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Recent market gyrations have made even strong-stomached investors a little queasy. In general, maintaining your positions in a well-diversified portf

On November 13, 2006, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Compliance & Legal Division hosted its Fall Compliance Seminar in New York City. During the course of the day, and across a variety of panel sessions, regulators from the SEC, SROs and the states repeatedly touched upon several issues that may form the central areas of inquiry in 2007.

The prospect for an extended period of high levels of home loan delinquencies, foreclosure proceedings and real estate owned (REO) is causing regulators, mortgage lenders and investors to reexamine traditional approaches to handling REO.

On May 20, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") published proposed amendments to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act"), and Rule 206(4)-2 thereof, commonly referred to as the "custody rule."

On August 3, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") published proposed amendments to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act") to eliminate perceived "pay-to-play" practices by investment advisers providing advisory services to government clients.

There continues to be a push in financing markets for capital raises where the proceeds will be used for a range of social impact purposes.

In response to concerns raised by lenders and loan servicers, the Chicago City Council recently amended an ordinance that addresses mortgagee and securitization trustee liability for vacant properties located in the city.

The software industry has undergone a dramatic transformation since 2021, with growth rates collapsing and market valuations shifting from growth premiums to cash flow fundamentals. As AI reshapes competitive dynamics and strategic buyers hunt for value in repriced assets, understanding what drives software valuations today requires looking beyond traditional SaaS metrics to product strength and AI resilience.

Stock market volatility during the last couple of years has reignited a long-running debate over active versus passive investing. Both strategies have supporters and critics and many experts...

Given the absence of sufficient assets to satisfy the claims of all of a bankrupt debtor’s creditors in the great majority of cases, bankruptcy is of necessity a process founded upon negotiation and compromise.

As a result of the Indian gaming phenomenon, many tribes have experienced tremendous economic growth and opportunity. However, gaming revenue is more than ust money. It is the source that helps us examine how we turn our cultural understanding and communities’ wealth – people, land, time, ideas, culture – into governmental practices that sustains healthy tribal economies.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky has affirmed the allowance of fees and the reimbursement of expenses for an investment banker retained by the debtors pursuant to the sale of the debtors’ assets (the "Assets") in an arrangement that provided for fees and expenses to be based, in part, on the amount of the successful credit bid.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its much anticipated decision in In "Re River Road Hotel Partners, LLC", __ F.3d __ (7th Cir., June 28, 2011). In the closely watched case, the Seventh Circuit declined to follow the Third Circuit’s decision in "Philadelphia Newspapers", 599 F.3d 298 (3d Cir. 2010), holding instead that secured lenders have the right to credit bid in "free and clear" asset sales where their liens are being stripped, whether those sales occur under

Imagine you are a prospective LP considering an allocation into your strategy bucket. Would you like what you saw when you came across your fund? Not just the first impression – but the entire experience?

In a long-awaited development, James H. Freis, Jr., Director of the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), announced at an anti-money laundering ("AML") conference this week that FinCEN is "revisiting the topic of investment advisers" and drafting a rule proposal that would require certain investment advisers to establish and implement AML programs.

Amid the intense market volatility seen over the last several years, investors are looking for ways to mitigate adverse portfolio fluctuations

The trend of intense tax regulation of executive compensation continued last week when the IRS published 240 pages of proposed regulations interpreting Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.