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On September 26, the SEC announced a welcome, broad expansion of “testing the waters” flexibility for all companies. Under new Rule 163B, all companies, and persons authorized to act ...
With the House expected to vote on a cannabis-related bill this week, we have updated our visual memorandum to describe the three different cannabis bills—and three different approaches...
In a long-awaited milestone, the SEC has proposed an update of Guide 3, the industry guide for banking organizations. The proposal eliminates a number of the current requirements under G...
In response to what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called “Iran’s brazen attack against Saudi Arabia,” and following President Trump’s tweet ordering Treasury to “substantial...
The U.S. antitrust agencies have struggled for decades to provide comprehensive guidance on the antitrust treatment of so-called vertical mergers—generally, mergers of two companies at ...
On August 21, 2019, the SEC issued guidance to assist investment advisers in fulfilling their proxy voting responsibilities (the “Guidance”) and an interpretation that proxy voting ad...
On September 9, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service released proposed regulations that, if finalized in their current form, would in many cases dramatically reduce the portion of a company...
In the latest development in the complex and evolving sanctions targeting the Government of Venezuela, on September 9, 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Cont...
On September 9, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control published a final rule amending the Cuban Assets Control Regulations to:
remove the general license au...
The FDIC and the OCC approved final amendments to the original Volcker Rule regulations, which were first adopted in December 2013. The Federal Reserve, SEC and CFTC are expected to appr...