Once upon a time, in 1994, when I was a young lawyer in the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (Division), Office of Chief Counsel, we received a request to modify a previously granted but totally impractical no-action...more
On May 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman and the director of the Office of Municipal Securities issued a statement stressing the importance of “robust, timely, and accurate” municipal issuer disclosures in...more
At the recent Columbia Law School Conference, “Hot Topics: Leading Current Issues in Securities Regulation and Enforcement,” SEC Commissioner Kara M. Stein’s keynote address focused on a number of transparency and disclosure...more