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

Michael J. Scanlon is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, Securities Enforcement, and Corporate Transactions Practice Groups, and has an extensive practice representing U.S. and foreign public company and audit firm clients on regulatory, corporate governance, and enforcement matters.

Mr. Scanlon advises corporate clients on SEC compliance and disclosure issues, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and corporate governance best practices, with a particular focus on financial reporting matters.  He frequently represents both accounting firms and public company clients on SEC and PCAOB accounting and auditing matters, including financial statement materiality and restatement issues, internal control issues, auditor independence, and other accounting-related disclosure issues.  Mr. Scanlon has represented large accounting firms in enforcement investigations conducted by the SEC, PCAOB, and state accountancy boards.  He also is experienced in conducting internal investigations involving accounting irregularities for management, audit committees, and other Board committees, and represents clients on these matters before the SEC.  Mr. Scanlon also represents several public company boards of directors and audit committees, as well as not-for-profit organizations, with respect to corporate governance and other compliance matters.

Mr. Scanlon has served as Chair of the ABA’s Law and Accounting Committee, Business Law Section, and as Chair of the DC Bar’s Law and Accounting Committee.  Mr. Scanlon currently serves as one of eight lawyers nationwide on the National Conference of Lawyers and Certified Public Accountants, a joint ABA-AICPA standing task force.  He also is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.

Mr. Scanlon is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and he is a member of the American Bar Association.  He served as a law clerk to Judge Richard W. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of International Trade from 1997 to 1999. He received his law degree cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1997, where he was a member of the Tax Lawyer. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College in 1992.