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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: January 1, 2024

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges....more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Bond Issue Fundamentals: A Guide to the Participants and the Process - Updated

A bond issue (a debt obligation of a local government) is often perceived as a mystery for many Pennsylvania local government officials and solicitors. The securities and tax regulations governing municipal bonds have grown...more

Butler Snow LLP

Failure to Update Budget Projections in Bond Offering Prompts the SEC to Charge the School District and the CFO with Misleading...

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On September 16, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) charged Sweetwater Union High School District, a San Diego County School District (the “District”) and its former Chief Financial Officer (the “CFO”),...more

Jones Day

New Exemption to Market Sounding Regime Under the Market Abuse Regulation

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The Situation: An exemption to the market sounding regime under the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") that became applicable on 1 January 2021, will increase the attractiveness of private placements of bonds by easing...more

White & Case LLP

Bond Repurchases – an Issuer's Guide to Questions to Ask and Points to Consider (March 2020 Update)

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The White & Case Capital Markets team updates its March 2018 publication on bond repurchases given the current environment where issuers may consider whether, if their bonds are trading at a discount to par, they should...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 8.22.2019 | Top Story: CBO Projects $1 Trillion Annual US Deficit in 2020

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The CBO sent shivers down the spines of deficit hawks yesterday with its latest forecast that shows federal cost overruns hitting $1 trillion for fiscal 2020, an increase of more than $100 billion from projections just 3...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Staff Encourages Proactive Approach to Libor Transition Issues

On July 12, 2019, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance, Division of Investment Management, Division of Trading and Markets, and Office of the Chief Accountant (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The Fed will wrap up its Open Markets Committee meeting today, and the recent dive on Wall Street has rather suddenly brought a bit of drama to what was a long-promised rate hike. Here’s a bit of background on what it’s been...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

NABL Bond Attorneys' Workshop - Notes and Impressions

On September 26-28 the National Association of Bond Lawyers held an annual gathering called the Bond Attorneys' Workshop, which consisted of a series of subject-specific meetings discussing topics in municipal finance. Most...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Proposes Amendments to Financial Disclosure Rules for Guaranteed and Secured Debt Securities

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently published in the Federal Register its July 24, 2018 proposed amendments to the Regulation S-X financial disclosure requirements for guaranteed and secured debt...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New California Law Imposes Additional Disclosure Requirements for Local Government Bonds

Local government issuers of bonds and any conduit borrowers of the proceeds of such bonds need to be aware of California Senate Bill 450 (Hertzberg), signed into law by the Governor on October 9, 2017....more

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FINRA and the MSRB Issue FAQs on Bond Mark-Up Disclosure

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On July 12, 2017, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) published new implementation guidance on the bond mark-up disclosure requirements set to take effect...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to Settle SEC Disclosure Law Violations - Agrees to Admit Wrongdoing and Pay Penalty for...

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Jan. 10, 2017, that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority) agreed to admit wrongdoing and pay a $400,000 penalty in connection with...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Financial Industry Developments - The CFPB Publishes Final Rule for Prepaid Accounts - On October 5, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "CFPB") finalized comprehensive consumer protections for...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Jury Finds Miami and Former Budget Director Guilty of Securities Fraud

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In the first federal jury trial by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against a municipality or its officers, jurors found that the City of Miami, Florida (Miami or the City) and its former budget director...more

BCLP

Simpler or simplistic? The Prospectus Regulation

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The European Commission has continued in its drive towards a European Capital Markets Union by proposing measures in the Prospectus Regulation which it hopes will revamp the current prospectus regime. We are told that...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

FINRA Requests Comment on Revised Price Disclosure Information Standards for Corporate and Agency Debt Securities

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued a regulatory notice requesting comment to revisions on a proposed rule that would enhance information disclosure standards for retail-size customer trades of corporate and...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House

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Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House provides a high-level overview of recent activity at the Maine State House. July State Revenue Over Projection - Due to higher than anticipated revenues generated by...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

The Third Circuit Affirms the Denial of Third-Party Releases for Lack of Adequate Disclosure

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the decisions of the District and Bankruptcy Court denying, for reasons of inadequate disclosure, the approval of a third-party release provision in the Chapter 11 plan of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

SEC Turns Up the Heat on Issuer Officials

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Two recent SEC enforcement actions demonstrate that the Securities and Exchange Commission remains intently focused on the municipal market and, in particular, on officials participating in financings that fail to accurately...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Deadline Approaching for Disclosure of Continuing Disclosure Violations

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) recently launched its Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation Initiative (the MCDC Initiative). Obligated persons (including issuers and conduit borrowers) and...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SEC Charges Charter School Operator with Disclosure Violations, Suggests It May Charge Individuals

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged a Chicago charter school operator with defrauding investors in a $37.5 million bond offering by failing to disclose transactions that presented conflicts of...more

Brooks Pierce

For Municipal Bond Issuers, SEC’s New Cooperation Initiative Could Be a Good Idea (Unless It’s a Bad Idea)

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You know how every few years libraries will offer an amnesty program and give delinquent borrowers a chance to bring in their old books without prohibitive late fines? The SEC is sort of trying out that approach with its new...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Post-Issuance Tax Compliance and Continuing Disclosure Responsibilities for Issuers and Borrowers of Tax-Exempt Bonds

Chapter One: Introduction: Why Post-Issuance Compliance? Over the past few years, the tax-exempt bond market has been under heightened scrutiny by various regulators, including the Internal Revenue Service...more

Saul Ewing LLP

SEC charges municipal bond issuer and underwriter with defrauding investors

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For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a municipal bond issuer with securities fraud for falsely claiming that it was compliant with annual disclosure obligations....more

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