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07/06/10 Impact of Financial Reform Legislation on Employee Benefit Plans

LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Michael Richman, Thomas D'Ambrosio

Despite the presence of several exclusions for plans and plan-related services, employee benefit plans will feel the effects of the new regulatory requirements.

06/17/10 The New Regulator on the Block—The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Kathleen Collins

A departure from the disclosure-driven precedents set by past consumer protection laws will usher in the era of the independent consumer financial protection regulator.

06/14/10 Proposed Corporate Governance Changes Applicable to Public Companies

LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Marlee Myers, John Hartigan, Linda Griggs, Howard Meyers

Proposed financial reform provisions relating to director elections, proxy access, board leadership structure, board risk committees, and broker voting will affect many public companies.

06/14/10 Systemic Risk Regulation: The Missing Link?

LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Kathleen Collins, Robert Mendelson

Gaps in oversight prompt the creation of a new interagency council that will be charged with identifying, monitoring, and responding to systemic risks in the financial sector.

05/28/10 Are You Ready for Derivative Reform? Congress to Reconcile Proposed Derivative Legislation

LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Thomas D'Ambrosio

Sweeping derivatives reforms are pending as the House and the Senate hand down new regulations for swaps and security-based swaps, imposing clearing, exchange trading, capital, margin, registration, reporting, recordkeeping, and business conduct requirements.

05/27/10 Financial Reform Addresses Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance

LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Marc Leone, Gary Rothstein

Proposed financial reform provisions move to address the perceived link between executive compensation and systemic risk by including substantive and procedural executive compensation requirements and imposing additional corporate governance and disclosure requirements.

05/21/10 Sweeping Changes Made to Labor and Employment Whistleblower Protections

LawFlash/Client Alert | Financial Regulatory Reform LawFlash
Thomas Linthorst, Sarah Bouchard

Financial reform legislation, if signed, will—among other changes—allow employee whistleblowers to bypass Sarbanes-Oxley administrative proceedings and its 90-day statute of limitations for bringing retaliation claims.

06/19/09 Financial Regulatory Reform—The Obama Administration Proposal

LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice

On June 17, 2009, the Obama administration released its recommendations to reform the financial regulatory system: Financial Regulatory Reform—A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation. Describing ... more

04/02/09 Toxic Asset Disposition Plan

LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice

To expedite the removal of troubled “legacy” loans and securities from books of U.S. financial institutions, the U.S. Treasury Department (the Treasury) announced on March 23 the next in a series of initiatives desi... more

12/01/08 Recent Regulatory Initiatives Pave Way for New Bank Investors

LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice

The announcement on Friday, November 21 of a regulatory first—the approval of a “shelf” or “expandable” charter—is the latest sign that bank regulators wish to encourage new equity investors i... more

10/13/08 Motion Picture Industry Benefits Accompany Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Richard Petretti

You no doubt already are aware that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the Act) was recently signed into law. But you may not be aware that among the “sweeteners” that were added to the bill are a few i... more

10/05/08 The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008: Impact of the Historic New Law

LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the “Act”) was signed into law by President Bush on October 3, 2008. Passage of the Act was the result of intense debate in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House o... more

07/08/08 FSA Proposes Extension of UK Major Shareholder Notification Requirements to Equity Contracts for Differences (Including Equity Swaps and Other Equity Derivatives)

LawFlash/Client Alert | Securities Industry FYI
P. Georgia Bullitt, Robert Mendelson

In the light of responses to its 2007 consultation paper on the disclosure of Contracts for Differences (CP07/20), the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided to implement a general disclosure regi... more

07/19/06 Legal á la Carte - Outsourcing and Financial Services: Regulatory and Commercial Considerations, New York

Presentation | Speech
Kathleen Collins, John Ayanian

Summer 2006 Hang on to Your Laptop—Please, Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing

Outside Publication | Article
Kathleen Collins

2 janvier 2006 Fourniture de logiciel: Livraison de bien ou prestation de service? Option Finance, n° 864