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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

La CVMO propose de nouvelles règles limitant les ventes à découvert avant les appels publics à l’épargne

Le 6 juin 2025, la Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario (la « CVMO ») a publié un projet de modification (disponible uniquement en anglais) visant le Règlement 48-501 de la CVMO – Négociations pendant les...more

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OSC Proposes New Rules to Restrict Short Selling Ahead of Offerings of Public Securities

On June 6, 2025, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) proposed amendments (Proposed Amendments) to OSC Rule 48-501 Trading during Distributions, Formal Bids and Share Exchange Transactions (OSC Rule 48-501) that will, if...more

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OSC Proposes Restrictions on Short Selling in Connection with Offerings

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The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) published for comment proposed amendments to OSC Rule 48-501 Trading during Distributions, Formal Bids and Share Exchange Transactions and proposed changes to the related companion...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Securities Fraud Claims Based on Short Reports

Is a report by a short seller followed by a stock decline enough to plead securities fraud? This month, the Fourth Circuit considered this issue. In Defeo v. IonQ, Inc., a group of investors sued IonQ, a developer of quantum...more

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Fourth Circuit Affirms District Court’s Denial Of Motion To Amend A Securities Fraud Class Action Against Quantum Computing...

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On April 8, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of a motion to amend a class action complaint against a quantum computing company (the “Company”) and the...more

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UK Financial Conduct Authority to consult on new short selling rules in Q3 2025

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated its webpage on the notification and disclosure of net short positions, providing an update on short selling. Following the publication of the Short Selling Regulations 2025 in...more

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UK Short Selling Regulations 2025 published

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The Short Selling Regulations 2025 were made and published on legislation.gov.uk, alongside an explanatory memorandum. The regulations replace assimilated law (including the U.K. Short Selling Regulation) and establish a new...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Key Regulatory Developments in the UK/EU – January 2025

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is currently consulting on a proposal for a new type of trading platform (PISCES) that would enable intermittent secondary trading of private company shares. PISCES would use certain...more

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The UK’s new lighter-touch short selling regime

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The U.K. Short Selling Regulations 2025 (“SSR 2025”) have been made. This paves the way for the U.K. to repeal and replace the regime implemented while the U.K. was in the European Union and then onshored into U.K. domestic...more

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UK Draft Short Selling Regulations Published

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The U.K. government has published a draft version of the Short Selling Regulations 2024. The draft SSR 2024 will replace the existing U.K. Short Selling Regulation, which was onshored from the EU and which is being repealed...more

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SEC Adopts Rule Amendments Requiring Increased Disclosure of Short Selling and Securities Lending Activities of Institutional...

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Summer 2023

Short sellers make their money by publishing information that attacks a company in order to drive down its share price. How can a company prepare? And what should it not do in the face of a short attack? We offer some tips in...more

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CSA Revisit Short Selling in Canada

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On December 8, 2022, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Staff Notice 25-306 Activist Short Selling Update (Staff Notice 25-306) and Joint CSA and IIROC Staff Notice 23-329 Short Selling in...more

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SEC Proposes Short Sale Disclosure Rule and Reopens Comment Period for Reporting on Securities Loans

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In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new rule to increase market transparency regarding short selling and extended the comment period for its proposed rule requiring reporting on...more

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SEC Eyeing Rulemaking to Combat Market Volatility, Modernize Market Structure

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On January 26, 2022, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler issued a brief statement noting the agency’s efforts to address the market volatility in January 2021 and beyond. The statement referenced the SEC staff report on volatility and...more

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Securities and markets regulatory news, January 2021

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UK SSR: Short Selling (Notification Thresholds) Regulations 2021 - The Short Selling (Notification Thresholds) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/5) have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum....more

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Securities and markets regulatory news, December 2020 # 3

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UK Short Selling Regulation: notification threshold - HM Treasury has announced that it intends to lay a statutory instrument under the retained EU law version of the Short Selling Regulation (UK SSR) amending the initial...more

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ESMA Lowers Threshold for Net Short Position Disclosures

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has yesterday, March 16, 2020, issued a decision to temporarily lower the net short position notification threshold under the European Union Short Selling Regulation from...more

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