Extraterritorial Reach of the US Financial Laws
Extraterritorial Reach of the US Financial Laws
This chapter focuses on the international reach and jurisdiction of US Financial Laws with emphasis on anti-fraud provisions in private litigation. It analyses past cases that involve extraterritorial corporations outside the United States, such as the landmark Morrison v. Australia Bank Ltd. It analyses Morrison and describes how it extinguished two species of securities class-action claims that proliferated in preceding years: foreign-cubed claims and foreign-squared claims. The chapter also examines the process of inspecting foreigners by auditors of foreign issuers listed in the United States by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the extraterritorial scope of the whistleblower provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Furthermore, it looks into the jurisdiction of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which was enacted to prohibit the widespread bribery of foreign officials by US corporations.
Keywords: extraterritorial jurisdiction, US Financial Laws, anti-fraud, private litigation, Morrison v. Australian Bank Ltd., securities class-action claims, foreign-cubed, foreign-squared, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
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