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Potential Impact of the SEC’s Rulemaking Agenda on Crypto

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The current SEC administration has expressed the view that most crypto assets are offered and sold as securities and has proposed several rules that address “digital asset securities” or “crypto asset securities.” In this...more

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SEC Reopens Comment Period for Proposal on New Safeguarding Rule for Investment Advisers

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Who may be interested: Investment Advisers. Quick Take: The SEC recently reopened the comment period for proposed rule changes that would amend and redesignate Rule 206(4)-2 under the Advisers Act (the “Current Custody...more

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SEC Spotlights Crypto With New “Safeguarding Rule” Proposal

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On February 15, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published sweeping and controversial proposed amendments to Rule 206(4)-2 (Custody Rule) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act). Last...more

White & Case LLP

Key Takeaways from the SEC and FINRA Joint Statement on Broker-Dealer Custody of Digital Asset Securities

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As part of the continuing dialogue with market participants working toward developing methodologies for establishing possession or control by broker-dealers over their customers' digital asset securities, on July 8, 2019, the...more

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Blockchain and the Law - Overview of token sales and bitcoin property rights

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On March 29, 2017, Perkins Coie partner Dax Hansen and associate Josh Boehm were invited to the Cyber Initiative at Stanford Law School to deliver a presentation on several cutting-edge legal issues relating to blockchain...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Are Your Customer Accounts in Order? SEC Announces Sweep of Broker-Dealers and Implementation of the Customer Protection Rule...

On June 23, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced that it would begin a coordinated effort across divisions to identify potential violations by broker-dealers of Rule 15c3-3 (the “Rule”) under the...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Private Equity: SEC Custody Rule—One Size Does Not Fit All

As a result of the Dodd-Frank Act, since 2012 investment advisers that operate pooled investment vehicles such as hedge funds and private equity funds with $150 million of assets under management became subject to the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

This Week In Securities Litigation

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The Commission brought a series of administrative proceedings this week and one civil injunctive action. The civil injunctive action was an insider trading case. The administrative proceedings centered on FCPA violations, the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"SEC Provides Custody Rule Relief for Privately Offered Securities"

On August 1, 2013, the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission published an IM Guidance Update (the “Update”) regarding Rule 206(4)-2 (the “Custody Rule”) under the Investment Advisers Act...more

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