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Situation Overview: The Administration, Congress, and regulators continue to advance efforts to establish legal and regulatory clarity for digital assets in the United States. The recent passage of the Guiding and...more
The Senate Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over the SEC, released its long-anticipated digital asset market structure legislation, titled the “Responsible Financial Innovation Act of 2025.” The Committee’s draft...more
The Senate passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support, marking a significant step forward in advancing stablecoin legislation. Legislative action on stablecoins will now move to the House of Representatives. The House...more
Recent legislative activity continued to shape the trajectory of U.S. crypto policy, even as Congress is out of session this week. Lawmakers advanced several financial reform bills before the recess, while federal regulators...more
On May 5, 2025, the Republican committee chairs in the US House of Representatives with jurisdiction over digital asset legislation released a digital asset market structure discussion draft bill (the “Discussion Draft”). The...more
The House Financial Services Committee voted to include a provision in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that would abolish the PCAOB. The proposal would reassign PCAOB functions to the SEC....more
On 4 April 2025, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (Division) issued a statement (Statement) providing that the offer and sale of certain “Covered Stablecoins” do not involve the offer and sale of securities within...more
Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more
On July 12, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic senator from New York who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, and Senator Cynthia Lummis, a Republican senator from Wyoming who sits on the Agriculture Committee, joined...more
This is the eighth part in our 2023 series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Up next: anti-corruption. The tumultuous crypto events of 2022, combined with the heightened agency and executive...more
On December 14, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) introduced in the U.S. Senate a new bipartisan bill, titled "Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2022" (the “Bill”), intended to curb the...more
As more market participants, from consumers to major financial institutions and central banks of various countries, become active in the digital asset space, the U.S. regulators are ramping up their oversight activity related...more
Last month, a bipartisan pair of senators released the first comprehensive cryptocurrency bill that, though it is unlikely to become law, will frame how Congress discusses future legislation. The sweeping draft from Senators...more
An ambitious proposal could bring digital assets into the mainstream regulatory fold. During an eventful summer for the digital assets industry, it may have been easy to miss US Representative Don Beyer’s introduction of the...more
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. The big news in cannabis this week comes from New Mexico. Legislation introduced last Thursday would legalize...more
This past week, the House Financial Services Committee considered and passed a few bills that would, if passed by the House, result in changes to the securities laws. ...more
The House Financial Services Committee recently passed H.R. 1815, which is the Securities and Exchange Commission Disclosure Effectiveness Testing Act. ...more
There’s falling from grace, and then there’s Elizabeth Holmes. Once compared glowingly to Steve Jobs, Holmes’ well-documented Theranos ills (including exaggerated and faked blood-test results) have landed her with SEC...more
Since 2014, many private company mergers and acquisitions intermediaries have chosen not to register as broker-dealers. That’s because a 2014 SEC no-action letter took the position that intermediaries that limited their...more
Even before President Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton as the next Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”), signs have been appearing that changes are afoot within the Division of...more
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) unveiled details of the Financial CHOICE Act – the Republican plan to replace the Dodd-Frank Act and promote economic growth. CHOICE stands for Creating Hope...more