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Minding the Store: Unanticipated ESG Issues Affecting ERISA Fiduciary Supervision

A recent summary judgment decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in an ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) class action challenging the alleged impact of environmental, social,...more

Fifth Circuit Vacates the Private Funds Rules And Constrains the SEC’s Rulemaking Authority

Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the “Private Funds Rules,” which the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted on August 23, 2023. The opinion of the...more

Key Questions for the Upcoming Private Funds Rules Fifth Circuit Decision

As a reminder, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the National Association of Private Fund Managers (NAPFM) and the other Petitioners in the Private Funds Rules Litigation1 requested that the three-judge panel...more

Reviewing the Industry Groups’ Opening Brief Challenging the Private Funds Rules

On November 1, 2023, the industry groups (the Petitioners) challenging the new Private Fund Adviser Rules filed in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit their opening brief (the Brief) setting forth their legal...more

SEC Files First Enforcement Complaint Under Liquidity Rule

On May 5, 2023, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filed its first enforcement complaint under Rule 22e-4 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, 17 C.F.R. § 270.22e-4 (the Liquidity Rule). The complaint was brought...more

Second Circuit Vacates Certification of Nationwide Class in ERISA Lawsuit

On December 1, 2022, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a district court’s certification of a nationwide class of 8,000+ retirement plans serving hundreds of thousands of participants in an ERISA action...more

Delaware Adopts Control Share Acquisition Statute for Registered Closed-End Funds and Business Development Companies Organized In...

The state of Delaware recently amended the Delaware Statutory Trust Act to adopt a control share acquisition statute (the “Control Share Statute”) as an anti-takeover defense. Beginning on August 1, 2022, the effective date...more

SEC Enforcement Weighs in on Variable Annuity Exchanges for the First Time

After years of relative silence related to variable annuity exchanges on the regulatory front, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced last week settled charges against RiverSource Distributors, Inc...more

Lawsuits Targeting SPACs as Unregistered Investment Companies

Within the last two weeks, a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys have filed derivative lawsuits in U.S. federal court in New York against three separate special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) — Pershing Square Tontine...more

In First Published Appellate Decision Addressing Gartenberg Factors Since Jones v. Harris, U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects...

On March 30, 2020, 10 years to the day after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Jones v. Harris, 559 U.S. 335 (2010), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued the first published federal appellate decision...more

Not Dead Yet: Second Circuit Revives Private Rights of Action Under Section 47(B) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

Since 2002, federal courts have refused to find that implied private rights of action exist under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (ICA). Last week, however, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held...more

Another Court Grants Summary Judgment to Adviser In Section 36(B) Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Lawsuit Brought Under Subadvisory Fee...

In a newly unsealed decision, the federal district court in Manhattan granted summary judgment in favor of a mutual fund’s investment adviser in a lawsuit filed pursuant to Section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940....more

Second Circuit Affirms Pre-Discovery Dismissal of Section 36(b) Subadvisory Fee Comparison Complaint

On March 18, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal prior to discovery of a complaint filed under Section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Second Circuit’s decision is...more

Another Court Partially Denies Summary Judgment, Sends Case to Trial in Section 36(b) Excessive Fee Action

On October 25, 2018, Judge George Wu of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles largely denied an investment adviser’s motion for summary judgment in an action against Metropolitan West...more

Court Partially Denies Summary Judgment for Adviser in Section 36(b) Excessive Fee Action

On October 3, 2018, Judge Edgardo Ramos of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision that largely denied an investment adviser’s motion for summary judgment in an action filed against...more

Rejecting Subadvisory Fee Comparison, Federal District Court Enters Summary Judgment for Investment Adviser and Administrator in...

On March 9, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio entered summary judgment for defendants in an action brought under Section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The plaintiffs in the action...more

Federal District Court Dismisses Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Lawsuit

On February 14, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan issued a decision dismissing a complaint brought under Section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, that...more

Court Rules for Fund Adviser in Excessive Fee Case Against Hartford

On February 28, the court in the mutual fund excessive fee case against Hartford (Kasilag v. Hartford Inv. Fin. Servs., LLC, No. 1:11-cv-01083 (D.N.J.)) issued a 70-page opinion ruling in favor of the fund adviser and against...more

Court Rules in Favor of Investment Adviser after Trial in Section 36(b) Excessive Fee Case

In a case closely watched by the mutual fund industry, the federal district court in New Jersey ruled on Thursday in favor of a mutual fund’s investment adviser and against the shareholders who had brought the lawsuit under...more

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