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Streamlining NDA Negotiations for Middle Market Investment Banks: The Case for a Transformative, Tech-Enabled Solution

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In the fast-paced world of middle market investment banking, efficiency is currency. Large investment banks representing sellers often enter into thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) every year. These agreements are...more

Dechert LLP

ERISA Déjà-Boo? New Halloween Fiduciary Proposal May Be a Real Scream

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The Department of Labor (“DOL”) on October 31, 2023—Halloween—issued a release (the “Release”) proposing to make changes to the 1975 rule (the “1975 Rule”) defining when institutions and individuals are providing fiduciary...more

A&O Shearman

PRA proposals to facilitate MRT public appointments

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For material risk takers (MRTs) and firms who may have grappled with remuneration restrictions when seeking public appointments, there is relief in sight. In a pragmatic move, the PRA is consulting on proposals to relax the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Best Interest Standard of Care for Advisors #78: Compliance with PTE 2020-02: Mitigation of Incentive Effects of Payout Grids...

The DOL has issued FAQs that generally explain PTE 2020-02 and the expanded definition of fiduciary advice. In FAQ 17, the DOL discusses both the implications of payout grids and mitigation techniques to minimize...more

Carlton Fields

SEC Pressures Advisers on Undisclosed Conflicts

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We are actively looking for circumstances where an adviser is financially conflicted by incentives that could affect investment recommendations to clients. ... And I will tell you: the more we look, the more undisclosed or...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2019 Insights: New UK IPO Rules Encourage Independent Research, Address Perceived Conflicts of Interest

In July 2018, changes came into effect to improve the range, quality and timeliness of information available to the market and to remedy certain perceived conflicts of interest during the U.K. initial public offering (IPO)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

In Principle: 10 Things Authorised Firms Need to Know for 2018 – The World of Financial Regulation as the UK Prepares to Exit the...

There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more

Holland & Knight LLP

DOL Settlement Agreement Provides ESOP Transaction Guidance

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• The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and First Bankers Trust Services Inc. (FBTS) have entered into a settlement agreement filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, resolving a case challenging FBTS'...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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With politics swirling around in the background, the AT&T/Time Warner mega-merger is still up in the air, with DOJ antitrust officials still working away (8 months after the deal was announced) to determine whether...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

KL Snapshot #12 – Janvier-Février 2017

Banque & Finance – Hubert de Vauplane - Rapport Terra Nova : Les conflits d'intérêts, nouvelle frontière de la démocratie de février 2017 - Hubert De Vauplane a été auditionné le 20/03/15 dans le cadre de la...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FinCEN Enforcement Action Highlights AML Compliance Program Failures and Conflicts of Interest for High-Risk MSB Customers

On February 27, 2017, FinCEN announced a $7 million civil monetary penalty against Merchants for willful violations of the BSA. Additionally, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Merchants’ federal functional...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The Journal reported yesterday that more than 6,000 Wells Fargo branches were routinely tipped off to inspections by internal risk monitors, a practice that allowed the bank’s sham-account scandal to go undetected for years....more

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What Have Merchants Gained from Payment Card Antitrust Litigation?

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In recent years, federal antitrust enforcers and businesses that accept payment cards have been waging a slow war against payment card fees and the card network rules that protect them. The payment card industry’s antitrust...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - July 2016 #3

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Regulatory Developments - SEC Proposes Amendments to Update and Simplify Disclosure Requirements as Part of Overall Disclosure Effectiveness Review - On July 13, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed...more

Winstead PC

Court Granted Summary Judgment For A Trustee On A Fiduciary Breach Claim Arising From Conflict-Of-Interest and Diversification...

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In Adams v. Regions Bank, beneficiaries sued a trustee for multiple claims, including breach of fiduciary duty, arising from the trustee’s seizure of collateral owned by the trust. 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1027 (S.D. Miss....more

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Financial Services Weekly News Roundup - May 2015 #3

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SEC Proposals to Enhance Investment Company and Investment Adviser Reporting: As we went to press, the SEC commissioners announced that they had voted to approve two proposals. The first was for new and amended rules and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

This Week In Securities Litigation

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The SEC announced its first whistleblower award in a retaliation case this week. The agency also brought an insider trading case, an action against an investment adviser, its general counsel and auditor based on a conflict, a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Investment Management Legal + Regulatory Update -- September 2014

In This Issue: - Regulation: Long-Awaited Money Market Fund Rules Adopted - SEC Staff Offers Guidance Regarding Investment Advisers and Proxy Advisory Firms - SEC Staff Closes Loophole on BDC Asset...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"MSRB Actions Regarding Municipal Advisors: Release of Revised Draft Rule G-42 for Comment, and Submission of Proposed Rule G-44...

This mailing is to inform you of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) releasing Revised Draft Rule G-42 (setting forth duties of non-solicitor municipal advisors) for public comment, and submitting Proposed Rule...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New York DFS: Nonbank Servicers Can Expect Increased Scrutiny

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New York's top financial regulator plans to aggressively expand his agency’s investigation into nonbank servicers and the firms' affiliates that provide ancillary services. Speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association's...more

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