Liz Dunshee
Nessim Mezrahi

U.S. listed companies must comply with the SEC’s periodic disclosure requirements. The problem for reporting companies is that company disclosures and omissions can become the basis of liability claims and governmental investigations. In the following guest post, Liz Dunshee and Nessim Mezrahi consider the ways that companies can use data analytics to guide their disclosure decisions. Liz is a shareholder at the Fredrikson & Byron law firm and Nessim is co-founder and CEO at SAR LLC. A version of this article previously was published on Law360. I would like to thank Liz and Nessim for allowing me to publish their article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this site’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Liz and Nessim’s article. Continue Reading Guest Post: Using Data to Inform Corporate Disclosure Decisions

With the arrival of the new Chair of the SEC, Mary Jo White, the agency has undertaken a variety of new enforcement initiatives. Among the most interesting is the agency use of data anallytics to try to uncover public company accouunting abuses. The following guest post from Christopher L. Garcia, Paul Ferrillo  of the