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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
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Great Women in Compliance: The Future of Enforcement with Jennifer Lee
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
Navigating 2025: The SEC's Evolving Role in Cryptocurrency Enforcement — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
The SEC's Reach Beyond Publicly Traded Companies
Everything Compliance: Episode 151, The What is Illegal DEI Edition
Everything Compliance, Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 151, The What is Illegal DEI Edition
Fintech Focus Podcast | Crypto 2.0: What’s Next in the US?
Episode 351 -- Deep Dive into the AAR FCPA Settlement
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Episode 345 -- Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
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A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more
Latham & Watkins, in collaboration with KPMG, has released 2023 guides to the financial statements required for US securities offerings. These companion guides provide US issuers and non-US issuers a roadmap to help navigate...more
The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s Guide...more
Pro forma financial statements may be required in a securities offering where an acquisition or disposition has occurred or is probable within a certain period of the offering. In a Rule 144A offering, market practice is...more
Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more
On August 26, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules to expand the accredited investor definition and modernize the disclosure requirements under Regulation S-K Items 101 (Business), 103 (Legal...more
COVID-19 presents novel issues for underwriters, who are grappling with the need to support their clients accessing funding and also maintain disclosure standards and manage their risk when the typical tools that they use to...more
The White & Case Capital Markets team updates its March 2018 publication on bond repurchases given the current environment where issuers may consider whether, if their bonds are trading at a discount to par, they should...more
Since its adoption in 2010, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (the “FDIC”) securitization safe harbor rule, 12 C.F.R. § 360.6 (the “Rule”), which relates to the treatment of financial assets transferred in...more
The upcoming Securities and Exchange Commission open meeting for December 18, 2019 will now address additional rulemaking....more
On August 8, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments (the “Proposed Rule”) to modernize its existing requirements for how companies disclose risk factors and describe their business and...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
Is There a Standard Form of Rule 144A Representation Letter? - My file of Rule 144A representation letters has been growing fatter, and I‘m not sure why. I would have hoped that by now there would be just one great...more
Today, September 23rd, is the one year anniversary of the effective date of the changes relaxing the prohibition against general solicitation in certain offerings made under Rule 506 and resales made pursuant to Rule 144A....more
On August 27, 2014, following years of preparation, speculation and comment, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted Regulation AB II (Reg AB II). Reg AB II represents a response to requirements of Sections 939A...more
The staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published a no-action letter on September 9, 2014 (available here) that permits certain commodity pool operators (CPOs) to conduct general solicitation in private...more