Hill Country Authors – Exploring the Challenges of a Green Transition with Tom Ortiz
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
AI Today in 5: August 5, 2025, The AI at the SEC Episode
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 18, 2025, The Don’t Alter Docs Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: New FCPA Enforcement Memo - What Does it Say?
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 17, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 13, 2025, The Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 22, 2025, The Upping Your Game Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 9, 2025, The Corruption at the DOJ Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 4, 2025, The Tariffs on Penguins Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 3, 2025, The Tribute to Ice Edition
Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month, we examine the following matters: • An SEC settlement with an ex-CEO...more
Private fund advisers continually balance their ongoing responsibility to ensure that the funds they advise comply with such funds’ governing documents and their responsibility to ensure their own compliance with applicable...more
On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari in the case of Navellier & Associates, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This decision effectively upholds the lower courts’ rulings,...more
Investment Advisers: Elevate your expertise! Join our exclusive April webinars and earn 1 CFP or IAR CE credit per course....more
Key Takeaways - FINRA’s 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report 2025-annual-regulatory-oversight-report.pdf included a focus on issues related to retirees and senior investors. - The Report provides guidance to...more
Florida recently implemented amendments to its Securities and Investor Protection Act (“Chapter 517”), bringing significant changes to the regulatory framework governing private placements, investment advisors, and exemptions...more
As in most industries, private fund sponsors are increasingly assessing and beginning to adopt artificial intelligence-powered tools to rapidly analyze large volumes of data, identify trends and patterns and to generally make...more
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced two enforcement actions related to the failed implementation of anti-money-laundering (AML) procedures. These charges reflect the SEC’s continued focus on...more
The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (the Staff) has published FAQs regarding amended Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Amended Names Rule). The new FAQs, published on January 8,...more
On December 20, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced charges against two private companies and one registered investment adviser (the “Parties”). These charges asserted that the Parties...more
The Staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission has issued FAQs regarding recent amendments to Rule 35d-1 (often referred to as the Names Rule) under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The amendments to the Names...more
The SEC’s Division of Examinations issued its 2025 Exam Priorities a few months ago. 2025-exam-priorities.pdf Many articles have been written about those priorities, but none—at least that I have seen—have addressed the focus...more
While most industry observers agree that the transition to the new presidential administration will bring with it a deregulatory agenda, members of Katten’s asset management regulatory team compiled their Top-5 Holiday Wish...more
On November 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or “Commission”) announced its enforcement results for the fiscal year (“FY”) 2024. Though the SEC filed only 583 total enforcement actions in FY 2024—a...more
In the second part of this legal update series, we summarize the key takeaways from the Division of Examinations’ (Division) 2025 priorities report released on October 21, 2024. The Division remains focused on mainstays like...more
Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Registered Investment Advisers; Broker Dealers; Compliance Officers; Boards of Directors - Quick Take: The SEC recently settled five separate enforcement proceedings...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations recently released its 2025 priorities. These identify several new or emerging areas of focus that could be precursors to enforcement actions, such as the use...more
Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Boards of Directors; Compliance Staff; Registered Investment Advisers - Quick Take: The SEC recently settled charges against a registered investment adviser (Adviser)...more
Our Investment Funds and White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Groups discuss what investment fund advisers and broker-dealers should know about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations’...more
Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Directors of Registered Investment Companies; Investment Advisers - Quick Take: The SEC recently charged a registered investment adviser for alleged misstatements and...more
Our Investment Funds and White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Groups examine a recent Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement order involving control of inside information....more
On October 21, 2024, the Division of Examinations (the “Division”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued its annual examination priorities for fiscal year 2025. As with its 2024 examination...more
On September 19, 2024, the SEC announced the settlement of administrative proceedings brought against a registered investment adviser for allegedly making misleading statements regarding how it managed investments for clients...more
The SEC has increased its enforcement efforts against firms that are registered as broker-dealers and/or investment advisers for alleged violations of federal securities laws involving “off-channel communications.” Such...more
Shares of SEC-registered closed-end funds (CEFs) have long held significant potential advantages for some investors. For example, unlike shares of mutual funds (which are open-end funds), CEF shares cannot be redeemed by the...more