California voters on Election Day passed the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), an update and partial overhaul to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the landmark 2018 privacy law. The new CPRA strengthens existing...more
11/12/2020
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month in Liu v. SEC raises the question of whether disgorgement payments in SEC enforcement actions should now be deductible for federal income tax purposes. The Court held that a...more
7/13/2020
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Making clear that it remains focused on misallocation of fees and expenses by private fund advisers, the SEC last week brought a settled administrative proceeding against Monomoy Capital Management, L.P., a New York-based...more
This is the seventh and last post in our start-of-year series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed sanctions and export controls trends in 2020. We...more
1/28/2020
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