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Haynes Boone

AIM’s Regulatory Reset: What the Proposed Reforms Mean for Companies, Founders and Advisers

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AIM is undergoing a significant overhaul — and for growth companies, founders and their advisers, the practical implications are substantial. On 4 June 2026, the London Stock Exchange published AIM Notice 62, proposing the...more

Mayer Brown

Stock-options : absence d’imputation de la moins-value de cession réalisée par un non-résident sur le gain de levée d’option

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Stock-options et non-résidents : la Cour administrative d’appel de Paris juge que la moins-value réalisée par un non-résident lors de la cession d’actions souscrites par l’exercice de stock-options n’est pas déductible de la...more

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Sripetch v. SEC: The Supreme Court Holds That Disgorgement Does Not Require Proof of Investor Pecuniary Loss

On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the SEC need not prove investors suffered actual financial losses before obtaining a disgorgement award. Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission, No....more

Mayer Brown

Taxe sur les salaires : caractérisation d’un secteur d’activité financier même en l’absence de personnel dédié

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Taxe sur les salaires : la Cour administrative d’appel de Paris rappelle qu’une société holding mixte peut faire valoir la sectorisation de son activité en matière de taxe sur les salaires, quand bien même elle n’aurait pas...more

Baker Donelson

RIAs Should Proceed with Caution When Using AI Tools on Calls with Clients

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Registered investment advisers (RIAs) are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools that automatically transcribe and summarize client calls. While these technologies may offer efficiency gains, they introduce...more

Alston & Bird

SEC Signals Path to Monthly Liquidity for Interval Funds

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be opening the door to monthly liquidity for certain interval funds while preserving existing quarterly repurchase limits. Our Investment Funds Group examines the proposed...more

Mayer Brown

"Cram Down" – Cross-Class Plan Approval in Insolvency Proceedings

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I. WHY THIS TOPIC IS IMPORTANT: Pre-insolvency restructurings often fail not because of economic logic, but because individual creditors (or groups of creditors) block a viable restructuring solution, e.g., to negotiate a...more

Friling Law

Doing Business in Venezuela Under OFAC General Licenses: What U.S. Persons May and May Not Do Without a Specific License

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Introduction: U.S. sanctions involving Venezuela remain complex, highly fact-specific, and subject to frequent change. Although the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has issued a number of Venezuela-related General...more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] The Cloakroom with Peter Roskam: 37th Annual Legislative Seminar – Congressman Ted Lieu, D-CA

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Former Congressman Peter Roskam, who leads BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, provides listeners with a front-row seat to the most important policy and political debates in Congress. In this episode of “The Cloakroom with...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SNDAs from the Tenant's Perspective: What to Negotiate and Why It Matters

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When a tenant invests significant capital, time and resources in a leased location encumbered by a mortgage or other loan secured by the premises, a Subordination, Non-Disturbance, and Attornment Agreement (SNDA) is an...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

OFSI at Ten: Strategy Update

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On 15 April 2026, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published a strategy document for 2026–2029 (available here) (the ‘Strategy’), marking its tenth anniversary. The Strategy sets out a three-year plan...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

How to Stay Ahead of the Risk That Your Insiders Could Trade on Prediction Markets

Event contracts — the term for what prediction markets offer — are not new. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has regulated trading of event contracts, such as weather contracts, for decades....more

Tannenbaum Helpern

Regulatory Update – SEC Proposes Form PF Amendments and Raises “Qualified Client” Thresholds

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On April 20, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”, and together with the SEC, the “Commissions”) issued a release proposing amendments to Form PF (the...more

Dickinson Wright

Business Identity Theft: How Corporate Hijacking Works and What to Do

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The first clue is usually boring. A tax refund check never arrives. A state business-registry email says “access granted,” but no one at the company requested access. A bank fraud department calls about a business account the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Interview: How AI Is Driving M&A … and Changing the Process

Economic and political factors are major drivers of the uptick in mergers this year, says Drago Rajkovic, Citigroup’s co-head of M&A. But it’s also hard to underestimate the effect of artificial intelligence (AI), as the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Everything Compliance: Shout Out & Rants - New Season, New Host and New Lineup

Welcome to a revamped Everything Compliance Shout Outs and Rants. We have a new host, Adam Turteltaub, and a new panelist, Rebecca Walker, who joins returning regulars Matt Kelly, Jonathan Armstrong, and Karen Moore for the...more

Cooley LLP

The SEC’s General Counsel Rusty McGranahan: 12 Things to Know

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Here are 12 key takeaways from my interview with SEC General Counsel Rusty McGranahan that I blogged about last week: Be Bold and Creative: Rusty repeatedly encouraged companies and lawyers to actively consider the new...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Key Legal Trends Shaping M&A in 2026

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After a period of relative slowdown, global M&A activity is showing signs of recovery. Financing markets have become more constructive, interest rates expectations have stabilised and both private equity sponsors and...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Banking Trade Groups Urge Tenth Circuit to Reject Colorado’s Attempt to Apply Its Usury Laws to Interstate Loans Made by...

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On June 4, 2026, the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute, Consumer Bankers Association, America’s Credit Unions, and 52 state bankers associations filed a supplemental amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in...more

A&O Shearman

CFTC Issues New Enforcement Policy On Cooperation

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On May 19, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) published a staff advisory letter to the Division of Enforcement which outlined a new policy for evaluating a party’s cooperation with the agency and...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

AI Today in 5: June 9, 2026, The OpenAI Files to go Public Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

How Tokenization and Programmable Assets Could Reshape Capital Markets

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A trend with the potential to reshape capital markets is asset automation. By this, we mean the coding of operational and business rules and processes directly into financial assets. Let’s start with an example. Take a...more

A&O Shearman

House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform Opens Prediction Markets Insider Trading Probe

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On May 22, 2026, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (“Committee”) Chairman James Comer opened an investigation into how users of prediction market platforms potentially are using nonpublic information to...more

DLA Piper

ILPA publishes guidance on allocation of organizational expenses in PE fund formation with emphasis on mega funds

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The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) released new guidance last month titled, "The Alignment Gap: Rethinking Costs in Private Equity Fund Formation," which proposes a framework to address what ILPA...more

White & Case LLP

China rising: How cross-border deals and Beijing’s reform push is reviving the M&A landscape

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After years of regulatory uncertainty, new dealmaking policies and cross-border appetite are breathing life into Chinese M&A - China’s M&A market staged one of its strongest recoveries in recent memory last year, with deal...more

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