Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights June 26, 2013 Client Update Delaware Court of Chancery Upholds Statutory and Contractual Validity of Exclusive Forum-Selection Bylaws Yesterday, Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. of the Delaware Court of Chancery upheld the statutory and contractual validity o... June 12, 2013 Client Update Prospectus Liability Regimes in Europe – June 2013 On June 10, 2013, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”), following a request from the European Commis... June 5, 2013 Client Update CFTC Finalizes SEF Rules and Adopts Minimum Block Trade Sizes On May 16, 2013, the CFTC adopted final rules relating to the registration and operation of swap execution facilities, the... June 5, 2013 Client Update CFTC Provides Clearing Relief for Treasury Affiliates of Commercial Swap Counterparties Yesterday, the CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk issued a no-action letter providing a clearing exception to “treas... May 31, 2013 Client Update Delaware Court Applies Business Judgment Rule to Going-Private Merger with Controlling Stockholder In a recent, landmark Delaware decision in In re MFW Shareholders Litigation, C.A. No. 6566-CS (Del. Ch. May 29, 2013), Ch... May 31, 2013 Client Update SEC Issues Guidance on Conflict Minerals On May 30 the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued interpretive guidance on the SEC’s new conflict min... May 16, 2013 Client Update SEC Proposes Cross-Border Security-Based Swap Rules On May 1, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission took long-awaited action to propose rules governing cross-border ac... May 3, 2013 Client Update Compensation Committee and Adviser Implementation Begins July 1: What to Do Now As discussed in our previous memo, in January 2013, the SEC approved amendments to the NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards r... May 2, 2013 Client Update FINRA Releases Additional Guidance Regarding the Use of Pre-Inception Index Performance in Institutional Communications On April 22, 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) issued an Interpretive Letter to ALPS Distrib... April 30, 2013 Client Update International Organization of Securities Commissions Releases Consultation Report on Regulation of Retail Structured Products A working group of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the Madrid-based international policy... Load More
June 26, 2013 Client Update Delaware Court of Chancery Upholds Statutory and Contractual Validity of Exclusive Forum-Selection Bylaws Yesterday, Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. of the Delaware Court of Chancery upheld the statutory and contractual validity o...
June 12, 2013 Client Update Prospectus Liability Regimes in Europe – June 2013 On June 10, 2013, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”), following a request from the European Commis...
June 5, 2013 Client Update CFTC Finalizes SEF Rules and Adopts Minimum Block Trade Sizes On May 16, 2013, the CFTC adopted final rules relating to the registration and operation of swap execution facilities, the...
June 5, 2013 Client Update CFTC Provides Clearing Relief for Treasury Affiliates of Commercial Swap Counterparties Yesterday, the CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk issued a no-action letter providing a clearing exception to “treas...
May 31, 2013 Client Update Delaware Court Applies Business Judgment Rule to Going-Private Merger with Controlling Stockholder In a recent, landmark Delaware decision in In re MFW Shareholders Litigation, C.A. No. 6566-CS (Del. Ch. May 29, 2013), Ch...
May 31, 2013 Client Update SEC Issues Guidance on Conflict Minerals On May 30 the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued interpretive guidance on the SEC’s new conflict min...
May 16, 2013 Client Update SEC Proposes Cross-Border Security-Based Swap Rules On May 1, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission took long-awaited action to propose rules governing cross-border ac...
May 3, 2013 Client Update Compensation Committee and Adviser Implementation Begins July 1: What to Do Now As discussed in our previous memo, in January 2013, the SEC approved amendments to the NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards r...
May 2, 2013 Client Update FINRA Releases Additional Guidance Regarding the Use of Pre-Inception Index Performance in Institutional Communications On April 22, 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) issued an Interpretive Letter to ALPS Distrib...
April 30, 2013 Client Update International Organization of Securities Commissions Releases Consultation Report on Regulation of Retail Structured Products A working group of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the Madrid-based international policy...