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Sep
8
2015
Executive Assistant Embezzles $1 Million from Hewlett Packard; as yet, SEC Doesn’t Care Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Sep
6
2015
Third Circuit Finds that the FTC Has Authority to Sue Companies for Inadequate Cybersecurity Practices as an "Unfair" Practice Holland & Hart LLP
Sep
4
2015
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Consults on Remaining MiFID II Draft ITS Katten
Sep
3
2015
Resource Extraction Payment Rule — Not Everyone Wants To Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Sep
3
2015
Big Loss For Plaintiffs In High Frequency Trading Cases Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
3
2015
D.C. Circuit Court Rules That The SEC Unlawfully Withheld Action Mandated By Congress Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Sep
3
2015
ESMA Publishes Advice on Extending the Marketing Passport Beyond Europe Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Sep
2
2015
Officers And The Internal Affairs Doctrine Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Sep
1
2015
Just How Scary is the SEC? “Fear” Not Sufficient Grounds to Duck Administrative Subpoena Mintz
Sep
1
2015
SEC Steps Up Its Pursuit of Claims Involving the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Mintz
Sep
1
2015
Expansion of Issuer Liability for Crowdfunding: What Might this Mean for the EB-5 Industry Mintz
Sep
1
2015
California Securities Law: Overcoming A Securities Overissue Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Sep
1
2015
Pumping the Brakes on Shareholder Demands and Threats of Derivative Lawsuits against Your Company Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered
Aug
31
2015
Bridging the Week: August 24 - 28 and 31, 2015 (Net Capital, Flash Boys, Forum Choice, AML, Investment Advisers and Regulatory Equivalency) Katten
Aug
31
2015
August 2015 Compilation of Enforcement and Non-Enforcement Actions Foley & Lardner LLP
Aug
31
2015
FinCEN Proposes New Anti-Money Laundering Rules for Investment Advisers Katten
Aug
31
2015
Failure to Investigate Could Mean “Game-Set-and-Match” for EB-5 Investors: SEC Case against Brother-in-Law of Tennis Star Andre Aggasi Shows Risk for Would-be Immigrant Investors Mintz
Aug
31
2015
In California, A Snail Is Sometimes A Fish And A Goldfish Isn’t Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
30
2015
Bridging the Week: August 17 - 21 and 24, 2015 - Block Trades, Front Running, Failure to Supervise, Conflicted Audit, Exempt Clearinghouse Katten
Aug
28
2015
The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To Adopt a Kill Switch for NOM Katten
Aug
28
2015
What Happened to Edward Jones and Does it Impact Issue Price? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
28
2015
Cautionary Tale for EB-5 Investors Jackson Lewis P.C.
Aug
28
2015
CPMI and IOSCO Publish Joint Consultative Report on the Global Harmonization of OTC UTI Katten
Aug
28
2015
SEC Issues Risk Alert on Broker-Dealer Controls Regarding Retail Sales of Structured Securities Products Katten
Aug
28
2015
Original Judgment in Conflict Minerals Case Reaffirmed Hunton Andrews Kurth
Aug
28
2015
SEC Decreases Registration Statement Filing Fees for Fiscal Year 2016 Katten
Aug
27
2015
New Missouri Law Gives Securities Brokers Immunity for Protecting Seniors Armstrong Teasdale
Aug
27
2015
What’s Next for the SEC Pay-to-Play Rule Challenge? Covington & Burling LLP
Aug
27
2015
Stock Options: Did You Ever Wonder Whether “Within” Might Be A Superfluous Pleonasm? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
26
2015
DC Circuit Court Rejects Challenge to SEC Pay-to-Play Rule Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Aug
26
2015
Seventh Circuit Rejects Court Challenge to Pending SEC Administrative Enforcement Proceeding Proskauer Rose LLP
Aug
25
2015
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Investigates Washington-based Regional Center Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
25
2015
SEC Brings First Major Cyber Insider Trading Case Against International Hacking Ring Proskauer Rose LLP
Aug
25
2015
Nevada Enacts Provisions Permitting Ratification Of Corporate Acts Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
24
2015
SEC Clarifies Effect of Whistleblower Definitions as New Bill Pushes Extension of Time to Enforce Securities Law Violations Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Aug
24
2015
When A Million Dollar Stockbroker Goes Bad Mahany Law
Aug
24
2015
SEC Comments on Whistleblower Anti-Retaliation Provisions/Internal Reporting Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Aug
24
2015
California Amends Code To Authorize Worker Cooperatives Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
21
2015
DC Circuit Court Reaffirms Earlier Decision Partially Invalidating Conflict Minerals Rule on First Amendment Grounds Mintz
Aug
21
2015
CFTC Proposes Cleared Swap Reporting Amendments Katten
Aug
21
2015
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Recommends Changes to EMIR Katten
Aug
21
2015
Delaware Court Poised To Decide Whether Directors Are Agents Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
20
2015
Securities Exchange Comission Adopts Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule Hunton Andrews Kurth
Aug
20
2015
Unlucky 13: FTC Settles Charges under International Safe Harbor Framework Keller and Heckman LLP
Aug
20
2015
North Carolina Business Court Awards Rule 11 Sanctions For Baseless Fiduciary Duty Claim Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Aug
20
2015
Probably Don’t Do What Red Cross CEO Just Did re: Government Investigations Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Aug
20
2015
California, Nevada and 38 Other States Have These, But Delaware Doesn’t - Intermediate Courts of Appeal Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
19
2015
SEC’s Disclosure Requirement on Conflict Minerals Again Ruled Unconstitutional — What Now? Foley & Lardner LLP
Aug
19
2015
SEC Staff Issues New CDIs on General Solicitation Prohibition under Regulation D Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Aug
19
2015
CFTC/SEC Jurisdictional Battle Heats Up Over Dividend Indices Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
 

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