Changing SEC leadership defines its priorities for a new era of SEC enforcement. At the annual "The SEC Speaks" conference on February 22 in Washington, D.C., Acting Director George Canellos and other senior officials...more
On February 14, 2013, SEC Chairman Elisse Walter at long last indicated, in testimony for the Senate Banking Committee, that the SEC’s final regulations regarding “municipal advisors” will “address ,,, the need for an...more
On December 17, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Elisse Walter named Lona Nallengara as Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance to replace Meredith Cross, who has announced that she will leave the...more
Participants in the municipal securities market should take particular interest in the appointment of Elisse B. Walter as chair of the SEC. Her close association with regulation of the municipal securities market makes it...more