July 28, 2010 SEC Proposes Substantial Changes In Mutual Fund Distribution Regulatory Scheme
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July 28, 2010 The “Data Security Act of 2010” Would Establish New Federal Data Breach Notification and Data Security Requirements, and Would Broadly Preempt State Law
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July 27, 2010 Dodd-Frank Provisions Address Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance
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July 26, 2010 Key Provisions of The Dodd-Frank Act Broadly Implicate FCPA Compliance Issues, Reward Whistleblowing For Securities Law Violations, and Require Reports of Certain Foreign Payments
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July 25, 2010 Forum Non Conveniens Defeats Shareholder Litigation on Cross-Border Mergers
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July 23, 2010 The Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act: Implications For Derivatives Markets Participants
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July 23, 2010 The Dodd-Frank Act Overhauls The Regulation of Private Fund Managers and Other Money Managers
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July 22, 2010 Recent Case Interpreting Subordination Provisions Highlights Need For Careful Drafting
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July 21, 2010 Immediate Change In Accredited Investor Requirements In Dodd-Frank Act
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July 19, 2010 A Pyrrhic Victory For Preferred Stockholders
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July 2010 Capital Markets Germany Update
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July 16, 2010 SEC Issues Concept Release On Proxy Mechanics
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July 16, 2010 Court of Appeals of New York Confirms That Lenders Need Not Perform Independent Diligence In Connection With Representations Given In A Credit Agreement
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July 15, 2010 Three Years Later: The New Normal in Acquisition Finance Commitments
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July 2010 Financial Reporting After The Subprime Crisis: New Challenges For Audit Committees – Part I
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July 13, 2010 New U.S. Sanctions Law Targets Foreign Support For Iran’s Petroleum Industry
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2010/11 Data Security: Breach Notification
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July 9, 2010 SEC Adopts New Rule Designed to Deter Pay-To-Play Activities by Investment Advisers
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July 1, 2010 National Futures Association Petitions Commodity Futures Trading Commission to Restore Restrictions on Mutual Funds that Trade Commodities
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July 1, 2010 In Re Cadbury and In Re Alcon: Forum Non Conveniens Defeats U.S. Shareholder Litigation Arising From Cross-Border Mergers
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July 1, 2010 Supreme Court’s Split Decision In Bilski Upholds The General Patentability of Business Methods and Rejects The Machine-Or-Transformation Test as The Sole Framework For Identifying Patentable Processes
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June 30, 2010 New York State Considering Taxing Non-Resident Fund Managers
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June 29, 2010 Supreme Court Significantly Narrows Scope of Honest Services Fraud Statute In Case Involving Willkie Client
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June 28, 2010 Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision on Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Securities Laws
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June 25, 2010 “Special Assessment” on Certain “Financial Companies That Manage Hedge Funds” to be Part of New Financial Reform Law
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June 23, 2010 German Authorities Issue Privacy Decision Clarifying Due Diligence That Must Be Conducted on Companies Using The Safe Harbor Framework to Transfer Personal Data to the United States
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June 17, 2010 German Authorities Issue Privacy Decision Clarifying Due Diligence That Must Be Conducted On Companies Using The Safe Harbor Framework To Transfer Personal Data To The U.S.
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June 15, 2010 The Federal Circuit Clarifies Burden of Proof For Rebutting Intent to Deceive in False Patent Marking Cases
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June 10, 2010 Reminder: Certain Foreign Financial Account Reports For 2009 Are Due By June 30, 2010
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June 10, 2010 SEC Proposes Consolidated Audit Trail For Trading of Certain Equity Securities
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June 2010 United Kingdom Enacts Bribery Act 2010
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June 2010 Supreme Court Upholds Gartenberg Standard
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June 2010 Overview of The NAIC’S Solvency Modernization Initiative
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June 3, 2010 Congress Is on Track To Pass a Comprehensive Financial Services Regulatory Overhaul Bill In 2010 Resulting In Increased Regulation of Private Fund Managers
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May 27, 2010 New Merger Guidelines Could Increase Agency Enforcement Discretion
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May 25, 2010 Financial Reform Bill Further Regulates The Payment and Disclosure of Executive Compensation by Public Companies
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May 25, 2010 Taxation of Carried Interest of Fund Managers at Ordinary Income Tax Rates Under Proposed American Jobs and Tax Closing Loopholes Act of 2010
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May 20, 2010 Draft Federal Privacy Bill Would Dramatically Affect How a Wide Range of Companies Collect, Use, and Disclose Certain Information About Individuals, Both Online and Offline
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May 19, 2010 New Federal and State Guidance Call For Climate Change Impact Reviews For Development Projects
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May 2010 Top Google Executives Found Criminally Liable For Privacy Violations
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May 13, 2010 Court of Appeals to Consider Fiduciary Duties of Insurance Brokers
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May 3, 2010 Warning to Preferred Stock Investors from Delaware Courts
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April 30, 2010 The Federal Circuit Interprets The False Patent Marking Statute
