Nov 27, 2024 UK Parliamentary Group Publishes “Hard-Hitting” Report on the FCA By Carolyn Jackson Nathaniel Lalone Neil Robson Christopher Collins Ciara McBrien Sara Portillo +3 more... Show less The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on investment fraud and fairer financial services (a group of thirty Members of Parliament...
Nov 27, 2024 Differentiating Between ROFOs and ROFRs By Benzion Westreich Rights of first offer (ROFOs) and rights of first refusal (ROFRs) are two tools often used to provide rights to potential purchasers with...
Nov 26, 2024 Penn State Prevails in Retro Logo Infringement Suit By David Halberstadter Jessica Kraver Lauren Eiten The Nittany Lions are used to winning on the football field, but last week they also snagged a decisive victory in the courtroom. On...
Nov 25, 2024 California Regulator Opens Comment Period for Latest Round of Privacy Regulations By Trisha Sircar On November 22, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) opened the formal public comment period for its latest proposed...
Nov 25, 2024 Michigan Pushes Legislation to Safeguard Reproductive Privacy By Trisha Sircar On November 7, 2024, the Michigan legislature introduced the Reproductive Data Privacy Act (the RDPA) or Senate Bill 1082 (SB 1082). The...
Nov 25, 2024 NSA Wants Industry to Disclose Details of Telecom Hacks in Light of Chinese Involvement By Trisha Sircar On November 20, 2024, the director of the National Security Agency, General Timothy Haugh, urged the private sector to take swift,...
Nov 25, 2024 What the Evian "Carbon-Neutral" Ruling Means for Advertisers By Catherine O'Brien In a notable ESG ruling, U.S. District Judge Nelson Roman dismissed a class action lawsuit against Danone Waters of America that had...
Nov 25, 2024 NIST Releases Privacy Workforce Taxonomy Public Draft By Trisha Sircar On November 21, 2024, the NIST Privacy Framework Team released the NIST Privacy Workforce Taxonomy, Initial Public Draft (IPD). The...
Nov 25, 2024 OFAC Warns Foreign Financial Institutions Against Joining Russian Financial Messaging Center By Jacques Semmelman On November 21, 2024, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") issued an alert cautioning...
Nov 22, 2024 Alpine v. FINRA Big News By Susan Light Wayne Aaron On November 22, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted Alpine a preliminary injunction, ruling that the...
Nov 21, 2024 US Federal Court Vacates SEC’s Dealer Rule By James Brady Wayne Aaron Susan Light Earlier today, the US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas vacated the rule recently adopted by the Securities and Exchange...
Nov 19, 2024 New Administration, New Direction? What Swap Dealers Can Expect From CFTC Post-2024 Election By Alex Kim Carl Kennedy The 2024 US presidential elections may signal a shift in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC or Commission) regulatory and...
Nov 19, 2024 Expected CFTC Implementations Post-2024 Election: Key Considerations for Futures Commission Merchants By Carl Kennedy Stephen Morris Eli Krasnow Nicholas Gervasi +1 more... Show less The 2024 US elections may signal a shift in the policy orientation of other federal financial regulators, but at the Commodity Futures...
Nov 13, 2024 OFAC Publishes Sanctions Guidance for the Maritime Shipping Industry By Jacques Semmelman On Oct. 31, 2024, The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the U.S. Department of the Treasury published a “Sanctions Guidance...
Nov 12, 2024 The SEC Adopts Rules Amending the Covered Clearing Agency Standards By Nathaniel Lalone James Brady Carl Kennedy Christopher Collins Ciara McBrien Sara Portillo +3 more... Show less The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently adopted final rules applicable to SEC-registered Covered Clearing Agencies...
Nov 07, 2024 Industry Insights From a Restructuring Powerhouse: A Conversation With Jamie Sprayregen By Paul Musser In the latest TMA Chicago Midwest Podcast episode, I sat down with James (Jamie) Sprayregen, Vice Chairman at Hilco Global. Jamie, a...