Sunrise Provides Status Report on Special Independent Committee Investigation; Provides Updates on Management's Internal Control Review Efforts and on Legal P...( MCLEAN Va. Sept. 28 /- Sunrise Se...),Health

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (NYSE: SRZ) today announced an update on the status of the independent investigation being conducted by the Special Independent Committee of its Board of Directors, provided an update on management's Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 internal control review efforts and provided an update on legal proceedings.

Special Independent Committee Investigation

As previously disclosed, in December 2006, Sunrise's Board of Directors established a Special Independent Committee to review certain allegations made by the Service Employees International Union ("SEIU") that questioned the timing of certain stock option grants to Sunrise directors and officers over a period of time, and stock sales by certain directors in the months prior to the May 2006 announcement of the Company's accounting review. As also previously disclosed, in March 2007, Sunrise's Board of Directors expanded the scope of the Special Independent Committee's mandate to include the review of facts and circumstances relating to the historical accounting treatment of certain categories of transactions in the pending restatement, and to develop recommendations regarding any remedial measures, including those pertaining to internal controls and processes over financial reporting, that it may determine to be warranted. The Special Independent Committee, advised by its independent counsel, WilmerHale, has been conducting that investigation. In support of the investigation, WilmerHale engaged FTI Consulting, Inc. and Huron Consulting Group, forensic accounting firms, to provide technical accounting guidance and analysis, as well as to assist with document collection and review, interview su
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