News & Analysis as of

Enforcement Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Seward & Kissel LLP

Recent SEC Enforcements for Violations of Whistleblower Protection Rule

Seward & Kissel LLP on

On September 9, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced it settled enforcement actions against seven public companies for alleged violations of its whistleblower protection rule in their...more

Crunched Credit

Regulatory Contagion

Crunched Credit on

Last year, I wrote a commentary entitled Contagion.  That commentary was inspired by the early days of the meltdown of the crypto currency market (long before SBF made the whole space way more notorious with a whiff of...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

CFPB Warns Employee NDAs, Confidentiality Agreements May Violate Whistleblower Laws

On July 24, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance putting financial regulators and employers on notice that requiring employees to sign broad confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements that...more

Bracewell LLP

Supreme Court Declares SEC Lacks In-House Authority to Impose Civil Penalties

Bracewell LLP on

The United States Supreme Court struck another major blow to the Securities Exchange Commission’s enforcement arsenal, finding that its oft-used practice of imposing monetary penalties in its in-house administrative...more

Freiberger Haber LLP

Enforcement News: SEC Charges Investment Advisor With Violating Whistleblower Protection Rule

Freiberger Haber LLP on

We have often written about the SEC’s whistleblower program and, in particular, the success of the program with respect to detecting and preventing violations of the federal securities laws. The success of the program...more

Jackson Walker

White Collar Docket Check: US Supreme Court to Decide Key Administrative, Whistleblower, and Due Process Cases This Term

Jackson Walker on

The U.S. Supreme Court began its new term this week and is taking cases government enforcement practitioners will want to follow. Specifically, the Court will address issues concerning: the interplay between SEC...more

White & Case LLP

How to Avoid Risk of SEC Whistleblower Rule Violations in Connection with Employee-related Documents

White & Case LLP on

On February 3, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced that a public company agreed to pay $35 million to settle charges of, among other things, violations of the whistleblower protection rule.1...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

New DOJ Clawback Policy Brings Compensation and Employment Questions Front and Center for Companies

Can a new Department of Justice enforcement approach make clawback policies covering criminal activities a best practice? The DOJ is implementing a new policy under which prosecutors will make clawback policies for...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC Enforcement: 2022 Year in Review

On the heels of record-breaking enforcement in 2022, expect continued aggressive pursuit of Chair Gensler’s priorities in 2023. The SEC will continue to bring its considerable resources to bear to address ESG-related...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Exempt Reporting Advisers and SEC Scrutiny

Holland & Knight LLP on

Exempt reporting advisers (ERA) have become a topic of interest for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Enforcement due in large part to their growing popularity among the investment adviser...more

Dechert LLP

Compensation Clawback Crackdowns – an Emerging Enforcement Focus

Dechert LLP on

DOJ and the SEC Enforcement Division have launched initiatives targeting executive compensation clawbacks. The SEC is aggressively pursuing SOX 304 compensation clawbacks from Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act to Provide Oversight of Digital Assets

The Act would expand the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to spot markets in digital commodities and would preempt state law. The timeline for the bill appears to be aggressive, with hearings on...more

Bracewell LLP

Fifth Circuit's Constitutional Carve-Back of the SEC's ALJ Enforcement Proceedings Likely to Lead to More Federal Court Cases

Bracewell LLP on

On May 18, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) dealt a major blow to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) enforcement program. In Jarkesy v. SEC, the Fifth...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Exponential Growth in SEC Whistleblower Program: A Sign of Things to Come for FY 2022

Holland & Knight LLP on

"Record breaking" is how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) described its whistleblower program results in FY 2021, and it's not hard to see why. The agency continued to receive tips from all corners of the...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: In Her Final Speech As SEC Chair, White Identifies Current Trends Assailing SEC Independence

Cooley LLP on

Mary Jo White took the occasion of her final speech as SEC Chair, presented to the Economic Club of New York, to discuss how to maintain the role of the SEC as an effective financial regulator and how the SEC can “continue as...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Big Regulatory Changes in Store for Funds and Advisers? No One Knows for Certain, but Here’s Our Best Guess

While no one knows for sure what the future holds for investment management regulation, the tea leaves indicate that we may expect a slowdown on new regulations, some pullback on parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more

King & Spalding

Viewpoints - Issue 24 - A Dialogue with Andrew Ceresney

King & Spalding on

On October 7, 2015, members of the Lead Director Network (LDN) were joined by chief legal officer and general counsel (GC) guests in Washington, DC, for a discussion with Andrew Ceresney, director of the Division of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Compilation of Enforcement and Non-Enforcement Actions

Foley & Lardner LLP on

Non-Enforcement - Form PF — What Purpose? SEC registered investment advisers with at least $150 million of assets under management in private funds are required to periodically file Form PF with the SEC. The...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Commissioner Gallagher On Dodd-Frank and Staff Divisions

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher provided something of a score card for activities over the past five years he has served on the agency prior to his impending departure. To the surprise of few he panned the Dodd-Frank and...more

Goodwin

Financial Services Weekly News Roundup - June 2015 #4

Goodwin on

Regulatory Developments - Client Alert: SEC Proposes Pay for Performance Rules: Goodwin Procter’s Capital Markets practice has issued a Client Alert on the SEC’s proposed rule that would require most public...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

2nd Circuit Upholds SEC’s Denial of Whistleblower Award

Larry Stryker petitioned the Second Circuit for review of an order of the SEC that denied his claim for a whistleblower award. He sought the award under Section 21F of the Dodd-Frank Act based on information he supplied to...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Investment Management Legal + Regulatory Update - February 2015

In This Issue: - SEC Proposes Rule Requiring Hedging Disclosure - SEC Reports the Result of its Cybersecurity Sweep of Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers - House Passes Bill to Ease Volcker Rule and Other...more

Allen Matkins

Is Anything Fishy With The SEC’s Whistleblower Inquiries?

Allen Matkins on

Yesterday, Rachel Louise Ensign of The Wall Street Journal wrote that the SEC recently sent letters “to a number of companies asking for years of nondisclosure agreements, employment contracts and other documents”.  According...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

SEC Remarks at the Practising Law Institute’s Program Titled “SEC Speaks in 2015”

On February 20, 2015, several representatives from the SEC spoke at the Practising Law Institute’s program titled “SEC Speaks in 2015,” including Chair Mary Jo White and Commissioner Louis A. Aguilar. Ms. White provided...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The SEC Commissioners Speak: Part I

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

The SEC Speaks conference has traditionally been a forum in which the agency reviewed significant recent undertakings and indicated its future direction. This year was no different. Four of the five Commissioners addressed...more

65 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 3

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide