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 August 5, 2025, the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") issued a statement ("Statement") providing interpretive clarity on the application of federal securities laws to...more
On June 23, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Terren Scott Peizer, founder of Ontrak Inc., a Miami-based publicly traded health care company, has been sentenced to three and one half years in prison by a...more
In response to a request for no-action submitted by the law firm Latham & Watkins on March 12, 2025 (No-Action Letter), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance’s staff (Staff) provided new...more
TXSE (pronounced TEX-see) announced on April 4, 2025 that its Form 1 registration is now public, putting it one step closer to Y'all Street. The announcement touted its proprietary “matching engine" that it believes will make...more
On Friday, March 14, in Regulatory Notice 25-05, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) proposed a new rule to address when registered individuals engage in activities away from their member firms and when...more
On November 19, 2024, the Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal (Tribunal) released its reasons for its July 2024 decision granting an application by Riot Platforms, Inc. (Riot) to cease trade a shareholder rights plan (Plan)...more
On August 28, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to certain registered investment companies (funds) reporting requirements. The SEC originally proposed the amendments on November 2, 2022....more
The National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania passed a bill fundamentally reforming the banking and financial markets in Mauritania....more
The Accelerated Settlement Taskforce is currently examining a potential migration by the U.K. from a so-called T+2 to a T+1 settlement standard, i.e., reducing the time it takes for securities transactions to settle, having...more
SEC Rule 10b-5(b) makes it unlawful, in connection with the offer and sale of securities, for any person to make any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact when the omission renders any statements...more
This month's SPAC Notebook follows up on our recent discussion of risk mitigation and due diligence tips for foreign companies going public in the US. We want to share more information on the current litigation environment...more
On February 6, 2024, the SEC adopted new rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), to expand the scope of “dealers” and “government securities dealers” required to register under the Exchange Act, become...more
One of the grey areas for real estate development, private equity and venture capital firms (“sponsors”) that serially launch new funds is how frequently a sponsor can come to market with a new fund offering without hitting...more
The recently published Accelerated Settlement Taskforce report makes several recommendations to the U.K. government for moving to faster settlement of securities trades in the U.K. The main recommendation is that the U.K....more
The standard settlement cycle for certain securities in Canada and the United States will be shortened from trade date plus two business days (“T+2”) to trade date plus one business day (“T+1”) in May 2024. A shorter...more
On February 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted Rules 3a5-4 and 3a44-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), which significantly expand the definitions of “dealer” and “government...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or "Commission") has adopted new rules that further define the phrase "part of a regular business" for purposes of determining whether a person is a "dealer" or "government...more
In a 2-1 opinion issued on February 14, 2024, an Eleventh Circuit panel partially reversed a lower court ruling that would have barred a defendant from participating in future penny-stock offerings. The majority found it was...more
The Blockchain Bi-Weekly presented by the Polsinelli Blockchain+ team is a rundown of some of the key stories in the Web3, blockchain and crypto ecosystems curated by our attorneys navigating the intersections of code, smart...more
On February 5, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted new rules – SEC Rules 3a5-4 and 3a44-2 (collectively, the “Final Rules”) – to further define the phrase “as part of a regular business” used in...more
The New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), through the NYSE Regulation staff, has issued its annual Listed Company Compliance Guidance Memo for 2024 (“Memo”), which informs NYSE-listed companies of new matters, including the...more
Recent SEC actions relating to the definition of “dealer” under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 may enable the SEC to start cracking the whip over more persons who actively trade securities for their own account “as part...more
On August 4, 2023, the Department of Finance released a revised version of its proposed 2% equity buyback tax (“Buyback Tax”) that will apply to relevant transactions that occur on or after January 1, 2024....more
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) and Ernst & Young LLP recently published Artificial Intelligence in Capital Markets: Exploring Use Cases in Ontario (the “Report”), which examines current artificial intelligence...more
On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved final rules requiring increased disclosure of short selling activities of institutional investment managers and securities lending activities of...more