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SEC Speaks 2025: Key Takeaways from Division of Enforcement Panels

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The SEC’s Division of Enforcement intends to remain a “cop on the beat,” and will refocus on traditional core enforcement areas, such as insider trading, accounting and disclosure fraud, market manipulation, and breaches of...more

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SEC Charges Investment Advisers for Compliance Failures Relating to Cash Sweep Programs

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Quick Take: Indicative of a recent SEC focus on bank deposit sweep programs (BDSPs) offered to advisory clients through broker-dealers, the SEC recently settled charges against three dually registered investment advisers and...more

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2023 Securities Litigation Year in Review

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During 2023, securities lawsuit filings rose for the first time in four years. Settlements declined last year; there were nine mega-settlements of more than $100 million, including a $1 billion settlement. Case filings...more

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Second Circuit Rules that Syndicated Loans Are Not “Securities” Under State and Federal Law

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On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Kirschner unanimously  held that notes evidencing syndicated loans do not plausibly qualify as “securities” covered by state and federal securities laws...more

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