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In response to a public outcry over compensation and other practices and a call for accountability in the current financial crisis, a sharply divided Commission today proposed amendments ...
With action by the House of Representatives Monday, legislation creating an independent commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis has now passed both houses of Congress, an...
Eighth Circuit Holds in Contemporary Industries Corp. v. Frost that Payments Made to Selling Shareholders in the Course of a Leveraged Buyout Qualify as “Settlement Payments” and are ...
On May 4, 2009, Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Authorizing the Regulation of Swaps Act (the “LevinCollins Bill” or the “Bill”),...
Christine A. Varney, the Assistant Attorney General who serves as the head of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), announced yesterday that the DOJ plans to pu...
Treasury’s General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2010 Revenue Proposals were released on May 11, 2009. The Explanations cover a number of items of potential interes...
On May 5, 2009, the SEC charged a bond salesman and a hedge fund manager with insider trading involving credit default swaps (“CDS”). The case, the first ever involving insider tradin...
This morning, the Obama Administration provided more detail on its previously announced plan to reform the U.S. tax laws relating to the taxation of income earned by foreign subsidiaries ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a roundtable at its headquarters in Washington, DC on May 5, 2009 to discuss issues raised by its recent proposals to restrict short sales...
Partners’ interests in a partnership, such as an investment fund, can change during the course of a year as a consequence of transfers and redemptions of interests and the admission of ...