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
Great Women in Compliance: The Future of Enforcement with Jennifer Lee
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
Navigating 2025: The SEC's Evolving Role in Cryptocurrency Enforcement — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
The SEC's Reach Beyond Publicly Traded Companies
Since the enactment of the Investment Company Act 85 years ago, the asset management industry has grown from $2 billion in assets to more than $39 trillion in assets. Under existing Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)...more
On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that will determine whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (ICA) creates a private right of action for shareholders of registered investment...more
June 18, 2025 On June 12, 2025, various divisions within the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) formally withdrew a number of pending proposed rules which would have affected investment advisers, investment companies,...more
Key Points - - The SEC’s Crypto Task Force acknowledges past hostility toward digital assets and aims to create more sensible regulations. - Tokenized securities face complex regulatory challenges, including compliance...more
On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a notice indicating its intent to grant Franklin Square’s (“FS”) exemptive relief application (the “FS Application”) permitting certain business...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management (SEC) recently issued public notices indicating its imminent decision to grant several applications for a new form of exemptive relief for certain...more
On April 3, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an exemptive application1 that allows for a more flexible co-investment transaction approval process. This new relief simplifies the process followed by...more
On March 14, 2025, the SEC announced a six-month extension of the compliance dates for its previously adopted amendments to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (known as the Names Rule). The compliance date is...more
On 14 March 2025, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) extended the compliance dates for the amendments to Rule 35d-1 (Amended Names Rule) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (1940 Act), by six months....more
Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Investment Advisers; Boards of Directors; Compliance Officers - Quick Take: The SEC recently announced a six-month extension of the compliance dates for amendments to...more
On March 4, 2025, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to express its support of a request for co-investment exemptive relief by an applicant and urge that the SEC grant...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff issued updated FAQs regarding Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Names Rule”) on January 8, 2025. These updates reflect amendments that were adopted...more
On January 8, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Investment Management (Division) issued responses to certain frequently asked questions (FAQ) to the SEC's 2023 adoption of amendments...more
On January 8, 2025, the staff (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Investment Management (IM) released the 2025 Names Rule FAQs (2025 FAQs) related to the amendment of Rule 35d-1 (Names Rule)...more
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
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
On November 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, and collectively with DOJ, the Government) brought parallel criminal and civil enforcement actions against the...more
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations (the “Division”) released its 2025 examination priorities, an annual publication by the Division designed to make the public aware of issues, areas,...more
On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, major media outlets announced Donald J. Trump as the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This alert discusses the potential impact of Mr. Trump’s election on the U.S. Securities and...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
On August 28, 2024, the SEC adopted amendments to reporting requirements on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and issued guidance on open-end fund liquidity risk management programs. Notably, the SEC declined to adopt the proposed...more
The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it will host a compliance outreach program on November 7, 2024 (see the program’s agenda) on Advisers Act and Investment Company Act related topics. The agenda...more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), by a 3-2 vote, recently adopted amendments to registered fund reporting requirements on Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN and provided guidance on open-end funds’ liquidity risk...more
On August 21, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a rule (Final Rule) that will increase the threshold for what is considered a “qualifying venture capital fund” from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000....more