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Pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the “EESA”), the U.S. Department of the Treasury has formally begun soliciting asset managers and other agents for the Tr...
As anyone who has been near a television screen, a newspaper or the Internet this past week knows, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the “Act”) was enacted under enorm...
On September 23, 2008, the United States Senate ratified the much anticipated fifth protocol (the “Protocol”) amending the income tax treaty between the United States and Canada.
On September 22, 2008, New York Governor David Paterson announced that New York State will regulate part of the credit default swap market, and the New York State Department of Insurance ...
On September 22, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) issued a policy statement (the “Equity Policy Statement”) that relaxed and clarified ...
Under an SEC Emergency Order effective today, all institutional investment managers that are Form 13F filers for the calendar quarter ended June 30, 2008, will be required to file each we...
On Saturday, September 20, the US Treasury sent Congress a draft of proposed legislation which would permit the US Treasury to set up a program to purchase troubled assets from financial ...
For two separate but related reasons, August 28, 2008, was an especially significant day for the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the white collar defense bar, and the corporate communi...
At an open meeting yesterday morning, the SEC voted to adopt a number of new rules pertaining to reporting enhancements for foreign companies that are SEC registrants. The SEC also voted ...