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Audit Committees and Financial Reporting 2016: Recent Developments and Current Issues

 
Author(s): John F. Olson, Catherine L. Bromilow, Linda L. Griggs
Practice Area: Accounting, Corporate & Securities
Published: Jun 2016
ISBN: 9781402427008
PLI Item #: 149729
CHB Spine #: B2255

Catherine Bromilow is a partner in PwC’s Governance Insights Center, which strives to strengthen the connection between directors, executive teams and investors by helping them navigate the evolving governance landscape.

With more than 20 years of experience at PwC, Catherine has focused solely on corporate governance.

Catherine has authored and contributed to many PwC governance publications, including the Risk Oversight Series, Going public? What you need to know about corporate governance and Director-shareholder engagement: getting it right. NACD Directorship magazine in 2019 named her for the thirteenth consecutive year as one of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance in the United States.

Catherine is a Certified Public Accountant (licensed in New Jersey) and a Chartered Professional Accountant, CPA, CA (from Canada). She holds a Master of Accounting degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada. While Catherine lives in New Jersey, she frequently travels and has met with board directors in over a dozen other countries, ranging from Brazil to Japan to South Africa.


Linda L. Griggs’s practice focuses on securities regulation and corporate law matters. In addition, she assists on internal investigations and SEC enforcement and litigation matters that involve financial reporting and accounting matters. She draws on her experience as a former chief counsel to the chief accountant of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to advise clients on issues related to financial reporting, accounting, and other disclosure requirements under securities laws and public and private securities offerings. Linda also advises clients on the fiduciary duties of directors and officers, as well as corporate governance matters.

Linda’s three-year term on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) ended on December 31, 2016. FASAC advises the Financial Accounting Standards Board on strategic issues, project priorities, and other matters that affect accounting standards. Previously, she served on the SEC's Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting and as a chair of the American Bar Association's Law and Accounting Committee.

In addition to her role as chief counsel to the chief accountant of the SEC, Linda worked as special counsel in the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC. Prior to that, she served as an attorney in the division's rule-writing office, and as a reviewer of registration statements, proxy statements, and reports filed by companies covered by federal securities laws.

Linda retired as a partner of Morgan Lewis as of September 30, 2016 and practices as a senior counsel of the firm.

Awards and Affiliations

  • Ranked, Securities: Regulation: Advisory, Nationwide, Chambers USA (2013–2018)
  • Recommended, Capital Markets: Debt Offerings, Equity Offerings, The Legal 500 US (2014–2016)
  • Top Woman Lawyer, Best Lawyers (2016–2017)
  • Recognized, Corporate Compliance Law, Washington, DC; Corporate Governance Law, Washington, DC; Securities/Capital Markets Law, Washington, DC; Securities Regulation, Washington, DC, The Best Lawyers in America (2016–2019)
  • Recognized, Who’s Who Legal (2018)
  • Member, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (10/2013 to 12/2016)
  • Member, SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting (8/2007–8/2008)
  • Member, American Bar Association, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and Law and Accounting Committee


John F. Olson is a founding partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Olson represents business organizations in corporate governance, corporate securities, corporate finance and merger and acquisition matters. He has frequently led legal teams conducting internal investigations for boards of directors and board committees.   

Mr. Olson is recognized as one of the nation's foremost authorities on securities, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions law. He led the Federal Regulation of Securities and Corporate Governance Committees of the ABA Business Law Section and is a longtime member of and advisor to the Section’s Corporate Laws Committee.  He has been ranked annually as one of the top securities regulation attorneys in the country by Chambers USA, as one of the top lawyers in corporate governance by Who’s Who Legal, and has been named by the International Financial Law Review as a Leading Lawyer in U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions.  In 2013 he was elected to the NACD Directorship Corporate Governance Hall of Fame.  He was the founding Chair of the American College of Governance Counsel.

The author and editor of many books and articles on legal issues, Mr. Olson is a Distinguished Visitor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches organizational governance and securities law courses.