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Regulatory Roundup for August 2024

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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

Mayer Brown

Securities and Exchange Commission Brings First Enforcement Actions Over “AI-Washing”

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On March 18, 2024 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) announced that it had settled charges in separate actions against two investment advisers, Delphia (USA) Inc. (“Delphia”) and Global...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

SEC Gets in Line at the Genesis Bankruptcy

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On January 31, 2024, bankrupt Genesis Global Holdco, LLC, on behalf of its subsidiary Genesis Global Capital, LLC1 asked the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to approve a settlement reached...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC Reaches Settlement with App Annie: Alternative Data and Implications for Investors

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On September 14, 2021, the SEC announced it had reached a settlement with “a leading alternative data provider,” App Annie, and its co-founder and CEO, Bertrand Schmitt, to settle securities fraud charges related to their...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

SEC’s Recent Enforcement Actions a Sign of Increased Scrutiny of SPACs

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In one of the most high-profile actions recently undertaken by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth Office, the SEC in late October settled securities fraud charges for nearly $40 million against Akazoo, S.A.,...more

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SEC Settles First-Of-Its-Kind $13m DeFi Tech Action

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SEC Settles First-Of-Its-Kind $13m DeFi Tech Action; NASDAQ Board Diversity Rules Challenged in Fifth Circuit; Delaware Court of Chancery Declines to Enforce Contractual Limitations on Liability to Bar Contractual Fraud...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Roars Into March Setting Stage for Heavy Enforcement Activity

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Fittingly, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) came into March like a lion. Over the first 10 days of March, several significant enforcement and compliance developments emanated from the SEC.  This notice briefly...more

Goodwin

SEC Issues No-Action Relief On Registered Funds’ Custody Of Loan Interests

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In this Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was very active this week, having (i) issued no-action relief allowing registered funds to engage in self-custody of interests in loans that are originated,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Files First Charges for Inadequate Public Company COVID-19 Disclosures

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In a prelude of things to come for public companies, on December 4 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued restaurant operator The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated for making misleading disclosures regarding the...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Be Careful What You Say – Or Rather What You Don’t Say – AVEO Pays $4 Million to SEC to Settle Fraud Charges

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In March 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company, agreed, without admitting or denying the allegations, to pay $4 million to...more

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