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Amy Gordon

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Amy Gordon is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Product Liability group. Amy’s practice focuses on a wide range of complex civil and commercial litigation matters, including product liability defense, class action defense, privacy and data security, and telecommunications disputes. She is also a member of the litigation team representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy proceedings.

In addition, Amy advises clients across industries on economic sanctions and asset forfeiture related issues.

Amy earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a Cybersecurity Graduate Fellow and served as Chief Notes Editor for The Review of Litigation.  During law school, Amy interned for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

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Shining a Light on the Corporate Transparency Act: FinCEN’s Rules for Beneficial Ownership Reporting

By Andrew Bettwy, Ryan P. Blaney, Stephanie Heilborn, Jeffrey A. Horwitz, Seetha Ramachandran, Yuval Tal, Elanit Snow, Amy Gordon and Portia Proctor on Posted in Corporate Governance, Financial Services, Securities Law, Securities Litigation, White Collar
On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 to “better enable critical national security, intelligence, and law enforcement efforts to counter money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity.” FinCEN issued the final rule on Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements on September … Continue Reading

SEC Adopts Long-Awaited Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rule

By Julia Alonzo and Amy Gordon on Posted in ERISA, Securities Law, Securities Regulatory
On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission, in a 3-2 vote, adopted a new disclosure rule implementing the Dodd-Frank Act’s requirement that public companies disclose the relationship between compensation paid to executives and the company’s financial performance. SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s stated purpose of the new rule, commonly known as the “pay versus … Continue Reading

SEC Division of Examinations Announces 2022 Examination Priorities

By Julia Alonzo and Amy Gordon on Posted in Hedge Funds, Private Investment Funds, Securities Law
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations recently announced its examination priorities for fiscal year 2022: Private Funds; Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Investing; Standards of Conduct; Information Security and Operational Resiliency; and Emerging Technologies and Crypto-Assets.  The Division seeks to provide investors and registrants with transparency into these areas, and that it expects registrants to … Continue Reading

SEC Proposes Broad New Climate Change Disclosure Requirements

By Julia Alonzo, Amy Gordon, Steven R. Burwell, Peter Castellon, Michael Choate, Michael E. Ellis, Steven L. Lichtenfeld, Ben Orlanski, Louis Rambo, William J. Tuttle and Frank Zarb on Posted in Corporate Governance, ESG, SEC Enforcement
Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a set of sweeping new rules requiring public companies to disclose climate-related risks in their registration statements and periodic reports.  Under the proposed rules, public companies would have to disclose the actual and potential impacts of climate change on their business, management and governance processes to … Continue Reading

Securities Litigation: An Emerging Strategy to Hold Companies Accountable for Privacy Protections

By Amy Gordon on Posted in SEC Enforcement, Securities Law, Securities Litigation
A California federal judge rejected Zoom Video Communications, Inc.’s motion to dismiss securities fraud claims against it, and its CEO and CFO, for misrepresenting Zoom’s privacy protections. Although there have been a number of cases challenging inadequate privacy protections on consumer protection grounds in recent years, this decision shifts the spotlight to an additional front … Continue Reading
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