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SEC moves to require companies to report use of "conflict minerals"

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • March 30 2011

The SEC's new rules may prove to be a headache for companies that use small amounts of conflict minerals and that do not closely track the sourcing of conflict minerals throughout their supply chain

Directors' and officers' insurance policies should be reviewed in light of anticipated increase in whistleblowing activity instigated by the Dodd-Frank Act and the UK Bribery Act

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • January 5 2011

The Dodd-Frank Act contains a number of controversial provisions, but perhaps none more so than mandatory payment of a substantial bounty to individuals who provide "original information" to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leading to fines in excess of US$1 million