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The Big Data revolution has begun to have a transformative impact on commercial markets. Businesses are continually developing new ways to capitalize on the increased availability of analytic services and drastic reductions in the costs of data collection and storage. …
The following post comes to us from Wendy Gerwick Couture, Associate Professor at the University of Idaho College of Law. It is based on her recent paper entitled “Answering Halliburton II’s Unanswered Question: Burdens of Production and Persuasion on Price …
[On December 18, 2014] The Federal Reserve [] extended the Volcker Rule conformance period for legacy covered funds from July 21, 2015 to July 21, 2016, and also granted a further one year extension until July 21, 2017.
At 3 …
The following post comes to us from Amy J. Sepinwall, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. It is based on her recent article, “Corporate Piety and Impropriety: Hobby Lobby’s Extension of …
The following post comes to us from Brandon L. Garrett, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. It is based on his new book, Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations, which was …
The following post comes to us from Salil K. Mehra, Professor of Law at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. It is based on his recent paper, “De-Humanizing Antitrust: The Rise of the Machines and the Regulation of Competition,” …
The following post reproduces the text of a letter written by a group of corporate law professors at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in response to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ request for comments …
When the Los Angeles Clippers sold for $2 billion, owners of sports franchises had good reason to rethink the value of their teams. In particular, Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, had cause to regret his not yet …
The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (the “Staff”) issued IM Guidance Update No. 2014-4 discussing how a registered adviser or its investment advisory representatives (“IARs”) may use public commentary about them that appears on independent, third‑party social …
On September 30, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Division of Trading and Markets addressed an issue of great interest to the compliance and legal community concerning the circumstances under which the compliance and legal staffs
The following is a joint press release from six federal agencies on the revised credit risk retention rule, available here.
Six federal agencies on Wednesday issued a notice revising a proposed rule requiring sponsors of securitization transactions to retain …
The Division of Clearing and Risk (the “Division”) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) recently issued no-action relief for certain treasury affiliates within non-financial companies from the clearing requirements of Section 2(h)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”).
Since the effectiveness of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) has finalized many of the rules that implement the detailed regulatory regime outlined by the
The following is a speech delivered by Chairman Mary Jo White at the Investment Company Institute General Membership Meeting on May 1, 2013.
It is truly an honor to be here at the ICI, and to be here as – …
In recent years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have aggressively investigated and enforced both the anti-bribery and accounting provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Many of these matters have been the …