratt replaces John White, who left the Commission last week to return to private practice. Parratt has served as Deputy Director of the Division since 2003 and has been responsible for overseeing the disclosure review […]
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World Bank Taps New General Counsel
The World Bank, which provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world and is made up of two institutions owned by over 185 member countries, has appointed Anne-Marie Leroy as senior vice president and general counsel. Leroy, who has been a partner in charge of the department of public law in the […]
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New General Counsel at Invacare
$1.6 billion Invacare, a home medical equipment company, has named Anthony LaPlaca senior vice president and general counsel. He replaces Dale Laporte, who has retired. LaPlaca previously worked at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, a member of the Knorr-Bremse group, where he served as vice president and general counsel for more than six years. Prior […]
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Freddie Mac Elects Several New Board Members
$43.1 billion Freddie Mac has elected six new members to its board of directors. They include Linda Bammann, who retired in 2005 as chief risk officer at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Christopher Lynch, an independent consultant and former KPMG LLP executive. Both Bammann and Lynch will serve on the audit and compensation committees. […]
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UGI Appoints New Chief Risk Officer, Accounting Officer
$6.4 billion King of Prussia, Penn.-based UGI Corp. has named Davinder Athwal chief accounting officer and chief risk officer, effective Dec. 29, 2008. He reports to Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer Peter Kelly. In these new positions, Athwal assumes oversight responsibility for accounting, financial reporting, and internal controls. He also will have […]
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KEMET Corp. Taps New Chief Compliance Officer
$850.1 million KEMET Corporation, a maker of tantalum and multilayer ceramic capacitors, has promoted Susan Barkal to vice president of quality and chief compliance officer. Barkal will report to Robert Arguelles, SVP of Operational Excellence, Quality, and IT. Barkal’s role will include all quality and corporate compliance-related activity worldwide. In the chief compliance officer role, […]
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e-Discovery Challenges in Criminal Probes
The rules of legal discovery in the Internet and e-mail era are rapidly developing for civil litigation. But in the realm of criminal investigations—where the stakes can be far higher—the law still leaves corporations flailing without any way to protect electronic data, even if it belongs to innocent third parties. The recent Ninth Circuit Court […]
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Investors Push SEC for More ESG Disclosures
Yet again, institutional investors have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to do a better job disclosing environmental risks in their periodic filings. Cox The latest push by investors springs from the SEC’s “21st Century Disclosure Initiative,” which Chairman Christopher Cox launched in June to enhance the usefulness of disclosure to investors. […]
