The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has decided not to petition the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision to vacate a controversial package...more
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations (“DOE”) issued a Risk Alert (the “Alert”) entitled “Initial Observations Regarding Advisers Act Marketing Rule Compliance.” The Alert describes...more
The SEC’s Division of Examinations (“DOE”) recently released its 2024 examination priorities (available here). The SEC provides examination priorities on an annual basis to convey to registrants specific areas that DOE will...more
On September 6, 2023 the SEC released a risk alert (available here) detailing how the Division of Examinations (the “Division”) utilizes a risk-based approach for both selecting which SEC-registered investment advisers...more