Daily Compliance News: July 17, 2025, The COSO Yanked Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
Daily Compliance News: June 25, 2025, The PCAOB Elimination Hits Roadblock Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 71 – Crypto Fault Lines: Stablecoins, Meme Coins & the Fight for Clarity PLUS: Sanctions, Shell Companies & Fragmented Global Trade
Everything Compliance: Episode 155, To Tesla and Beyond Edition
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants - Episode 155
Daily Compliance News: June 2, 2025, The Unintended Consequence Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: How Should Crypto Companies Be Thinking About New Laws?
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What are the Different Ways Securities Can Be Offered and Sold? (Part 2)
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants - Episode 154
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 52 – The Big Jet Plane Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 13, 2025, The Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What are the Different Ways Securities Can Be Offered and Sold? (Part 1)
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 49 - The Depression Episode
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
On July 22, 2025, the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) released reasons for its decision to cease-trade a shareholder rights plan of Greenfire Resources Ltd. The rights plan had been adopted in response to the announcement...more
WHAT ARE THE KEY DRIVERS FOR REFORM? The UK Treasury ("HMT") noted the following as drivers for reform: A key challenge for private companies is that, at early stages in their growth, there are no standardised ways...more
Following the substantial feedback provided in response to ASIC’s discussion paper, ‘Australia’s evolving capital markets: A discussion paper on the dynamics between public and private markets’ (Discussion Paper) on 10 June...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement PS25/6, accompanied by a press release, setting out the final rules for the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES)...more
The Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (Exemption from Stamp Duties) Regulations 2025 (SI 2025/666) have been published, alongside an explanatory memorandum. The regulations exempt the transfer of a...more
In this edition of UK Equity Capital Markets Insights, we report on the coming into force of regulations to create the PISCES secondary trading market and the launch of a commission to evaluate the ongoing role of the...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published two new webpages on the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange Systems (PISCES) sandbox, a new type of trading platform designed to enable intermittent...more
Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue we discuss...more
In recent years, private non-bank lending to private equity-owned, small- and middle-market companies has increased significantly. According to a report from the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) detailing...more
Federal Securities Lawyer and Founding Attorney of Oberheiden P.C., Dr. Nick Oberheiden, answers FAQs about private placements under Regulation D....more
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission ("ASIC") is increasing its focus on private markets, adopting a similar approach to other international regulators. Following on from its introduction of a dedicated private...more
In March 2025, Nasdaq released a comprehensive set of policy recommendations intended to advance capital formation in a paper titled “Advancing the U.S. Public Markets: Unlocking Capital Formation for a Stronger American...more
US IPO markets entered 2025 well positioned for a promising year as stabilizing interest rates, a business-friendly US administration and the pressing need for private equity firms to exit portfolio companies laid the...more
On March 12, 2025, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or the “Commission”) issued an interpretive letter (the “Interpretive Letter”) and...more
On March 12, 2025, the staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporate Finance issued a no-action letter in response to a request for Rule 506(c) interpretative guidance, agreeing that an issuer...more
On March 12, 2025, the staff of the Division of Corporate Finance (the staff) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) concurrently issued a no-action letter and interpretive guidance via new Compliance and...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted a no-action relief on March 12 in response to an inquiry by U.S. law firm Latham & Watkins LLP. This SEC No-Action Letter is expected to increase the adoption of Rule...more
On March 12, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), via a No Action Letter, issued interpretive guidance clarifying what constitutes “reasonable steps” issuers can take to verify purchasers’ accredited investor...more
On 12 March 2025, the SEC staff issued a no-action letter for offerings under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D. In the letter, the Staff concurs that an issuer will have taken “reasonable steps to verify” a purchaser’s accredited...more
On March 12, 2025, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a series of updates to the Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs), primarily affecting exempt offerings under...more
On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a no-action letter providing a new safe harbor for Rule 506(c) offerings, which may enable broader public outreach and...more
On March 6, 2025, for the first time since 2008, the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission updated its guidance on the use of lock-up agreements in connection with Rule 145(a) transactions (i.e.,...more
On March 12, 2025, Latham obtained SEC Staff guidance on the use of general solicitation in private placements. The guidance unlocks the full potential of Regulation D Rule 506(c) by clarifying that issuers may satisfy the...more
On March 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a significant no-action letter clarifying the use of high minimum investment amounts as a method for verifying accredited investor status under Rule...more