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On December 26, 2018, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in a shareholder derivative action that alleged that Disney’s board of directors and several corporate officers participated in...
The SEC instituted a cease-and-desist proceeding in a fairly straightforward enforcement action that nonetheless emphasizes the importance of the requirement that GAAP measures must be pr...
The Federal Reserve and FDIC (the Agencies) provided feedback on the U.S. resolution plans filed in July 2018 by four Foreign Banking Organizations – finding shortcomings in each, but a...
Rules and Regulations
SEC Staff Releases Update to Investment Company Reporting Modernization FAQs
SEC Proposes Rule Changes for Fund of Funds Arrangements
Industry Update
Remarks...
The SEC will be closed for the holidays on December 24 and 25. In addition, in the event of a government shutdown, the SEC said it would “remain fully operational for a limited number o...
On December 19, 2018, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced its plan to lift sanctions on three Russian entities for agreeing to dista...
Industry Update
Remarks from Commissioner Peirce before the Crypto Valley Summit
SEC Chairman, Commissioners Deliver Remarks at Proxy Process Roundtable
SEC Public Statement on Digi...
On December 18, 2018, the SEC adopted a final rule implementing Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires U.S. public companies to disclose whether they permit their employees, of...
In a recent speech, SEC Chair Jay Clayton highlighted three areas of risk disclosure that the regulator plans to monitor in the upcoming filing season: (1) the impact of Brexit, the Unite...
On December 19, 2018 the European Commission published the legislative proposals and delegated acts (the “Package”) which it had previously outlined in its Contingency Action Plan of ...