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Broker-Dealer Compliance + Regulation

SEC Chair Says Commission Is Prepared to Try More Cases on Heels of Change to Settlement Policy

Last Thursday, SEC Chair Mary Jo White told a crowd of white collar lawyers and judges in Washington, D.C., that the Commission is prepared to try more cases in the wake of its recent policy change requiring certain...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SEC Further Limits Ability of Companies to Settle on a "No Admit, No Deny" Basis

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently further limited the ability of companies to settle claims without admitting to the SEC’s charges. Traditionally, the SEC had allowed defendants to settle enforcement...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Recent Notable Industry Developments

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Following SEC Chair Mary Jo White’s recent remarks suggesting a change to the SEC’s long-standing policy of permitting defendants to settle cases “without admitting or denying” the SEC’s allegations of wrongdoing,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The SEC's New Policy on Seeking Admissions in Settlements

On June 18, 2013, in comments to the Wall Street Journal CFO Network Conference in Washington, D.C., SEC Chairman Mary Jo White announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission will begin to press for admissions of...more

Brooks Pierce

SEC Buys Itself a Headache

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If you’re reading this, you’re surely aware of the several-years-old-now fight between the SEC and some federal judges regarding the SEC’s policy of settling cases while allowing defendants to neither admit nor deny the...more

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