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Patrick McMahon is an associate and litigation attorney with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice.

The penalty is the largest ever imposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

An ex-American Realty Capital executive allegedly overstated a key accounting metric by roughly $13 million, according to the SEC and federal prosecutors.

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The funds will track indexes that draw on the expertise of the firm's quantitative research team.

From hiring sprees to accelerating software launches, companies are gearing up for the significant expenses and changes wrought by the new regulation.

Lutrin is a senior associate in Pillsbury’s executive compensation and benefits practice and is located in the New York office. Her practice focuses on the design, implementation and compliance of compensatory and benefits arrangements, such as equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives, and deferred compensation and employment, retention and severance agreements, with particular emphasis on compensation and benefits issues arising in the transactional context.

Briskin is senior counsel in Pillsbury’s health care and life sciences practice and is located in the Los Angeles office. He has 25 years of experience representing for-profit, nonprofit and government health care clients in organizational, regulatory, corporate and business matters, emphasizing health information exchange network development, hospital operations and hospital-physician alignment, managed health care and other health-plan and health-insurance issues. He represents hospitals and health systems, large medical groups, health information exchange organizations, managed care payers and others in regulatory compliance, licensing and contracting matters.

Richardson is a partner in the Pillsbury’s executive compensation and benefits practice and is located in the San Francisco office. She provides advice on all aspects of employee benefits, including: drafting, designing, and implementing, as well as handling operational, compliance, and strategic planning considerations related to tax-qualified plans such as 401(k) plans; non-qualified deferred compensation programs; welfare and health benefit plans encompassing wellness programs, reimbursement accounts, severance programs, cafeteria plans; fringe benefit plans; bonus programs; and advice related to the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, Affordable Care Act, WARN Act, HIPAA, and COBRA compliance issues.

Political discussions can be a kind of third rail, but planners can — and should — undercut the worry.