23 Apr, 2024 PFAS CERCLA Designation -- What's Next By David Crass Last week, USEPA Administrator Regan signed the final rule designating PFOA, PFOS and their salts and structural isomers as hazardous...
05 Apr, 2024 FinCEN to Impose Broad AML Obligations on Investment Advisers By Iqan Fadaei For many years, key U.S. anti-money laundering laws (in particular, rules under the Bank Secrecy Act) have applied to financial...
29 Mar, 2024 Congress Reauthorizing Price-Anderson Act is Vote of Confidence for Nuclear By David Crass Last week's activity in Congress to adopt spending packages for the remainder of 2024 included the extension of the Price-Anderson Act to...
25 Oct, 2023 More SEC Conflict of Interest Charges... By Iqan Fadaei The SEC has settled charges against Bruderman Asset Management LLC (BAM) and its principal, Matthew J. Bruderman, for failing to disclose...
02 Oct, 2023 SEC Declines to Impose Civil Penalties for Unregistered Sale of Securities By Iqan Fadaei Kevin Timken Betsy Voter The SEC recently settled charges against an issuer for failing to register the offers and sales of a retail crypto lending product. But...
02 Oct, 2023 SEC Brings Further Actions for Violation of Whistleblower Protection Rule By Iqan Fadaei Betsy Voter Kevin Timken The SEC has brought charges against a private subsidiary of a publicly traded company for using an employee release agreement that...
02 Oct, 2023 SEC Charges Lyft for Failing to Disclose Director's Sale of Pre-IPO Stock By Iqan Fadaei Kevin Timken Betsy Voter Yesterday, the SEC charged Lyft for failing to disclose a board director’s role in a shareholder’s sale of approximately $424 million...
23 Sep, 2023 SEC Charges Virtu. Virtu Suggests Charges are Retaliatory. By Iqan Fadaei Betsy Voter Kevin Timken On September 12, the SEC filed charges against Virtu for allegedly misleading customers about the existence and adequacy of information...
18 Sep, 2023 Advisers Settle SEC Charges Relating to Custody Rule / Form ADV Violations By Iqan Fadaei Betsy Voter Kevin Timken The SEC recently settled charges against five investment advisers to private funds for $500,000 in combined penalties, as part of its...
28 Apr, 2023 The ABCs of ESG By Michael Best Last week we launched our new limited podcast series, "ESG Insights." Over the next several weeks, we will explore the intersection of...
05 Apr, 2023 SEC Proposes Three Rules Establishing Comprehensive Cybersecurity Requirements By Daniel Armel On March 15, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) concurrently proposed three rules designed to address the growing...
20 Jun, 2022 Proposed Bill Would Hand Oversight of Crypto to CFTC By Kieran Edstrom Under a new bill sponsored by Sens. Cynthia M. Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), the primary oversight of cryptocurrencies...