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The effective date for the final rules is March 8, 2019.

On October 2, government enforcement partner Jason Brown and government enforcement associate Aaron Katz published an article titled "Can a corporation be liable for ‘violating’ an ambiguous regulation?" in Inside Counsel magazine.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act, H.R. 2668, giving the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC")...

On March 24th, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment will hold a hearing on "Capital Formation and Reducing Small Business Burdens."

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it has approved final rules implementing Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

On June 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules and rule amendments to establish capital, margin and segregation requirements under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.

The pay ratio rule, which was adopted on August 5, 2015, closely tracks the initial 2013 rule proposal, subject to limited exceptions.

SEC Division of Trading and Markets Director Brett W. Redfearn will step down from his position by the end of 2020. Mr. Redfearn has served as Director since October 2017.

SEC Chairman Mary Jo White recently stated at a Senate Banking Committee hearing that the SEC was examining whether the insider trading rules should be expanded to include the commodities markets.

On April 29, 2015, in a 3-2 vote of commissioners cast along party lines, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed rules to implement Section 953(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...

On February 10, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") adopted rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to regulate both U.S. and foreign dealers...

February 17, 2016, the FDIC and SEC approved the issuance of a proposed rule concerning how the agencies would administer a Dodd-Frank Act Title II orderly liquidation authority proceeding for broker-dealers.

The SEC is now looking at the filings of private equity firms with greater scrutiny than ever before.

This week at the ABA's 37th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime in foggy San Francisco, a panel of consumer fraud practitioners and enforcers offered insights...

The U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Review Board ("Board") recently held, in Johnson v. Siemens Building Techs., Inc. No. 08-032, that the whistleblower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX") extend coverage to a non-public subsidiary whose financial information is included in the consolidated financial statements of its publicly traded parent. Section 806 of SOX provides whistleblower protection for employees of publicly traded companies, which used to be defined as a "com

Vermont Attorney General Sues Fossil Fuel Companies over Alleged Deceptive Marketing Tactics.

State attorneys general from Florida, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Montana are investigating recycling groups like the U.S. Plastics Pact and GreenBlue Institute...

FDIC and OCC released a report detailing activities and investments that banking entities may engage in under state and federal law.