Compliance and Litigation Risks: the SEC's Tougher Stance on Intermediary Institutions
February 18, 2020 | BY
Susan MokWilson Wei Huo of Zhong Lun Law Firm discusses the recent SEC case involving PwC and highlights the wider implications for intermediary institutions providing professional services in a tightened regulatory and enforcement regime in China's banking and financial sector
… auditors play a fundamental role in protecting the reliability and integrity of financial reporting and must ensure that non-audit services do not come at the cost of their independence on audits of public companies …