Editor's Desk

There is a global movement afoot, on paper at least, to fight corruption. In this issue of Today’s General Counsel, Stephanie Yonekura and Rupinder Garcha outline corruption enforcement initiatives in the UK, the UN and China, and make some recommendations for compliance. Vanessa Schoenthaler discusses how the tougher insider trading rules that the SEC is proposing will affect compliance, and Kenji M. Price and Dean A. Pinkert write that normally quarrelsome federal departments and agencies have pledged to cooperate and collaborate with respect to certain high priority problems — climate change, economic espionage by China, and presumably corruption as well, because the Biden administration has announced ambitious goals in that area. They caution that this “whole of government” approach should be top of mind for corporate counsel. Additionally, in the world of antitrust, our senior columnist Jeffery Cross discusses the cites and footnotes that accompanied a key Supreme Court ruling.