Cybersecurity in the investment management industry
As we noted in our October 13, 2023, client alert, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments to its beneficial ownership rules. Those amendments are effective as of February 5, 2024....more
On October 10, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued its final rules modernizing beneficial ownership reporting under Sections 13(d) and (g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange...more
On October 10, 2023, the SEC adopted amendments to the rules governing the reporting of beneficial ownership of securities under Sections 13(d) and 13(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The amendments accelerate the...more
On October 10, 2023, the SEC adopted amendments to shorten the filing deadlines for initial and amended beneficial ownership reports on Schedules 13D and 13G. The amendments will generally take effect no earlier than January...more
This legal update summarizes (a) the reporting requirements under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which are generally applicable to persons that own, or exercise investment...more
The SEC’s amendments mandate electronic filing of Form 144 and certain other documents, providing investors with more immediate access to information. Individuals who wish to sell restricted securities that will require...more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments that allow for new payment methods for filing fees, including Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments and debit and credit card payments; revise most...more
U.S. Developments - VanEck and SolidX to Offer Bitcoin ETF to Qualified Institutional Buyers - On September 3, 2019, VanEck Securities Corp. and SolidX Management LLC announced that they are seeking to use Rule 144A of...more
The new 116th Congress convened on Thursday, January 3, 2019 as the partial government shutdown, carrying over from the prior Congress, continued into the new year and has now outlasted previous shutdowns. Although the...more
With the government partially shut down, the SEC is following its operations plan during a shutdown, which entails an extremely limited number of staff members available to respond to emergency situations involving market...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently released its Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2018 to 2022. The plan identifies three goals. ...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) adopted amendments that require that registrants that file registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) and the...more
Imagine a perfect world where every financial transaction has an electronic chain of proof of title and a history of all prior owners. This is the world of blockchain technology – a world that already exists for Bitcoin, and...more
Yesterday, the SEC issued an interim final rule amending Form 10-K pursuant to section 72001 of the FAST Act. That section required the SEC to allow issuers to include summary sections in their annual reports on Form 10-K as...more
On October 30, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final crowdfunding rules. More than two years after the publication of the proposed crowdfunding rules, the SEC approved regulations that permit...more
ICMA Issues Updated Legal Opinions On GMRA - On April 9, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) published the 2015 legal opinions on the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA), the principal standard...more
I’m not your legal advisor. And I’m definitely not your investment adviser. But the first rule of penny stock companies should be: do not invest in penny stock companies. I mean, does that seem like a smart thing to do? ...more
In February 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) once again re-opened the comment period with respect to proposed revisions to Regulation AB relating to the disclosure of asset-level data after receiving many...more
Overview - Yesterday, December 18, 2013, the SEC released proposed rules to carry out the rulemaking mandate of Title IV of the JOBS Act. The proposed rules both retain and modernize the current framework of Regulation...more