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The Briefing: Influencer Fail – ALO Yoga & Influencers Named in $150M Class Action Lawsuit for FTC Violations
Compliance into the Weeds: Leaving on a (Qatari) Jet Plane
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Choosing Your LDA Reporting Path for 2025
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 305: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 2 – Discovery)
Compliance Tip of the Day: Clarifying Compliance Mandates
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Greenhushing: What It Is & Why It Matters
(Podcast) The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
AI Washing: Simple Guidance to Avoid Risk
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Episode 332 -- Deep Dive into SEC’s Internal Controls and Cybersecurity Settlement with R&R Donnelly
Mitigating Political-Law Risk
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Why ESG Matters?
The Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) has published a consultation on debt offerings to retail investors which proposes to introduce a single disclosure standard for debt prospectuses, removing the current distinction...more
As a follow-up to our prior discussion in this area, this article addresses a recent exemption issued to the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that allows for increased trading...more
On January 2, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the FINRA Rule 6500 Series (the SLATE Rules), which establishes the Securities Lending and Transparency Engine (SLATE), a new facility for the...more
On November 2, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the adoption of amendments to Form N-PX and related rules to extend public company stockholder vote disclosure filing requirements beyond...more
The policy change integrates climate change considerations for the first time into the ECB’s quantitative easing and repo facilities. On July 4, 2022, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that it would integrate...more
UK rules will diverge from the much-criticised EU framework. On 20 July 2021, the FCA published a Consultation Paper (CP21/23) on amending the UK PRIIPs Regulation. The FCA has long held concerns about the PRIIPs...more
The Financial Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently issued a detailed report on compliance issues noted in its examination program. In this alert, we discuss FINRA’s observations relating to Rule 2232, which requires...more
Our Securities Group summarizes the many ways the Securities and Exchange Commission has streamlined some statistical disclosure requirements by replacing the 30-year-old Industry Guide 3 with final rules that update and...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently adopted amendments to the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings that include certain credit enhancements. The amendments...more
The amendments will become effective on January 4, 2021, with earlier compliance permitted. The amendments focus on providing material financial and non-financial information regarding guarantees and other credit...more
As the economic turbulence associated with the downturn in commodity prices and the outbreak of COVID-19 continues, many energy companies may find their debt trading at significant discounts. For companies trying to manage...more
This Client Alert examines the key issues that typically arise in non-convertible bond repurchase programs, before turning to the issues unique to repurchases of syndicated bank debt. It also looks at issues applicable to...more
Amendments eliminate audited three-year guarantor financial statement footnote and separate financial statements of subsidiaries whose shares are pledged; replaced with unaudited combined summarized financial information for...more
On March 2, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments that reduce and simplify the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings for guarantors and issuers of guaranteed...more
On March 2, 2020, the SEC adopted amendments to Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X in order to simplify and streamline the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered offerings of guaranteed debt securities. The SEC...more
The SEC has published proposed changes to Guide 3 which are intended to update, clarify and codify the Guide with the aim of eliminating overlaps between U.S. GAAP, IFRS or other SEC rules, simplifying compliance efforts and...more
On September 17, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules to update the statistical disclosures that banks and loan registrants provide to investors, and eliminate disclosures that overlap with SEC rules,...more
On July 24, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rule amendments that would simplify the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings for guarantors and issuers of...more
On July 24, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to the financial disclosure requirements in Rules 3-10 and 3-16 of Regulation S-X, in an effort to simplify and streamline disclosures by...more
On July 24, the SEC proposed amendments to Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X for guarantors and issuers of guaranteed securities registered or being registered, as well as the financial disclosure requirements in Rule 3-16 of...more
The private placement of debt securities, compared to the more common public issuances, has grown in popularity in recent years, particularly in emerging markets such as those in the Middle East. Whilst there is little...more
Background - On 1 January 2018, European Union (EU) Regulation (No 1286/2014)[1] on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) comes into force. It will require that a...more
On November 17, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) approved new rules requiring dealers to disclose on retail customer confirmations their mark-ups and mark-downs on most municipal and corporate...more
Below are summaries of some more new CDIs from Corp Fin, this group relating to the tender offer rules and schedules. Two of the new CDIs provide guidance regarding disclosure of compensatory arrangements for financial...more
On 3 July 2016, Regulation 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union (the Market Abuse Regulation) repealed and replaced Directive 2003/6/EC on Market Abuse (the Market Abuse Directive)....more