February 5, 2010 U.S. Senate Hearing On Foreign Corruption May Result In New Anti-Money Laundering Rules For Some U.S. Businesses
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February 3, 2010 New York Insurance Department Appoints New York Insurance Exchange Working Group
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February 2010 Recent Developments in Government Investigations of Financial Fraud
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January 29, 2010 SEC Imposes First Sanctions for Violations of Amended Rule 105
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January 29, 2010 Reminder: Annual Update of Form ADV and Annual Requirement To Confirm Status of Investors Under The New Issue Rule
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January 28, 2010 SEC Updates Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations For Non-GAAP Financial Measures
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January 27, 2010 Further SEC Action on Market Structure Issues
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January 25, 2010 FTC Decreases HSR Thresholds and Section 8 Thresholds
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January 20, 2010 SEC Brings FCPA Charges Based On Extorted Payments
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January 14, 2010 SEC Announces Measures To Encourage Cooperation and Names Specialized Unit Chiefs
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January 13, 2010 Delaware Chancery Court Ruling Opens The Door To State Fraud Claims Based on Schedule 13D and 13G Disclosures
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January 13, 2010 SEC Imposes Additional Corporate Governance and Compensation Disclosure Requirements
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January 12, 2010 IRS Establishes Corrections Program for Documentary Noncompliance under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code
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January 11, 2010 SEC Adopts Amendments to The Advisers Act Custody Rule
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January 5, 2010 Recent Enforcement Actions by U.K. Serious Fraud Office and Introduction of New U.K. Bribery Bill in Parliament Demonstrate Increased Focus on Corruption
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January 2010 A Bankruptcy Saga For The History Books
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January 2010 SEC, CFTC, FTC, and Other Financial Regulators Amend Their GLBA Rules and Adopt Model Privacy Form - Privacy & Data Security Law Journal
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December 31, 2009 SEC Proposes Amendment to Permit Pre-Filing Offerings By Underwriters Acting on Behalf of Well-Known Seasoned Issuers
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December 30, 2009 Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2009
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December 30, 2009 Tax Extenders Act of 2009: Impact on Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds and Investment Advisers
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December 29, 2009 Issues of Proof In Climate Change Litigation
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December 29, 2009 NAIC Highlights — Winter 2009 National Meeting
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December 24, 2009 SEC Issues Guidance on The Effective Dates of The New Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules
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December 23, 2009 Estate and Gift Tax In 2010
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December 18, 2009 SEC Adopts Amendments to The Advisers Act Custody Rule
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December 18, 2009 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Opinion Holding That Federal Law Trumps State Anti-Arbitration Insurance Statute
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December 17, 2009 SEC Finalizes Amendments To Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules
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December 14, 2009 Lender 'Collective Action' Doctrine Provokes Controversy
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December 2009 World Securities Law Report
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November 25, 2009 SEC Brings First Regulation G Enforcement Action
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November 25, 2009 SEC, CFTC, FTC, and Other Financial Regulators Amend Their GLBA Rules and Adopt Model Privacy Form
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November 25, 2009 Florida Bankruptcy Court Calls Into Question Enforceability of “Savings Clauses” In Upstream Guaranty Agreements
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November 25, 2009 Recent Developments In Government Investigations of Financial Fraud
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November 24, 2009 Businesses Planning on Giving Holiday Gifts to their Contacts at Certain U.S. Financial Firms Should be Aware of the Federal Bank Bribery Act
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November 24, 2009 SEC Proposes Rules To Increase Disclosure By “Dark Pools”
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November 19, 2009 CPO Alert: CFTC Adopts Amendments To Regulations Governing Periodic and Annual Financial Reports
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November 16, 2009 The Impact of New Iran Sanctions
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November 6, 2009 SEC Extends Compliance Date For New Regulation S-AM To June 1, 2010
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November 2, 2009 CFTC Begins Designating Significant Price Discovery Contracts
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November 2009 Federal District Court In Mark Cuban Case Issues Decision On Misappropriation Theory of Insider Trading
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October 29, 2009 Impact On Hedge Funds of Joint Bill of House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees On Offshore Taxation
