Accounting Firm Quarterly Update, Q1 2026
Client Alert | May 19, 2026
We are pleased to provide you with Gibson Dunn’s Accounting Firm Quarterly Update for Q1 2026. The Update is available in .pdf format at the below link, and addresses news on the following topics that we hope are of interest to you:
- Former Gibson Dunn Partner David Woodcock Becomes SEC Enforcement Director
- SEC Proposes to Permit Semiannual Rather than Quarterly Reporting
- SEC Releases Fiscal Year 2025 Enforcement Results
- SEC Rescinds “Gag Rule” and Updates Enforcement Manual
- DOJ Releases New Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy
- Attorney General Issues Memorandum on National Fraud Enforcement Division
- Insights and Takeaways from SEC Speaks
- SEC Chairman Proposes Corporate Disclosure Reforms
- DOL Initiates Rulemaking Regarding Independent Contractors
- South Korea Formally Codifies Attorney-Client Privilege
- EU Narrows Corporate Sustainability Reporting Obligations
- Other Recent SEC and PCAOB Developments
Please let us know if there are topics that you would be interested in seeing covered in future editions of the Update.
Warmest regards,
Jim Farrell
Michael Scanlon
Chairs, Accounting Firm Advisory and Defense Practice Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
In addition to the practice group chairs, this update was prepared by David Ware, Monica Limeng Woolley, Hayden McGovern, Nicholas Whetstone, Ty Shockley, Jack Strachan, Garrick R. Donnelly, and Jimmy Scoville.
Accounting Firm Advisory and Defense Group Chairs:
Jim Farrell – Co-Chair, New York (+1 212-351-5326, jfarrell@gibsondunn.com)
Michael Scanlon – Co-Chair, Washington, D.C.(+1 202-887-3668, mscanlon@gibsondunn.com)
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