Each year, PCCE holds conferences, policy speeches, colloquia, and roundtable discussions that address the most pressing compliance and enforcement issues of the day and feature as keynote speakers and panelists leading academics, judges, in-house counsel and compliance officers, private practitioners, and enforcement and regulatory officials.
Events and Keynote Speakers
Listed by academic year
2024-25 Events
Please contact Joseph Facciponti or Carolyn Pautz for more information.
- October 31st and November 1st, 2024: Fourth Annual Directors' Academy, Keynotes: Jennifer Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, NYU Law; Erik Gerding, Director of Corporate Finance, SEC; Dan Houston, CEO, Principal Financial; Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Chancery Court; Marshall Miller, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, DOJ; Matt Olsen, Assistant Attorney General, National Security, DOJ; Ismail Ramsey, U.S. Attorney, District of Northern California; Alicia Syrett, Founder, Madam Chair & Pantegrion Capital
- November 22, 2024: Annual Fall Conference
- April 2025: Annual Spring Conference
2023-24 Events
- April 2024: 10th Anniversary Conference, Keynote Speakers: Nicole Argentieri, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, DOJ; Gurbir Grewal, Director of Enforcement, SEC; Andrea Griswold, Deputy United States Attorney, SDNY; Keynote Panelists: Martine Beamon, Partner, David Polk & Wardwell; Andrew Ceresney, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton; Marshall Miller, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, DOJ; Andrew Weissmann, Professor and PCCE Senior Academic Fellow, NYU Law
- January 2024: Bureau of Industry and Security: Corporate Self-Disclosure for Export Control Violations, Keynote: Matthew Axelrod, Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement at the United States Department of Commerce
- November 2023: Security, Privacy and Consumer Protection Conference, Keynote: Harriet Pearson, Executive Deputy Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services
- October 2023: CFTC Announces Updates to Corporate and Individual Enforcement Policies, Keynote: Director of Enforcement, Ian McGinley, CFTC
- September 2023: Directors' Academy, Keynote: Heather Lavallee, CEO, Voya Financial; Gurbir Grewal, Director of Enforcement, SEC; Marshall Miller, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, DOJ
- September 2023: SEC Roundtable
2022-23 Events
- May 2023: Beyond ChatGPT
- April 2023: Implementing an Effective Compliance Program, Keynote: Breon Peace, US Attorney, Eastern District of New York
- November 2022: Structuring Enforcement to Deter Misconduct and Induce Disclosure, Keynote: Damian Williams, Southern District of New York
- October 2022 Directors' Academy
- September 2022: Deputy Attorney General Monaco Memo
2021-22 Events
- The Next Wave of Corporate Enforcement
Keynote Speakers: Gurbir Grewal, Director of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Todd Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice - October 2021: Fireside Chat With New SEC Chair Gary Gensler
- October 2021: Roundtable on Evidence-Based Anti-Corruption Enforcement
2020-21 Events
- April 2021: Beyond Diversifying Your Board
- Mar/Apr 2021: Compliance, Culture, and ESG
Keynote Speakers: Chris Brummer, Agnes N. Williams Research Professor; Faculty Director, Institute of International Economic Law; Professor of Law, Georgetown Law; Mark Steward, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, Financial Conduct Authority, United Kingdom - Fall Conference, 2020: Confronting Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Challenges in Times of Unprecedented Change
Keynote Speakers: Linda Lacewell, Superintendent, New York State Department of Financial Services; Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
2019-20 Events
- March 2020: The Advancement of Digital Assets and Addressing Financial Crime Risk
Keynote Speaker: Therese Chambers, Director, Retail and Regulatory Investigations, Financial Conduct Authority, United Kingdom - February 2020: New Tools to Combat Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- October 2019: #MeToo and Beyond: Lessons for Compliance, Investigations, and Governance
Keynote Speakers: Alessandra Biaggi, New York State Senator, District 34 (D-Bronx/Westchester); Rachael Denhollander, Lawyer and Sexual Abuse Activist - September 2019 Fireside Chat with new CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert
2018-19 Events
- July 2019: A New Model for Incentivizing Antitrust Compliance Programs
Keynote Speaker: Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice - June 2019: The New Face of AML Enforcement and Compliance
Keynote Speaker: Kenneth A. Blanco, Director, Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network - May 2019: Shifting Tides in Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement and Regulation
- April 2019: Conference on Negotiated Settlements in Bribery Cases: A Principled Approach