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October 2009 The SEC’s Pay-To-Play Rule Proposal for Investment Advisers
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October 27, 2009 The House Financial Services Committee Approves a Bill to Require Many Advisers to Private Funds to Register With The Securities and Exchange Commission
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October 22, 2009 REIT Corporate Governance In The New Environment: New Regulatory Framework Could Spur Changes and Reignite Focus on Old Governance Issues
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October 9, 2009 NAIC Highlights — Fall 2009 National Meeting
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October 7, 2009 Key U.S. House of Representatives Committee Holds Hearing To Discuss Legislation That Would Require Registration For Certain U.S. And Non-U.S. Private Fund Managers
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October 7, 2009 NFA Adopts New Compliance Rules Governing Registered Commodity Pool Operators
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October 2009 The Future of Secondary Actor Liability Under Rule 10(B)-5 After Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
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October 2009 Neil Barofsky: Bringing Transparency To TARP
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October 2009 SEC Examinations and Enforcement in the Post-Madoff Era The SEC’s Inspector General’s Report Harshly Details the SEC’s Failure to Uncover the Madoff Scheme, Offers Road Map to Future Enforcement Policies
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October 2009 In re Flag Telecom: Additional Limitations on the Scope of Securities Class Actions at the Class Certification Stage
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September 30, 2009 New Iran Sanctions Could Target Insurers, Reinsurers of International Trade and Petroleum Industry Transactions
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September 28, 2009 Notable Deal Terms: Acquisition of Parallel Petroleum by Apollo Global Management, LLC
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September 28, 2009 New SEC Regulation S-AM to Limit Consumer Marketing By Registered Investment Advisers, Brokers, Dealers, Investment Companies and Registered Transfer Agents Based Upon Information Received From Their Affiliates
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September 24, 2009 “Just Vote No” Campaigns In Uncontested Director Elections —Renewed Vitality For The 2010 Proxy Season
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September 23, 2009 SEC Proposes to Ban Flash Trading
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September 23, 2009 Update: IRS Extends Deadline For Reporting Certain Offshore Accounts to October 15, 2009
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September 22, 2009 Implications of the ‘Bad Faith Filing’ Decision in GGP’s Bankruptcy Proceeding
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September 21, 2009 Recent Changes to the New York Power of Attorney Law
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September 9, 2009 IRS Provides Relief For “Check-The-Box” Elections That Are Up To Three Years Late
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September 3, 2009 NCLC Urges Supreme Court Not To Permit Litigation Explosion Concerning Mutual Fund Fees
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September 1, 2009 Shareholder Opportunities To Create Value At Underperforming Portfolio Companies
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September 2009 The Special Inspector General for TARP: The New Enforcer and the Next Wave of Investigations
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Fall 2009 Are Polymorphisms Like Thin Skulls?
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August 25, 2009 Implications of The Recent “Bad Faith Filing” Decision In General Growth Properties’ Bankruptcy Proceeding
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August 25, 2009 SEC Invokes Sarbanes-Oxley Clawback Provision Without Alleging Wrongdoing By Defendant
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August 24, 2009 Massachusetts Again Revises Its Data Security Regulations and Extends Compliance Deadline Until March 1, 2010
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August 21, 2009 Federal Circuit Holds That Method Claims Are Not Infringed When Devices For Practicing The Method Are Exported
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August 21, 2009 Internal Revenue Service Issues Procedural Guidance in Tax Relief in Debt Restructurings
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August 20, 2009 Comment Period for Proposed Amendments to Regulation SHO Re-Opened
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August 14, 2009 Avery Dennison Settles FCPA Charges Related To Conduct In China, Indonesia, and Pakistan
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August 14, 2009 Update: FBAR Deadline Postponed To June 30, 2010 For Certain Accounts
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August 13, 2009 Second Circuit Issues Ruling With Major Implications On Scope of Securities Class Actions
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August 12, 2009 SEC Proposes New Rule Intended To Address Pay-To-Play Activities By Investment Advisers
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August 10, 2009 SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami Addresses New Initiatives During His First 100 Days
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August 10, 2009 SEC Announces Settlement of Enforcement Actions Targeting “Naked” Short Sales
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August 10, 2009 Delaware Court of Chancery Refuses to Allow Private Equity Group to Deny Advancement and Indemnification Rights to Directors of Its Failed Portfolio Company
