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Latest News in Asset Management
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April 20, 2018
Undoing CFPB Guidance May Yield Unintended Effects
The U.S. Senate’s recent passage of a measure to scrap Consumer Financial Protection Bureau guidance on auto lending has been framed by supporters as a business-friendly move to rein in a rogue agency, but some experts say this use of the Congressional Review Act could lead to greater uncertainty and more regulation by enforcement.
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April 20, 2018
Orphaned By Feds, SEC Judges Find Ally In O'Melveny Advocate
Administrative law judges at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can no longer count on Solicitor General Noel Francisco to defend them in their upcoming fight before the U.S. Supreme Court, but they may not need him if an attorney invited by the court can convince the justices there was no constitutional foul in the way they were hired.
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April 20, 2018
If Lucia Wins On SEC Judges, What Comes Next?
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider in Raymond J. Lucia v. SEC whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s previous hiring of administrative law judges violated the Constitution. Let's look at two issues on the horizon if the answer is yes, says Daniel Walfish of Walfish & Fissell LLP.
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April 20, 2018
Windups, Jury Charge Loom In Wilmington Trust Trial
Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys shipped 173 pages of jury-instruction proposals Friday to a federal judge hearing a criminal case in Delaware against four Wilmington Trust executives accused of hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in bad loans, with the words “past due” appearing 159 times.
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April 20, 2018
Disney Workers Urge 9th Circ. To Revive Valeant ERISA Suit
Former Walt Disney Co. employees have urged the Ninth Circuit to revive their suit alleging their pension plan trustees breached a fiduciary duty by not monitoring a mutual fund’s investments in now-embattled Valeant, arguing the lower court incorrectly treated their allegations as stock-drop claims.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Initial public offerings
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Spinoffs
- Franchise and management agreements
- Real estate deals
- Shareholder activism involving hedge funds and hedge fund managers
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Internal Revenue Service
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Financial company lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Bankruptcies involving assets managed by hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, or other investment managers
- Restructuring and distressed debt issues
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of asset management practices
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- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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