Keynote Speaker: Drago Kos, Chair, OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions - April 2019: Conference on Deterring Corporate Misconduct Through Negotiated Settlements: The Promise and Perils of Corporate Policing
Keynote Speakers: Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Drago Kos, Chair, OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions - December 2018: Conference on Cannabis - The Path to Regulation and Representation
- November 2018: Enforcement Trends at the CFTC
Keynote Speaker: Director James McDonald - October 2018: Conference on Achieving Effective Compliance: Assessment | Internal Reporting | Technology | Remedial Monitors
Keynote Speakers: Lisa Osofsky, Director, Serious Fraud Office, United Kingdom; Brian A. Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Geoffrey A. Berman, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, U.S. Department of Justice
2017-18 Events
- June 2018: ICOs and Cryptocurrency: Innovation Meets Regulation
Keynote Speakers: Lisa Osofsky, Director, Serious Fraud Office, United Kingdom; Brian A. Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Geoffrey A. Berman, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, U.S. Department of Justice - April 2018: Conference on Global Cyber Threats: Corporate and Governmental Challenges to Protecting Private Data
Keynote Speakers: John Demers, Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Jeh Charles Johnson, Partner, Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and former Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. - April 2018: Robert Stebbins, General Counsel, SEC and Michael Conley, Solicitor, SEC
- February 2018: From Successful Securities Analyst to Convicted Felon: The Shocking Inside Story of the Largest Insider Trading Investigation
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November 2017: Conference on 40 Years of the FCPA and 20 Years of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
Keynote Speakers: Kenneth A. Blanco, Acting Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice; Steven R. Peikin, Co-Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - October 2017: Conference on Deterring Corporate Crime: The Promise and Challenge of Multiple Enforcers
Keynote Speaker: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - September 2017: Perspectives on Enforcement: Self-Reporting and Cooperation at the CFTC
Keynote Speaker: James McDonald, Director of Enforcement for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission - September 2017: The Securities and Exchange Commission: Priorities Going Forward
Keynote Speakers: Jay Clayton, Stephanie Avakian, Steve Peikin, and Peter Driscoll
2016-17 Events
- May 2017: Preet Bharara: Reflections
- March 2017: Conference on the Expanding Scope of Individual Accountability for Corporate Misconduct
Keynote Speaker: Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, Financial Conduct Authority, U.K. - February 2017: Cybersecurity Risk and Regulation
- December 2016: Insider Trading Enforcement in the Wake of Salman
- November 2016: Wading Into the Gray: Compliance and Enforcement Lessons
- November 2016: SEC Chair Mary Jo White Addresses A New Model for SEC Enforcement
- October 2016: Compliance: New Risks, Challenges, and Approaches
Keynote Speaker: Maria T. Vullo, Superintendent, New York State Department of Financial Services
2015-16 Events
- June 2016: Law and Banking/Finance Conference 2016
- April 2016: Conference on Corporate and Individual Liability for Corporate Misconduct After the Yates Memo
Keynote Speaker: David Green, Director, Serious Fraud Office, United Kingdom - January 2016: Roundtable with Virginia Romano, Joyce Branda, and Sung-Hee Suh
- November 2015: Roundtable with Andrew Weissmann and Hui Chen
- September 2015: DAG Sally Quillian Yates Addresses Individual Liability for Corporate Wrongdoing
2014-15 Events
- May 2015: Conference on Achieving Safe and Responsible Enterprise
Keynote Speaker: Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law, Georgetown University School of Law
- April 2015: Conference on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing
Keynote Speakers: Leslie Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice; Honorable Jed Rakoff, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York - September 2014: Address by US Attorney General Eric Holder on Corporate Crime
2013-14 Events
- May 2014: Law & Banking/Finance Conference
Keynote Speaker: Mark J. Roe (Harvard)n - April 2014: Deterring Corporate Crime: Effective Principles for Corporate Enforcement
Keynote Speakers: Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York; Benjamin Lawksy, Superintendent of Financial Services, New York State Department of Financial Services
- January 2014: Business Beyond Borders: Law, Firms and Markets in the US and China
Keynote Speaker: Hu Ruyin, Chief Economist, Shanghai Stock Exchange - Milbank Tweed Forum: How Compliance Went from Ho-Hum to Hot
- Insider Trading: Hedge Funds in the Crosshairs