PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
For CFOs and senior finance leaders, the Law School for the CFO Virtual Chapter program explores the legal issues that directly impact financial risk, compliance, contracts, vendor management, and executive decision-making.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Data Privacy & Cybersecurity: Understand the legal and financial exposure associated with data breaches, privacy regulations, cybersecurity incidents, and disclosure obligations.
- SEC, Financial Reporting & CFO Accountability: Explore increasing regulatory scrutiny of financial reporting, accounting, disclosures, and potential fraud—and what it means for CFOs and Controllers.
- What the Election Means for Corporate Regulation: Examine how changes in federal and state leadership could affect corporate regulation, enforcement priorities, and the business environment in 2027.
- Working with Legal: Learn how to effectively engage with an internal legal department or outside law firm for the first time—including when to involve legal, how to frame questions, and how to build a productive partnership.
- Contract Law & Third-Party Risk: Develop a more detail-oriented approach to reviewing contracts and understand the provisions CFOs should pay particular attention to when managing third-party vendors, including liability, indemnification, insurance, data ownership, termination rights, and risk allocation.
- AI Contracts & Vendor Risk: Explore the unique legal and financial considerations of AI agreements, including data use, intellectual property, confidentiality, liability, security, and the risks created when an AI vendor relies on its own third-party providers or subprocessors.
SPEAKERS
Tim Newman | Litigation Partner | Haynes Boone
Tim Newman is a Chambers-ranked litigator who represents clients in government investigations, internal investigations, cybersecurity, and litigation involving privacy and technology. Tim’s practice sits at the intersection of government enforcement and technology-related risk, and he regularly handles matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice, Texas Attorney General, Texas State Securities Board, and other federal and state agencies. His work includes regulatory inquiries, civil investigative demands, internal reviews, cyber investigations, and litigation arising from cybersecurity incidents, privacy practices, digital assets, and other technology-driven
business disputes.
Tim works proactively with clients and uses technology to deliver practical, efficient advice in fast moving matters. Recent representations include defending a technology company responding to a Civil Investigative Demand from the Texas Attorney General’s Privacy Team, defending a seafood wholesaler under investigation by the DOJ for mislabeling seafood in violation of the Lacey Act, investigating cyberattacks involving extortion and data theft, and conducting internal investigations related to theft of trade secrets, Regulation FD compliance, corporate governance, and other topics.
Tim is also active in professional and community leadership. He serves as a trustee of the Dallas Bar Foundation, fellows chair of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation and inaugural chair of Haynes Boone’s HB Building Leaders Committee, which supports Haynes Boone attorneys in developing their skills in people, practice, and community leadership. He has previously served on the boards of the Dallas Bar Association, Capital for Kids CONNECT, the Texas Aggie Bar Association, the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers and the Texas Young Lawyers Association, which awarded him the Kirk Watson Excellence in Leadership Award in 2020.
In his spare time, Tim volunteers as a baseball coach and a Super Dad at his kids’ school.
Kurt Gottschall | Partner and Chair of the SEC Enforcement Defense Practice Group | Haynes Boone
Kurt Gottschall is a partner in Haynes Boone’s Denver office and chair of the firm’s nationwide SEC Enforcement Defense Practice Group. He represents investment advisers, broker-dealers, public companies, officers and directors, auditors, and individuals in SEC investigations and examinations, other government and financial-regulatory investigations, internal investigations and regulatory compliance matters.
A substantial part of Kurt’s practice is devoted to representing investment advisers and broker-dealers in investigations, examinations and regulatory compliance matters. He counsels these clients on issues involving disclosures, conflicts of interest, fees and expenses, marketing practices, custody, supervisory systems and compliance programs, and he regularly helps them navigate parallel inquiries by the SEC, FINRA, state securities regulators and other enforcement authorities.
Kurt joined the firm after serving as the Director of the SEC’s Denver Regional Office, where he managed more than 100 staff and oversaw all of the office’s enforcement investigations, litigation and examinations of SEC registrants in an eight-state region. Kurt’s tenure as Regional Director capped a 22 year career with the SEC, in which he previously led the SEC’s enforcement program in Denver and served as an Assistant Director in the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit.
Kurt also advises clients responding to investigations and examinations by other financial industry regulators and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), state securities regulators and attorneys general.
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