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SEC Withdraws Proposed Cyber-Related Rule Applicable to Broker-Dealers And Signals SolarWinds Settlement on the Horizon

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced the withdrawal of several Biden-era regulations, including a proposed rule that would have required a broad range of platforms and financial intermediaries (such...more

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Trump Administration SEC Withdraws Proposed Anti-Greenwashing Rule

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On June 17, the SEC officially withdrew a proposed rulemaking undertaken by the Biden Administration that sought to combat greenwashing in ESG (or similarly labeled funds). Specifically, the proposed rule would have...more

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SEC Withdraws Proposed ESG Disclosure and Shareholder Submission Rules

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In a significant but not unsurprising policy shift, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the withdrawal of proposed rules aimed at enhancing ESG disclosures and modifying shareholder proposal...more

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The impact of the outbound investment rules on LP trades

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The secondaries market continues to mature and evolve, offering limited partners (“LPs”) an essential tool for portfolio rebalancing, liquidity management and strategic realignment. However, the introduction of the U.S....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU

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The global fintech industry finds itself experiencing a sea change. The US seems on the cusp of regulatory changes, as the Securities and Exchange Commission shifts its attitude toward digital assets under a new...more

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SEC Commissioner Uyeda Suggests the SEC Will Not Rescind the Climate Disclosure Rule

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SEC Commissioner Uyeda, one of the Republican appointees to the Securities & Exchange Commission, recently stated (in remarks at the 2025 “SEC Speaks” Conference) that the SEC should not rescind the climate disclosure rule...more

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Eighth Circuit Holds SEC Climate Rule Litigation in Abeyance

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On April 24, 2025, the Eighth Circuit ordered that the litigation over the validity of the SEC's climate disclosure rule be “held in abeyance.” This order was in response to a submission by a coalition of blue states that...more

Baker Donelson

Red Tape or Green Future? Unpacking California's Climate Disclosure Laws and the Pushback

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As the federal government works to roll back climate regulations and climate-focused initiatives, states are developing avenues to fill in the gaps left behind. In 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The First Two Months of the SEC Under President Trump

As President Donald J. Trump wraps up his first two months in office, we review the changes that have taken place at the SEC. Prior to taking office, President Trump announced his intent to appoint Paul Atkins to replace Gary...more

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SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Activity Plummeted in Final Year of Gensler Administration

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) drastically reduced its accounting and auditing enforcement activity in fiscal year 2024, the final year of Gary Gensler’s administration, ending two consecutive years of...more

DLA Piper

SEC Climate Disclosure Rules: Four Potential Paths Under President Trump

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted landmark final rules (Climate Disclosure Rules, or Rules) in March 2024 intended to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures for publicly listed companies....more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

SEC Sued Over Newly Adopted Share Repurchase Rules

On Friday, May 12, 2023, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced that it had filed a lawsuit against the SEC to prevent implementation of the SEC’s new Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rules, which KMK has recently...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

New Federal “M&A Broker” Exemption From SEC Registration in Certain Securities Transactions

President Biden signed, on December 29, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, H.R. 2617 (the “2023 Act”). The 2023 Act amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") to exempt certain "M&A...more

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New Exemption for M&A Brokers from Federal Broker-Dealer Registration

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Signed into law by President Biden on December 29, 2022, new provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (H.R. 2617) (Exemption) exempt certain “M&A brokers” from having to register as broker-dealers with the U.S...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

How Antitrust Regulators and the SEC Are Advancing the Wider Biden Agenda

In this inaugural episode of the Informed Board podcast, Skadden partners Maria Raptis and Raquel Fox join our host Ann Beth Stebbins to discuss changing approaches to antitrust and securities regulation in Washington. They...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

[Event] Financial Services Conference - May 18th, Washington, DC

Please join us for the annual Nelson Mullins Financial Services Conference, which will feature a lineup of national speakers on the future of financial services....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

China Faces Existing and Expanded US Restrictions on Trade, Investment and Technology

Takeaways - Chinese investments requiring CFIUS review have declined as the U.S. scrutinizes those transactions aggressively, and rules governing interactions with “Chinese military-industrial complex companies” have been...more

BCLP

Have You Updated Your Approach to MD&A?

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The next Form 10-K filing for most companies will be their first filing required to comply with the revised Management’s Discussion and Analysis (Item 303 of Regulation S-K) requirements adopted by the SEC in November 2020....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 5.6.2021 | Top Story: Peloton Recalls All Treadmills Over Child-Safety Concerns

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Peloton has recalled all of its treadmill models—the Tread+ and Tread—“less than a month after it fought the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission as it warned that dozens of injuries and one death of a child had been...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Webinar] Hedge Fund Legal & Compliance Roundtable - March 3rd, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST

Join us for a virtual roundtable discussion regarding the changing securities regulatory and enforcement landscape. The election of Joe Biden and his subsequent nomination of Gary Gensler as the next chairman of the US...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Is Your Insurance Program Ready for the Biden Administration?

The Biden administration has hit the ground running with executive orders, regulatory and legislative priorities, and cabinet-level and other top posts being announced on a daily basis. Our public policy colleagues have been...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Why Private Capital and Crowdfunding Markets Should be Nervous about President Biden’s Regulatory Freeze

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A freeze on government regulation is generally perceived by most people as being a positive development for private enterprise.  Not necessarily so, however, when the regulation being frozen is itself a reform of preexisting...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.1.2020 | Top Story: GM Adjusts Deal with Nikola, Won’t Take Stock in E-Truckmaker

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Mere months after an announced major investment in start-up electric truck company Nikola (and the subsequent claims that the company had “exaggerated its capabilities), General Motors announced this week that it had...more

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