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Oct
15
2018
SEC Adopts Amendments to Rule 15c2-12 Bracewell LLP
Nov
4
2016
SEC Adopts Amendments to Rules 147 and 504, Adopts Rule 147A and Repeals Rule 505 Katten
Aug
24
2016
SEC Adopts Amendments to Rules Governing Administrative Proceedings Vedder Price
Jul
14
2016
SEC Adopts Amendments to Rules Governing Its Administrative Proceedings Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
2
2016
SEC Adopts Amendments to Rules on Access to Data Obtained by Security-Based Swap Data Repositories Katten
Oct
25
2023
SEC Adopts Amendments to Section 13 Reporting Requirements Mintz
Nov
10
2020
SEC Adopts Amendments to Shareholder Proposal Rule Vedder Price
Aug
25
2018
SEC Adopts Amendments To Simplify and Update Certain Disclosure Requirements Katten
Sep
6
2022
SEC Adopts Amendments to Whistleblower Program Rules Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
24
2020
SEC Adopts Amendments to Whistleblower Rules that Will Strengthen Some Aspects of the Program But Also Reduce Large Awards and Limit Protection Against Retaliation Zuckerman Law
Sep
9
2020
SEC Adopts Amendments to “Accredited Investor” Definition Robinson & Cole LLP
Nov
16
2020
SEC Adopts Amendments to “Accredited Investor” Definition Winstead
Jul
26
2016
SEC Adopts Amendments Updating its Rules of Practice for Administrative Proceedings Mintz
Apr
22
2016
SEC Adopts Business Conduct Rules and Chief Compliance Officer Requirements for Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants Katten
Jun
29
2019
SEC Adopts Capital, Margin and Segregation Requirements for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Participants Katten
Aug
31
2016
SEC Adopts Changes to Form ADV Affecting Advisers to Private Investment Funds Proskauer Rose LLP
Nov
7
2016
SEC Adopts Changes to Regulation D and Intrastate Offerings and Proposes Use of “Universal Proxy Cards” in Contested Director Elections Polsinelli PC
Oct
13
2023
SEC Adopts Changes to Schedule 13D and Schedule 13G Foley & Lardner LLP
Jul
15
2016
SEC Adopts Changes to Security-Based Swap Reporting Rules Katten
Mar
15
2024
SEC Adopts Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Rules: What Public Companies, Executives and Investors Need to Know McDermott Will & Emery
Jul
18
2012
SEC Adopts Compensation Committee and Adviser Independence Rules Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
May
27
2020
SEC Adopts Comprehensive Changes to “Significance” Tests and Financial Disclosure Requirements of Acquired and Disposed Businesses Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
13
2024
SEC Adopts Comprehensive Package of Climate-Related Disclosure Rules; Scope 3 Emission Metrics Excluded Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
25
2023
SEC Adopts Controversial and Sweeping Changes to Private Fund Rules; Requires Documentation of Annual Compliance Reviews Katten
Aug
1
2023
SEC Adopts Cybersecurity Incident and Risk Management Disclosure Rules Polsinelli PC
Sep
13
2012
SEC Adopts Disclosure Requirements for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers Pursuant to Dodd-Frank Hunton Andrews Kurth
Sep
11
2012
SEC Adopts Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Rule Hunton Andrews Kurth
Dec
7
2022
SEC Adopts Enhanced Proxy Voting Reporting Requirements for Funds and Managers Vedder Price
Oct
17
2019
SEC Adopts Exchange-Traded Fund Rule Faegre Drinker
Oct
12
2020
SEC Adopts Expanded “Accredited Investor” Definition Vedder Price
Aug
31
2020
SEC Adopts Expansion of “Accredited Investor” Definition Vedder Price
Aug
7
2020
SEC Adopts Expedited Review Process for Exemptive Applications Under the Investment Company Act Vedder Price
Aug
25
2023
SEC Adopts Extensive New Rules for Investment Advisers to “Private Funds,” but Excludes CLOs and Other “Securitized Asset Funds” from Those Rules Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
28
2011
SEC Adopts Family Office Rule Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Apr
1
2019
SEC Adopts FAST Act Disclosure Simplification and Modernization Amendments ArentFox Schiff LLP
 

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