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SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

Nine Advisers Face $1.24 Million Fallout from SEC’s Marketing Rule Sweep

September 30 is the SEC’s fiscal year-end, so it's no surprise to see an uptick in enforcement cases this month. The latest slew of settlements involved violations of the Marketing Rule (Advisers Act Rule 204(4)-1) for...more

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

Regulatory Roundup for August 2024

More Flack on WhatsApp, Hypothetical Performance SmackDown, A Timely Warning on the Pay-to-Play Rule, and Updates to Qualifying Venture Capital Fund Exemption - This month's big news from the SEC was more piggy-bank breaking...more

Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

Alabama Private Fund Advisers: Time to Become Less Private

The Alabama Securities Commission recently issued an Order exempting Alabama based investment advisers to “private funds” from the requirement to register as investment advisers with the ASC....more

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

Latest SEC Document Request Lists: What Private Fund Managers Should be Worrying About

Many private fund managers are breathing a sigh of relief after the Fifth Circuit struck down the Private Fund Rules (check out our blog post for more information). Do not, however, assume the SEC will stop its aggressive...more

Stark & Stark

More Than $390 Million in Penalties for Recordkeeping Failures

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges against 26 broker-dealers, investment advisers, and dually-registered firms for widespread and longstanding failures to maintain and preserve electronic...more

Alston & Bird

Navigating AI-Related Disclosure Challenges: Securities Filing, SEC Enforcement, and Shareholder Litigation Trends

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Companies’ accelerating reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) means heightened Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and shareholder plaintiff scrutiny. Our Securities Litigation Group underscores what companies need to...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

OBSI Joint Regulators Committee Releases 2023 Annual Report

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The Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (“CIRO”) recently published the Annual Report (“Report”) of the Joint Regulators Committee (“JRC”) of the Ombudsman for...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Five Issues for Wealthtech Companies to Consider Under the U.S. Securities Laws

Companies in the growing “wealthtech” space often face novel regulatory and legal issues under the federal securities laws. Wealthtech companies blend traditional asset management and brokerage services with new technologies:...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Fund Managers Must Assess Whether Microsoft/CrowdStrike Outage has Triggered Additional Form PF Filing

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The CrowdStrike computer failures that swept the globe on Friday, July 18, 2024, and persisted through the weekend may have impacted fund advisers relying on the Windows system, possibly triggering an “operations event” that...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Fifth Circuit Puts the Brakes on SEC’s Private Fund Rules: What’s Next For Private Fund Advisers

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In a continuation of recent court decisions overturning the rulemaking authority of federal agencies, a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC)...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Reminder: New Say-on-Pay Disclosures for Institutional Investment Managers Now Effective

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted amendments to Form N-PX on November 2, 2022. Previously, Form N-PX applied solely to registered investment companies (i.e., mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

EMDs Can Now Participate in Prospectus Offerings

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The securities regulators in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec and Saskatchewan have published a temporary exemption that allows exempt market dealers (“EMDs”) to participate in prospectus...more

Dechert LLP

SEC Charges Ethereum Developer Over Liquid Staking and Swap Programs

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The SEC has charged a leading developer on the Ethereum blockchain with engaging in the unregistered offer and sale of certain securities through a “liquid staking” program and with failing to register as a broker in...more

Troutman Pepper

SEC Charges Investment Advisor for Misleading Disclosures About Its Work With Short Publishers

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On June 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the first settled case in its ongoing review of collaborations between investment advisors and short publishers. The SEC fined affiliated investment advisors...more

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

Regulatory Roundup for June 2024

Private Fund Rules Cancelled, Survey Says Marketing Rule is a Lot of Work and the Intersection of Regulation BI and Investment Adviser’s Fiduciary Duty - Welcome to our June Regulatory Roundup, where we provide you with a...more

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Hedge Fund Pitch Deck is an "Advertisement" under the Advisers Act Marketing Rule

Recently, the SEC settled another administrative proceeding under the Advisers Act's Marketing Rule. This time, the SEC focused on advertisements that a hedge fund sponsor made to prospective investors. The hedge fund's...more

Akerman LLP

Fifth Circuit Strikes Down SEC’s Private Fund Advisers Rule

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On June 5, 2024, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (the Fifth Circuit) ruled, in a unanimous 3-0 decision, to vacate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) much maligned Private Fund Advisers; Documentation...more

Jones Day

Fifth Circuit Vacates SEC Private Fund Adviser Rules

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the new SEC regulation of private fund advisers exceeded the agency's statutory authority....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

RegFi Episode 36: The Intersection of AI and Securities Regulation

This week, RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt welcome Ignacio Sandoval, a partner at Orrick and former special counsel in the SEC's Office of Chief Counsel, to explore the timely and complex subject of...more

A&O Shearman

SEC private fund adviser rule vacated by Fifth Circuit

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On June 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had exceeded its statutory authority in adopting its controversial private fund advisers rule....more

Sullivan & Worcester

Are the SEC’s Private Fund Advisers Rules Now Dead? No, but they are on Life Support

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) has thrown a wrench into the gears of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in its attempt to regulate those investment advisers that...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Fifth Circuit Rules SEC Exceeded Its Authority in Adopting Private Fund Advisers Rule

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On June 5, 2024, a three-judge panel in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission exceeded its statutory authority in adopting the so-called “Private Fund Advisers Rule” (or the...more

King & Spalding

Fifth Circuit Vacates Private Fund Adviser Rules

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “court”) held that the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) exceeded its statutory authority when it adopted the Private Fund Adviser Rules...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

SEC Moves Closer to Regulating the Use of AI by Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held an open meeting of its Investment Advisory Committee on June 6, 2024, which featured a panel to review the use of artificial intelligence in investment decision making....more

White & Case LLP

5th Circuit Strikes Down Private Fund Adviser Rules

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On June 5, 2024, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) vacated new rules applicable to advisers to private funds1 recently enacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These...more

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