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August 6, 2009 SEC Adopts Final Rule 204 of Regulation SHO To Reduce Fails To Deliver
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August 4, 2009 Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Securities Fraud Claims Against Investment Adviser That Failed to Detect a Ponzi Scheme
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July 31, 2009 Implications of Proposed U.S. Financial Regulatory Reform for Non-U.S. Fund Managers
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July 29, 2009 SEC Ends Form SH Filing Requirement and Announces Increased Disclosure Concerning Short Sales
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July 21, 2009 Federal District Court In Mark Cuban Case Issues Decision on Misappropriation Theory of Insider Trading
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July 20, 2009 Investor Convicted On FCPA-Related Charges
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July 14, 2009 SEC Proposes Amendments To Executive Compensation Disclosure
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July 13, 2009 Proposed Changes To Article 9 of The Uniform Commercial Code Affecting Perfection of Security Interests Against Individuals
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July 10, 2009 Discretionary Voting By Brokers Prohibited In Director Elections
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July 10, 2009 SEC Proposes New Money Market Fund Rules — Significant Areas of Uncertainty Remain
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July 8, 2009 SEC Issues Guidance On “Say-On-Pay” Vote For TARP Recipients
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July 6, 2009 Court Toughens Application of Rule 8 Pleading Standards for Civil Cases
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July 2009 Failed Financial Institution Litigation: Remember When
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July 2009 TARP Enforcement: Latest Developments And Insights
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June 30, 2009 The SEC’s Proposed “Proxy Access” Rules: Boon To “Accidental” or “Reluctant” Activists?
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June 26, 2009 Obama Administration’s Plan For Financial Regulation Reform
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June 25, 2009 Update: IRS Issues More Foreign Financial Account Guidance, Including Amnesty For Certain Late Filers Until September 23, 2009
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June 25, 2009 President Obama’s Proposals For Regulation of the OTC Derivatives Market
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June 25, 2009 NAIC Highlights — Summer 2009 National Meeting
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June 23, 2009 SEC Proposes “Proxy Access” Rules To Facilitate Director Nominations By Shareholders
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June 19, 2009 Update: Foreign Financial Account Reports and Non-U.S. Investment Funds
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June 19, 2009 SEC Updates Guidance On Executive Compensation Disclosure
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June 19, 2009 President Obama’s Plan for Harmonization of Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser Regulation and Increased Federal Reserve Authority Over Clearing and Settlement Systems
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June 18, 2009 President Obama Announces Proposed New Oversight Requirements for Private Fund Managers
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June 16, 2009 SEC Finds Investment Adviser Overvalued Mortgage-Backed Securities and Engaged In Prohibited Cross-Trades
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June 11, 2009 The Case for the Automatic Multidistrict Litigation Stay
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June 11, 2009 Reminder: Foreign Financial Account Reports Are Due
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June 2009 Government Procurement of Software: Provident Policies for Ensuring the Greatest Possible Return on Investment in Troubled Economic Times
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May 29, 2009 Product-By-Process Claims Of Patents Are Limited To Products Made By The Recited Process
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May 28, 2009 New FINRA Rule On Member Private Offerings
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May 28, 2009 Supreme Court To Review “Inquiry Notice” Standard For Securities Fraud Actions
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May 27, 2009 SEC Proposes Changes To The Advisers Act Custody Rule To Increase Reliance On Auditors
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May 22, 2009 New IRS Rulings on Taxation of Investments in Life Insurance Contracts
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May 22, 2009 Current Efforts to Regulate the OTC Derivatives Market
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May 19, 2009 A Primer on Securities Litigation and Enforcement in an Economic Crisis
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May 19, 2009 The Special Inspector General For TARP: The New Enforcer and The Next Wave of Investigations
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May 18, 2009 Supreme Court Toughens and Broadens Application of Heightened Pleadings Standards
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May 14, 2009 CalPERS, Nation’s Largest Public Pension Fund, Adopts New Policy On Placement Agents
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May 14, 2009 Maryland Prohibits Minimum Resale Price Maintenance -- Other Jurisdictions May Follow
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May 8, 2009 SEC Action Indicates Increased Enforcement Investigations Into Hedge Funds and Derivatives
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May 6, 2009 New York Pension Fund Scandal Widens; New York State Attorney General Creates Task Force of 36 State Attorneys General To Investigate Pension Fund Abuse
