LawFlash/Client Alert | Investment Management LawFlash
Michael Piracci, F. Mindy Lo, Laura Flores

Investment advisers operating registered investment companies and private funds that conduct more than a de minimis amount of speculative trading in futures, commodity options, and other commodity interests will no longer be exempt from registering with the CFTC as CPOs.

LawFlash/Client Alert | Investment Management LawFlash
Michael Piracci, F. Mindy Lo, Laura Flores

CFTC requests comments on proposed rules intended to harmonize certain CFTC and SEC disclosure, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements in an effort to mitigate the burden on registered investment companies required to comply with the two separate compliance regimes.

Outside Publication | Article
Andrew Donohue

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

Sweeping derivative reform legislation contains momentous changes to the way swaps and security-based swaps are regulated and reported.

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

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