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Is the SEC Clawback Rule Unlawful?

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Nasdaq and NYSE-listed companies must have a compensation recovery policy that complies with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s clawback rule. The rule requires the clawback of executive compensation after an accounting...more

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CFPB Seeks Dismissal of Pending UDAAP Examination Manual Litigation

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The CFPB on April 30, 2025, filed a joint stipulation to dismiss its appeal pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit regarding an agency policy that expands the scope of antidiscrimination oversight....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Opportunity Knocks – Litigating Financial Regulation in a Second Trump Administration

During the Biden-Harris Administration, the relationship between financial institutions and their regulators chilled considerably. The financial services industry works daily with its regulators—especially through the...more

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Featuring BizFinLaw - November 2024

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In Texas Bankers Association v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied a summary judgment motion by the Texas Bankers Association and other plaintiffs to set...more

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Regulatory Contagion

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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

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Federal Court Scraps SEC Private Fund Advisers Rule

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In a victory for the private funds industry, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the SEC’s recently adopted Private Fund Adviser Rule on June 5, 2024. In other words, the controversial rule, which...more

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Private Funds Rules Vacated

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On June 5, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Court”) vacated the entire set of new Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”) rules applicable to private fund advisers (the...more

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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Vacates the SEC’s Private Fund Adviser Rules

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On June 5, 2024, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Court”) vacated the Private Fund Adviser Rules (“PFAR”) that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) had adopted by a divided vote in...more

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Consumer Advocates Petition CFPB to Undertake Rulemaking to Prohibit “Pre-dispute” Consumer Arbitration Clauses

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Earlier last week, a group of consumer advocate organizations filed a Petition for Rulemaking with the CFPB that would prohibit the use of pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer contracts in favor of arbitration clauses...more

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Wins Summary Judgment in Challenge to CFPB’s Update to Its Examination Manual

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​​​​​​​On September 8, 2023, the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Texas granted plaintiff U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s (the “Chamber”) motion for summary judgment invalidating the Consumer Finance...more

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Seven States and D.C. Aggressively Challenge Reg BI

On September 9, 2019, the states of New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Mexico and Oregon, and the District of Columbia (collectively, the States) filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief...more

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