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May 5, 2009 Status Update On Federal Government Financial Market Initiatives
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April 24, 2009 SEC Sanctions Investment Adviser For Misleading Investors About The Quality and Rigor of Its Due Diligence Process For Evaluating Hedge Fund Investments
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April 23, 2009 New York State Insurance Department Proposes Regulation To Establish Mandatory Catastrophe Reserve Funds
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April 21, 2009 Broker-Dealer Regulation S-P Violations Result In Monetary Penalty and Other Sanctions
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April 17, 2009 Eighth Circuit Provides For A Revised Standard For Review of Mutual Fund Advisory Fees
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April 15, 2009 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Decision Limiting Judicial Oversight of Merger Litigation
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April 13, 2009 Proposed Legislation Would Repeal Insurers’ Antitrust Exemption
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April 9, 2009 SEC Requests Comment On New Short Selling Price Tests
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April 9, 2009 Adapting Private Business To Climate Change
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April 9, 2009 U.S. Representative Sander Levin Reintroduces Legislation Taxing Carried Interests of Fund Managers at Ordinary Income Tax Rates and Restricting Use of Publicly Traded Investment Management Partnerships
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April 9, 2009 “Price-Squeeze” Claim Requires Antitrust Duty To Deal and Predatory Pricing
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April 3, 2009 New COBRA Legislation: Required Notice Deadline Approaches
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April 2, 2009 EPA To Require Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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April 2009 Forms Under Article 9 of the UCC, Second Edition
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April 1, 2009 Fair Value Accounting & Litigation: The Next Wave of Valuation Risk
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March 2009 Climate Change Under the Existing Clean Air Act: Developments from 2008 and the Transition to a New Administration
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March 2009 Second Circuit Keeps Bar High on Pleading Standards, Affirms Dismissal of Enron Case Against JP Morgan Chase
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March 27, 2009 House Financial Services Committee Approves Alternative Executive Compensation Legislation; Demands Company-Specific TARP Documents
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March 27, 2009 NAIC Highlights — Spring 2009 National Meeting
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March 27, 2009 The Delaware Supreme Court Reverses The Delaware Court of Chancery’s Decision In Ryan V. Lyondell
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March 24, 2009 Treasury Announces Public-Private Investment Program
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March 23, 2009 New IRS Releases On The Treatment of Investor Losses From Ponzi Schemes
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March 18, 2009 Southern District of New York Dismisses Securities Fraud Class Action Alleging Failure To Disclose Contingent Bankruptcy Planning
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March 12, 2009 Senate Finance Committee Releases Draft of Alternative Legislation Targeting Offshore Tax Haven Abuse
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March 5, 2009 Proposed Legislation Would Tax Many Offshore Hedge Funds and Certain Other Non-U.S. Corporations Managed in the United States
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March 4, 2009 President Obama Announces New Antitrust Leadership
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March 2, 2009 Hedge Fund Liquidations
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March 2, 2009 The Lehman Bankruptcy and Swap Lessons Learned. Negotiating An ISDA Master Agreement in Today’s Market
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March 2009 IP Issues in Quant Agreements
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February 27, 2009 Antitrust Violation Results in Four Year Jail Sentence
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February 27, 2009 Compensation Restrictions Under The Latest Stimulus Plan: More Questions Than Answers
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February 25, 2009 Delaware Chancery Court Refuses To Hold Citigroup’s Directors Personally Liable For Failing To Monitor Risks Associated With Citigroup’s Subprime Exposure
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February 23, 2009 Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility Update: What The Buy-Side Needs To Know
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February 20, 2009 Update: Expansion of Web Domains Could Hurt Brands
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February 20, 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Provides Significant Tax Relief In Debt Restructurings
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February 18, 2009 Twelve Rambus Patents Declared Unenforceable As Sanction For Document Destruction
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February 17, 2009 New Prospectus Disclosure Requirements; ICI Provides Additional Guidance on Use of Summary Prospectus
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February 13, 2009 Halliburton and KBR Entities To Pay $579 Million, The Largest Penalty Ever Paid By A U.S. Company In An FCPA Case
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February 13, 2009 Court Affirms That, With Safeguards, Competitors May Share Sensitive Due Diligence Information In Connection With A Proposed Merger
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