A New Brand of Uncertainty? — PE Pathways Podcast
Investing Charity and Foundation Assets in Turbulent Times With Jennifer Nelson
Driven by Data: Auto Finance Trends Uncovered - Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Debt and Lending Markets: Current Trends Impacting Private Equity Sponsors — PE Pathways Podcast
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Sports
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 47 - Fireside Chat With Bill Baroni and Jesse Eisinger
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Makes it a Securities Offering?
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Technical Provisions
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 34 - A Conversation With Jesse Eisinger, Author of 'The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives'
Navigating Facility Relocation: Legal and Practical Considerations — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 29 - A Global Perspective on the Economic Responses to COVID-19
The Standard Formula Podcast | Developments on the Horizon for the UK Change-in-Control Regulatory Regime
La Financiación de Proyectos de Infraestructura
Breaking (Down) the Debt Ceiling
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Private Equity Perspectives: Episode Three – Interest Rates and PE Deals
Private Equity Perspectives: Episode Two – The Shifting Market for Buyers
Top Employment Law Considerations for Startups, with Ashley K Pittman
Podcast: DeFi and Tax: How are digital currencies treated by the IRS? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 47]
Two leading consulting and expert firms – Cornerstone Research and NERA – recently issued their midyear reports on securities class actions. Both reports noted that the number of filings in H1 2025 remained steady, but...more
Our second quarter 2025 corporate venture capital (CVC) survey indicators continue to show challenging market conditions. However, valuations are on the rise in surveyed transactions. In this survey, we track investment...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision to restart the open banking rulemaking process; the UK FCA's publication of a policy statement with final...more
In a strident judgment that expresses “concerns about the effectiveness of the criminal appeal system in England and Wales in confronting legal error”, the UK Supreme Court has unanimously allowed appeals by Tom Hayes and...more
Life sciences capital markets in 2025 have been a mixed bag—some rays of light peeking through, but still, plenty of clouds for early-stage companies hoping to tap the public markets. After a long IPO drought, 2024 brought a...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an updated registration guide (dated 14 August), outlining the procedures and expectations for entities seeking registration, authorisation, recognition, or...more
On June 20, 2025, Texas passed SB 2337, a first-of-its-kind regulation of proxy advisors such as ISS and Glass Lewis. SB 2337 requires proxy advisors to, among other things, disclose when their recommendations are based, in...more
US take-private transactions have provided a reliable channel for PE capital deployment in a volatile buyout market where early momentum in 2025 cooled in the second quarter....more
At the beginning of July, SEC Chair Paul Atkins painted a picture: tokenization was the “next step” in the evolution of securities. Generally, tokenization entails creating a digital representation of a real-world asset —...more
The European Commission (EC) has published a draft delegated regulation amending Delegated Regulation 2017/567 as regards the obligation to provide market data on a reasonable commercial basis, the determination of what...more
Direct ownership of crypto-assets or mere exposure to the value of crypto-assets is an investment decision, with both investment methods requiring specific approaches to mitigate and manage risks effectively....more
Last week, the SEC announced it has a new statistics and data visualization page that is pretty cool. The information is “interactive,” presented in graphics and also can be downloaded....more
On August 1, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced an initiative aimed at advancing the U.S.’s position in the global cryptocurrency landscape. Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham revealed the commencement of...more
After a bumpy start to the second quarter, when tariff announcements inhibited issuance, US high yield bond activity rallied strongly, demonstrating the market’s resilience and maturity....more
The significance of this topic for many clients arises because the UK is home to some of the largest and most significant commodity derivative markets in the world. They serve the risk management needs of a diverse group of...more
On August 6, 2025, the Staff of the Division of Trading and Markets of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released an updated set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) addressing the application of Rule 15c3-3a to...more
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched a new statistics and data visualization page that includes statistics and interactive graphics on key elements of the capital markets, based on the following...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its final report containing final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on the prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures under the Capital Requirements Regulation...more
Cornerstone Research recently published its 2025 midyear assessment of securities class action filings. Compared to the second half of 2024, securities class action filings in the first half of 2025 decreased slightly from...more
Convertible bond issuance surged through the first half of 2025, presenting issuers with a golden opportunity to raise capital on highly attractive terms - There has rarely been a better time for companies to raise capital...more
On July 21, 2025, in Commodity Futures Trading Commission et al. v. TMTE Inc et al., a Texas district court denied summary judgment to both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and two individual defendants in a...more
In July 2025, there were five Rule 2.7 announcements made across the UK public M&A market and three further possible offers announced....more
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published a transparency draft of its Statement of Good Practice (SoGP) on Unauthorised Trading Frameworks for consultation. This draft, which builds on FMSB's prior work on...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a press release to confirm that, effective from October, the EU will transition from the current double volume cap (DVC) mechanism to a single volume cap...more
Private equity (PE) sponsors are increasingly seeking to broaden their investor base by offering retail access to traditionally institutional-only funds. Recently, statements by the SEC indicated the SEC staff will no longer...more