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This memorandum, which updates our January 2009 and February 2010 memoranda on this topic, summarizes the key developments in the past year relating to environmental disclosure and provid...
On January 7, 2011, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co. (No. 09-1403). This case presents the Court with an opportunity to resolve a split in the ...
On November 19, 2010, the SEC issued a release (the “Exemptions Release”) proposing rules to implement certain provisions of Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
In an important recent decision, In re Champion Enterprises Inc., the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held that payments made and collateral granted on account of valid...
On November 10, 2010, the CFTC proposed rules concerning swap dealers and major swap participants (“swaps entities”) under the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules address entity registration, c...
On November 19, 2010, the SEC issued a release (the “Implementing Release”) in which it proposed rules and rule amendments, including various amendments to Form ADV, to implement cert...
On November 19, 2010, the SEC issued a release (the “Exemptions Release”) proposing rules to implement certain provisions of Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
In a practical ruling that explicitly acknowledges the relevance of “[p]ractice and understanding in the real world,” the Delaware Supreme Court today invalidated a bylaw amendment ad...
At open meetings on November 19, the CFTC and SEC each proposed rules under the Dodd-Frank Act regarding reporting of swap and security-based swap* data to regulated swap data repositorie...
At an open meeting on November 19, the CFTC proposed a rule regarding protection of collateral of counterparties to uncleared swaps and issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on ...