Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Newsletter February 12, 2021 Priorities and Risks – For Private Equity, Lingering Effects of COVID-19 Create a Mix of Opportunities and Risks Concern about the impact of government policies and regulations in response to COVID-19 is the No. 1 risk identified by directors and business executives across many industries. This insight is from our most recent top risk survey. Another survey we conducted last year, focused on technology risks, shows a deepening concern over cybersecurity and privacy issues, as well as regulatory compliance… Podcast October 5, 2020 Podcast: A Private Equity Perspective on Legal Services A Company in Your Portfolio Requires Legal Counsel – What Are Your Options? Protiviti Managing Director Rob Gould and Robert Half Managing Director Joel Wuesthoff discuss options for PE firms to access legal counsel and services. It is common for companies expanding through acquisitions to outgrow their in-house capabilities. This is often the case with legal services during acquisitions, when… Podcast May 28, 2021 Podcast | Key Challenges for Asset Management Firms in 2021 and Beyond In this podcast, Protiviti Managing Director Sean Gleason discusses key challenges for asset management firms. Insights paper October 6, 2023 Principles for Data Recovery From a Severe Cyber Scenario This paper is intended to prompt increased dialogue between financial institutions, trade associations and regulatory authorities on a rapidly evolving topic. It lays out a set of principles that could align regulators, the financial sector and all three lines of defense within an organisation to a cohesive view of resilience. A key objective of this paper is to highlight the challenges in… Insights paper September 22, 2023 Sustainability and Private Markets: A Structured Approach to Value Creation The ESG regulatory landscape is starting to form: In the public markets worldwide, companies are trying to determine how to respond to and incorporate stringent sustainability-related disclosure requirements from the EU. Meanwhile, the International Sustainability Standards Board has completed its work on a set of voluntary standards for public companies globally. In the U.S., the SEC is poised… Insights paper November 3, 2023 Risk Management | Time Preference and the Battle for Efficiency In a world that has been on a multidecade trajectory of ever-increasing globalisation and interconnectedness, society has become addicted to efficiency. Businesses have been centralising their processes, relying on their just-in-time supply chains and offshoring to shared service centers to cut costs. Insights paper January 8, 2024 How data sovereignty and data localisation impact your privacy programmes The concepts of data sovereignty and data localisation stem from a desire to keep data within a country’s borders for greater control. While the broad strokes of various privacy laws may be consistent across jurisdictions, governments will dictate the collection, storage and interpretation of their citizens’ data through constantly evolving privacy regulations.The legislative bodies that write… Survey January 3, 2023 ESG: A continental rift? Key findings from an Oxford-Protiviti Survey, Executive Outlook on the Future of ESG, 2032 and Beyond:Oxford-Protiviti executive survey with a 10-year outlook finds North American leaders less worried about environmental risk and ESG regulation, and less open to change.Executives in Europe and Asia-Pacific (APAC) perceive the stakes as higher and expect more change externally and within their… Whitepaper January 29, 2018 China’s Cybersecurity Law and its Impacts - Key Requirements Businesses Need to Understand to Ensure Compliance On June 1, 2017, China’s Cybersecurity Law went into effect, marking an important milestone in China’s efforts to create strict guidelines on cyber governance. Long before the Cybersecurity Law took effect, China had already made some efforts to strengthen information security. For example, a white paper titled The Internet in China, published in 2010, served as an early guide to China’s policy… Flash Report February 23, 2022 The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Its Potential Implications and Impact On February 21, after months of building up forces close to Ukraine’s borders, Vladimir Putin recognised the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine as “independent people’s republics.” He ordered the Russian Defense Ministry to deploy troops in those regions to “maintain the peace.” These actions commenced on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Crimea almost eight years to the day. The…