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Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth

The SEC’s Enforcement Program Under President Trump’s Second Administration: What Can We Expect

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Al Tierney, a partner in Stradling’s SEC enforcement practice, recently authored the article, “The SEC’s Enforcement Program Under President Trump’s Second Administration: What Can We Expect” for the OC Lawyer. With Paul...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Whiplash: The (Brief and Tragic?) Life of the SEC’s Cyber Disclosure Rules

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In 2023 and 2024, our public company clients were focused on complying with the SEC’s cyber disclosure rules—and on the risk from big, high-profile government enforcement actions like the SolarWinds case. But with a new SEC...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 3, April 2025

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Welcome to our third issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. SEC may Reverse Proposed Cryptocurrency Custody Rule and Ohio House...more

K&L Gates LLP

United States: House Committee on Financial Services Urges the SEC to Withdraw Final and Proposed Rules

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On 31 March 2025, the House Committee on Financial Services (Committee), in a letter to Acting Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mark Uyeda, identified a series of proposed and adopted rules that...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Pay vs. Performance and Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules: Will the SEC Retract Rulemaking?

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On March 31, 2025, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services sent a letter to Mark Uyeda, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Seeking to “undo the damage from...more

Cooley LLP

Will the SEC Retract Its Cybersecurity Disclosure and Pay vs. Performance Rules?

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Earlier this week, Republican members of the House Committee on Financial Services sent this letter to the SEC asking that it retract a total of 14 adopted – and proposed – rules. Among this list are two that Corp Fin ushered...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Regulatory Reset? U.S. Cyber Incident Reporting Rules Face Congressional Scrutiny

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Lawmakers expressed bipartisan support for significantly amending or eliminating some cybersecurity incident notification requirements during a recent hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

The False Claims Act Could Become the New “It” Statute in an Uncertain Enforcement Landscape

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Uncertainty was a prominent theme at last week’s ABA White Collar Crime Institute. The Trump administration has issued a series of directives that seem to shift and narrow the scope of (if not entirely abandon) a host of...more

Morgan Lewis

Securities Enforcement Roundup – February 2025

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In this issue of our monthly Securities Enforcement Roundup, we highlight top securities enforcement developments and cases from February 2025. In February 2025: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Reversal of Fortune: SEC to Drop Coinbase Suit

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On Friday, Coinbase announced that the SEC staff had agreed in principle to dismiss its case alleging the company had failed to register as a securities exchange, broker-dealer, and clearing agency. We can expect the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Dual registrant regulatory roundup - February 2025

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Welcome to the Regulatory Roundup. Each month, Eversheds Sutherland Investment Services attorneys review significant regulatory developments (including notable rulemakings and guidance from securities regulators) from the...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Eight Enforcement Trends That Likely Will End Under a Trump SEC

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The Voting Record and Public Statements of the Commissioners Provide a Roadmap - There has been much speculation on what SEC enforcement will look like under a new administration, especially now that President-elect Donald...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Dual registrant regulatory roundup - August 2024

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Welcome to the Regulatory Roundup. Each month, Eversheds Sutherland Investment Services attorneys review significant regulatory developments (including notable rulemakings and guidance from securities regulators) from the...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Just In! More Guidance on Material Cybersecurity Incidents (Item 1.05 of Form 8-K)

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On June 24, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released five additional Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations for Item 1.05 of Form 8-K (Material Cybersecurity Incidents). These interpretations provide...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

Top Ten Regulatory and Litigation Risks for Private Funds in 2024

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To understand the litigation and regulatory risks that are coming in 2024 for private capital, it is helpful to look back briefly on recent events. Arguably, the single most important event over the last 18 months was the...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

Panicked Over Cyber Disclosure Laws? Here’s a Plea for Common Sense

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Corporate legal departments are scrambling to stay ahead of the latest developments around cyber incident disclosure rules and regulations. In hopes of reducing panic and distress, a pair of legal experts are issuing a...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Cybersecurity Enforcement Update: NYDFS Adopts Final Amendments to its Cybersecurity Regulations and SEC Sues SolarWinds Executive

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Recent activity by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) highlight the continued focus by government regulators on cybersecurity. As these and other regulators...more

Perkins Coie

2023 Breach Notification Law Update: Changes to Notification and Security Requirements Continue at State and Federal Levels

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A flurry of legislative activity over the past year has brought meaningful changes to a variety of privacy and security provisions in state and federal law. At the state level, as in 2022, we have seen a handful of changes to...more

Carlton Fields

SEC Deals New Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements to Public Companies

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On July 26, 2023, the SEC adopted new cybersecurity rules, which have two top-line impacts. First, registrants must disclose material cybersecurity incidents promptly on Form 8-K. Second, registrants must disclose new...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted the final rules (the “Final Rules”) on July 26, 2023 that will require disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents, cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

SEC Rules Impose New Four-Day Reporting Requirements for Cybersecurity Incidents

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) voted on July 26, 2023 to adopt new cybersecurity rules, which are aimed at helping investors better understand the cybersecurity risks associated with public companies by...more

Polsinelli

SEC Adopts Cybersecurity Incident and Risk Management Disclosure Rules

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On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new rules requiring public companies to disclose within four business days material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose annually...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

SEC Formalizes New Rules on Cyber Breach Disclosures

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The SEC has recently voted on new rules that will require companies to disclose material cybersecurity incidents within four days and to make disclosures about their broad cybersecurity risks in their annual report. Tom Fox...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

SEC Adopts Final Cybersecurity Rules — Requires Companies to Focus on their Security and Disclosure Plans

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On July 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted, by a 3-2 margin, a final rule to require more immediate disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents by public companies. In addition, the final rule...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC adopts breach-reporting rules, establishes requirements for cybersecurity risk management

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On July 26, a divided SEC adopted a final rule outlining disclosure requirements for publicly traded companies in the event of a material cybersecurity incident. ...more

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