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April 23, 2010 Princo Corp. v. ITC
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April 22, 2010 SEC Proposes Large Trader Reporting System
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April 21, 2010 SEC, CFTC, FTC, and Other Financial Regulators Release Model Consumer Privacy Notice Online Form Builder
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April 20, 2010 Important Decision In Credit Default Swap Litigation
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April 19, 2010 United Kingdom Enacts Bribery Act 2010
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April 19, 2010 NAIC Highlights – Spring 2010 National Meeting
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April 15, 2010 First Quarter of 2010 Shows Sharp Increase In FCPA Enforcement
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April 14, 2010 FINRA Fines Broker-Dealer For Its Failure To Protect Confidential Customer Information From Hackers
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April 9, 2010 Financial Reporting After the Subprime Crisis: New Challenges For Audit Committees
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April 8, 2010 FTC Probe Discovers Widespread Data Breach Involving Peer To Peer Sharing and Provides Guidance to Businesses on Protecting Sensitive Information
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April 5, 2010 A New Equitable Subordination/Lender Liability Lawsuit: Tribune Company Bondholder Group Sues Banks Over Failed Leveraged Buyout
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April 2, 2010 Supreme Court Upholds Gartenberg Standard
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April 1, 2010 Supreme Court Emphasizes Role of Deference to Independent Directors in Mutual Fund Fee Litigation
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April 2010 SEC Adopts Money Market Fund Reforms
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April 1, 2010 Drug Approval Pathway Established For Biosimilar Drugs
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March 31, 2010 Recent Developments In F-Cubed Securities Class Actions
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March 29, 2010 SEC Push for Broader 'Primary' Liabilty Could Be Boon to Plaintiffs, Lawyers Say
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March 25, 2010 HIRE Act’s Effects on Investment Funds
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March 24, 2010 Federal Circuit Holds En Banc Rehearing of Patent Misuse Case Affecting Patent Pools and Other Joint Ventures
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March 24, 2010 CPO Quarterly Reporting To Begin In May 2010
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March 23, 2010 Implications of Senator Dodd’s Financial Reform Proposal For Private Fund Managers and Other Money Managers
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March 19, 2010 RiskMetrics Group Introduces Governance Risk Indicators (GRId)
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March 19, 2010 HIRE Act Provides Employers With Tax Incentives to Hire Unemployed Workers
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March 19, 2010 TARP Fraud: A New Federal Crime Is Born?
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March 18, 2010 SEC Adopts Short Sale Price Test
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March 17, 2010 The Board and Risk Management
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March 15, 2010 Massachusetts Data Security Regulations Effective On March 1, 2010
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March 12, 2010 First Circuit Rejects Primary Rule 10b-5 Liability for Underwriters
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March 12, 2010 The First Circuit Rejects Primary Rule 10b-5 Liability For Underwriters
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March 2010 New Developments In Securities Litigation
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March 10, 2010 Congress Targets The Business Of Health Insurance For Increased Antitrust Scrutiny
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March 4, 2010 Germany’s Highest Court Voids Data Retention Law on Privacy Grounds
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March 3, 2010 Treasury Department Announces Delay of Certain FBAR Requirements and Proposes New FBAR Regulations
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March 2, 2010 SEC Adopts Money Market Fund Reform Rules
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March 2, 2010 Top Google Executives Found Criminally Liable for Privacy Violations
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March 2010 Fraud Law Developments
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March 1, 2010 An Expert's View: Developments in Mandatory Prepayment Provisions
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March 2010 SEC Announces Measures to Encourage Cooperation and Names Specialized Unit Chiefs
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March 2010 Cloud Computing Understanding The Issues
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February 25, 2010 New York Appellate Court Provides Guidance On When A Financing Term Sheet Is Not A Binding Agreement To Lend
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February 24, 2010 SEC Adopts Short Sale Price Test
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February 24, 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Adopts “Nerve Center” Test For Diversity Jurisdiction
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February 22, 2010 New International List of 28 Countries With Deficient Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Regimes Should Prompt Compliance Reviews
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February 18, 2010 Registered Funds Face New Disclosure Obligations Under Amended SEC Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules
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February 17, 2010 CFTC Proposes Speculative Position Limits For Referenced Energy Contracts
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February 16, 2010 SEC Proposes Amendments To Issuer Share Repurchase Safe Harbor
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February 12, 2010 BAE Reaches Global Settlement With U.S. and U.K. Authorities, Agreeing To Pay $447 Million In Fines and Ending Five Years of Bribery Investigations
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February 10, 2010 New SEC Climate Change Disclosure Obligations For All Filers Effective Immediately
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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 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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