Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. Today, a new study finds that the SEC’s whistleblower program is paying large sums to the agency’s own former attorneys. Plus, King & Spalding snags a top CFIUS lawyer and Paul Weiss jumps into the fray on former President Donald Trump’s response to the FBI search of his Florida club. Please get in touch with tips and feedback. Contact me at [email protected] and @AGoudsward on Twitter.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission building in Washington, D.C. January 5, 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
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; ; Iran's Parliament Speaker, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, has warned Donald Trump that Tehran will close the Strait of Hormuz if the US continues its naval blockade, shortly after the US President ...