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August 30 Deadline for TIC Form SHL

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Memorandum to our Investment Management Clients and Friends - The Quinquennial Report of Foreign-Resident Holdings of U.S. Securities (“TIC Form SHL”) is a benchmark report used by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2023 Edition

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Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Material Investment Management Developments and Template Annual Compliance Checklists for Registered Investment Advisers, Exempt...

Summaries of recent legislative and regulatory developments with respect to: •SEC’s 2022 Examination Priorities • Proposed Amendments to Form PF Requirements- •Proposed New Rules Applicable to Private Fund Advisers and...more

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President Biden Signs Executive Order Banning New Investments in Russia

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In This Issue. President Biden issued an executive order banning new investments in Russia in response to Russia’s continued war against Ukraine; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a notification to all...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

2020 and Q1 2021 Developments And Annual Compliance Checklists

Summaries of recent legislative and regulatory developments with respect to: •The SEC’s Examination Priorities for 2021- •The SEC’s Focus on Digital Asset Securities- •The SEC’s New Marketing Rule... ...more

Dechert LLP

BEA’s BE-180 Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Providers: Implications for U.S. Asset Managers

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In September and October 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will administer its next mandatory Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Transactions between U.S. Financial Services...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Treasury Report Targets Money Laundering Risks in Real Estate and Gatekeeper Professions

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In its 2020 National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing (“2020 Strategy”), the U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) has laid out its AML and money laundering enforcement priorities. Last week, we...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Amendments to FINRA New Issue Rules 5130 and 5131 Effective January 1, 2020

KEY POINTS - - Amendments to FINRA Rules 5130 and 5131, which govern the offer and sale of "New Issue" securities went into effect on January 1. - FINRA Rule 5130 prohibits a broker-dealer from selling New Issues to...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Changes to FINRA Rules 5130 and 5131 Go Effective – Considerations for Private Fund Managers

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On November 5, 2019, the SEC approved changes to FINRA Rule 5130 (Restrictions on the Purchase and Sale of Initial Equity Public Offerings) and Rule 5131 (New Issue Allocations and Distributions). FINRA announced that the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

January 1 Effective Date for FINRA IPO Allocation Rules Changes

On December 19, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) adopted amendments to Rules 5130 and 5131 (the “New Issues Rules”) to permit allocations of initial public offering (IPO) profits to certain...more

K&L Gates LLP

New Japanese Foreign Investment Regulation Could Impact the Financial Services Industry and Undermine Japan’s Corporate Governance...

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On November 22, the Japanese National Diet, the Japanese national legislature, passed an amendment bill to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (Act No. 228 of 1949, as amended) (the “FEFTA”) to expand the scope of...more

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SEC Approves FINRA Amendments to Rules 5130 and 5131

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved amendments to FINRA Rules 5130 and 5131 (the Rules). The Rules are intended to promote fairness in the allocation of new issues of equity securities by...more

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Recent SEC Action Reminds Non-US Broker-Dealers of Obligations under U.S. Securities Laws - Compliance with U.S. securities laws...

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In September 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged a non-U.S. financial services firm for providing brokerage services to investors in the United States without being registered as a broker-dealer or...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on the Latest Swap Regulations and Position Limits

DERIVATIVES - See also “CFTC Extends Public Comment Period for Proposed Rules Pertaining to Cross-Border Clearing” and “CFTC and European Commission Issue Joint Statement Following Meeting on Cross-Border Derivatives...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Form SHL: Reports by U.S. Issuers and Others on Foreign Ownership Due August 30, 2019

The U.S. Department of the Treasury requires U.S. issuers—including U.S.-resident investment funds—to report foreign residents’ holdings of U.S. securities every five years on its Treasury International Capital (TIC) Form...more

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Regulation Best Interest: The Next Big Thing for Broker-Dealer Cross-Border Private Wealth

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In April 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") released Regulation Best Interest, or Reg BI, a proposed rule that will require broker-dealers to operate in the best interest of their customers. Under Reg...more

McDermott Will & Emery

SEC Adopts Amendments that Simplify and Update Disclosure Requirements

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Last month, the SEC adopted amendments intended to facilitate the disclosure of information to investors, simplify compliance without significantly altering the total mix of information provided to investors, improve...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

U.S. Withholding on Synthetic Trades over U.S. Equities – Additional Delay of Full Implementation until 2021 (Notice 2018-72)

• The broader application of Section 871(m) has been delayed further until January 1, 2021 and, as a result, investment funds with non-U.S. feeders or investors up the chain should generally expect to incur U.S. withholding...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

U.S. Withholding on Synthetic Trades over U.S. Equities—Further Delay of Full Implementation Until 2019 (Notice 2017-42)

In response to perceived abuses in taxpayers’ use of swaps and other derivative transactions (e.g., options, futures or forwards) to avoid withholding tax on U.S. source dividends, Congress added Section 871(m) to the...more

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EB-5 Due Diligence Matters

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Private placement offerings are an increasingly active part of the securities business. One especially complicated and emerging area of private placements is the EB-5 Investor Visa Regional Center Program. Under the current...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Broker-Dealer Beat - June 2015: Foreign Finders

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Foreign Finders - The longstanding rules on foreign finders – when a brokerage firm can pay transaction-based compensation to a non-registered foreign finder – will be incorporated into new FINRA Rule 2040, effective...more

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Financial Services Weekly News Roundup - June 2015

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Regulatory Developments: Superintendent Lawsky Announces Final BitLicense Regulations - New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky, at the BITS Emerging Payments Forum,...more

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Concurrent EB-5 Offerings In The United States And Abroad

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Until recently, U.S. offerors and others had to make offerings of EB-5 project investments solely offshore in order to benefit from Regulation S, an exclusion from registration requirements. The offerors had to exclude...more

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FINRA Provides Guidance on the Applicability of the Suitability Rule to Broker-Dealers Marketing Private Placements in the EB-5...

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In an interpretive letter to a broker-dealer dated August 26, 2013, FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) interpreted the suitability requirements under Rule 2111 for recommendations to foreign nationals making...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC Issues FAQs Regarding Rule 15a-6 and Foreign Broker-Dealers

Pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 15a-6 adopted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, certain exemptions from broker-dealer registration are available for foreign broker-dealers that engage in limited...more

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