The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recognized that processing delays associated with the unusually large number of Form ID applications being submitted due to the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act may contribute to FPIs failing to meet the March 18, 2026, deadline to comply with such Section 16(a) reporting requirements.
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Regulations amending Chapter 517 of the Florida Securities and Investor Protection Act (FSIPA) took effect Oct. 1, 2024 (the Regulations). While the Regulations revise certain existing securities and transactional exemptions from registration, one amendment imposes the bad actor disqualification provisions in Rule 506(d) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
At a speech to the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Capital Markets Association on April 4, 2022, SEC Chair Gary Gensler took the opportunity to again promote his strong desire to add greater regulation and oversight to the digital asset and cryptocurrency markets. While reminding the audience of the SEC’s mission to protect investors, facilitate
On Aug. 5, 2020, the SEC proposed modifications to current rules and forms that would significantly change the disclosures required of mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) that report on SEC Registration Statement Form N-1A, so-called “open-ended funds.” The scheme would create a new rule, 498B, and amend several rules and forms. The rule
Shareholders Carl A. Fornaris and William B. Mack of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP will be participating at the Financial Markets Association’s 2017 Treasury and Capital Markets Legal and Legislative Issues Conference, Oct. 25 – Oct. 26. Mack is also a member of the conference’s 2017 Program Planning Committee.
Fornaris will be moderating, “Recent
John Kaufmann, Of Counsel at Greenberg Traurig, has authored an article titled “Caveat Re-Emptor” for Volume 15, Issue 1 of CCH’s Journal of Taxation of Financial Products. The article examines the treatment of both “capital markets repos” (i.e., sale-repurchase transactions entered into with respect to liquid property, using standard documentation) and what
On Jan. 12, 2017, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its annual Examinations Priorities for 2017 (Exam Priorities), which is available for download here. As in past years, the Exam Priorities focus around three thematic areas, the first and the last of which