The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced charges and million-dollar penalties against four companies for allegedly making materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk and intrusions relating SolarWinds hack.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s new quality control standard, which will require all registered public accounting firms to identify specific risks to their practices and design a quality control system to monitor and resolve ineffective controls.

For a number of reasons, certain London-listed companies have been considering, and in some cases implementing, US listings, whether as an additional listing or by way of a unilateral move away from London. In addition to increasing access for US investors, some of these reasons relate to a perception of a valuation gap between New York and London in addition to what some perceive to be a wider and more receptive investor base in the US.