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SEC Issues Guidance Regarding Self-Verification of Accredited Investor Status for Rule 506(c) Offerings

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On March 12, 2025, the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a no-action letter clarifying that issuers relying on Rule 506(c) of Regulation D, the private offering safe harbor permitting general...more

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SEC Staff Issues Bright Line Guidance for Minimum Investment Amount in Offerings to Verify Accredited Investor Status under Rule...

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On March 12, 2025, staff of the Office of Small Business Policy of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “SEC Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued interpretive guidance in the form of a...more

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SEC Staff No-Action Letter Allows Issuers to Rely on High Minimum Investment Amounts to Verify Purchasers in Rule 506(c) Offerings

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On March 12, 2025, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued no-action guidance providing that certain minimum investment amounts, along with certain written representations from the purchaser, could...more

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SEC Provides Further Clarity in Rule 506(c) Offerings

On March 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a No-Action Letter that provided guidance regarding the ways issuers can satisfy the accredited investor verification requirements of offerings made...more

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SEC No-Action Letter Streamlines Verification Steps for Rule 506(c) Offerings with Sufficiently Large Minimum Investments

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On March 12, the Staff of the SEC issued interpretive guidance in a no-action letter (the No-Action Letter) agreeing with an interpretation of Rule 506(c) proposed by a major international law firm (the Request Letter). ...more

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SEC Offers Updated Guidance for Rule 506(c) Private Placements

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On March 12, 2025, the SEC published a No-Action Letter clarifying accredited investor verification requirements under Rule 506(c)....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Rule 15c2-11 Update: The SEC Provides Temporary Relief for Fixed Income Rule 144A Securities Until January 4, 2025

The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets issued a new no-action letter yesterday that removes the requirement that Rule 144A information be made publicly available prior to a broker-dealer publishing a quotation or...more

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SEC Staff Provides Extension of Relief on Rule 15c2-11

The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets has issued a no action letter that extends its prior relief as currently provided under “Phase 1” in its prior letter in relation to the application of Rule 15c2-11 to fixed income...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

The SEC’s Limited Guidance on Crypto Tokens in No-Action Letters

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) has been accused of “regulation by enforcement” when it comes to the standard for determining whether a crypto token is a security. Part of this stems from the fact...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Proposes Amendments to the Shareholder Proposal Rules

On July 13, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), by a 3-2 vote, proposed amendments to the proxy rules that would narrow certain grounds under which companies may exclude shareholder proposals from their...more

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ESG Shareholder Proposals Will be More Difficult to Exclude After SEC Staff Interpretive Reversal

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On November 3, 2021, the staff (“staff”) of the Division of Corporation Finance (“Division”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14L which reverses a series of...more

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CFPB Grants No-Action Letter for Proposed Small-Dollar Credit Product

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In the News. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) granted a no-action letter (NAL) regarding a proposed small-dollar credit product and sought comment on the CFPB’s plan to study how consumers locate, comprehend...more

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Coronavirus COVID 19 CFTC and NFA Issue Relief and Guidance

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) has issued a series of eight staff letters which will facilitate the functioning of the derivatives markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. These actions will assist...more

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SEC Division of Investment Management Issues Communication for Mutual Fund Boards

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Investment companies’ boards may have upcoming meetings that were planned anticipating in-person attendance, yet the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) may alter travel plans. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more

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Court Ruling May Shift the Contours of Shareholder Proposal Litigation Under Rule 14a-8

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The Situation: Late last year, a shareholder sued NorthWestern Corporation ("NWE") to compel the company to include a climate-change related proposal in its 2020 proxy materials after NWE had notified the staff of the...more

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Financial Services Weekly News: Regulators Propose Easing Volcker Rule Restrictions

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In This Issue. Federal financial regulators brought January to an impactful conclusion last week. On the morning of January 30, five federal financial regulators issued a proposed rule that would fundamentally modify the...more

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INSIGHT: Crypto - The Pursuit of Sufficient Decentralization

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Recent SEC guidance on digital assets cleared a path for at least certain stable coins or payment tokens to avoid securities regulation. However, Latham & Watkins attorneys say there are still a number of open questions that...more

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Did You Remember These Developments for the 2020 SEC Reporting Season?

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Preparations for annual reporting on Form 10-K and the 2020 proxy season have begun in earnest for many companies. We have summarized certain governance and disclosure developments that should be considered in the course of...more

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Preparing for the 2020 Public Company Reporting Season

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued rule updates and guidance in 2019 that are intended to simplify certain public reporting requirements, clarify the staff’s expectations with respect to no-action relief...more

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SEC Proposes Amendments to Advertising and Client Solicitation Rules under the Investment Advisers Act

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed on November 4, 2019 significant amendments to its current rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”) relating to investment adviser...more

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SEC Proposes Solicitation Rule Amendments

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On November 4, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to rules governing investment adviser advertisements and payment to solicitors under the Investment Advisers Act. The comment period...more

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SEC Staff Provides Additional Guidance on Shareholder Proposals

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued several important recent updates regarding shareholder proposals and the related no-action request process for companies to consider ahead of the 2019-2020 proxy...more

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White House Orders Agencies To Offer Opinion Letters Or Does It?

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Last month, the White House issued this fact sheet concerning two executive orders intended "to improve the transparency and fairness of government agencies and ensure that they are held accountable". The fact sheet describes...more

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SEC Staff Policy Change on 14a-8 Process; May Choose to Respond Orally Rather than in Writing

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It’s been a busy late summer and early fall for the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) as it relates to shareholder proposals and the Staff’s historical involvement in the no-action process related to...more

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Observations and Recommendations on the SEC’s Recent Process Changes for Excluding Shareholder Proposals

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Earlier this month, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance announced that its staff may respond orally instead of in writing to some shareholder proposal no-action requests, beginning with the 2019-2020 proxy season. ...more

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