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On February 19, 2009, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order that is meant to encourage investment in the nation’s electricity transmission infrastructure and assist companies in obtaining the necessary support from state regulatory authorities, generators and load-serving entities for the development of merchant transmission projects.

Equity compensation is a subject that captures the attention of private equity and venture capital investors and company management teams alike. For many years, the rules and standard techniques used to grant equity compensation were relatively static.

The U.S. Senate has passed the Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2010 (the "Senate Bill"), which, if enacted in its present form, may have a dramatic impact on anyone who advises or manages a hedge fund or other investment-related pool of capital.

The SEC has published the final release adopting as originally proposed a new antifraud rule under the Investment Advisers Act (the "Advisers Act") that prohibits fraud on investors in pooled investment vehicles.

Over the next decade, increasingly large amounts of wealth will pass by gift and inheritance from parents to children.

It seems to me that every other business article written today, in one way or another, touches on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.

On May 23, 2007, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) revised a previously proposed amendment to Rule 452 ("Giving Proxies by Member Organizations"), the NYSE rule that governs when brokers may submit proxies without having received voting instructions from their clients.

Recent changes to accounting rules governing asset retirement obligations, particularly with respect to environmental legal obligations, have put the spotlight on environmental disclosure. The new rules are quite complex and ambiguous.

On December 12, 2019, the FDIC and OCC issued their long-awaited proposed regulations to Modernize the Community Reinvestment Act (the "Proposed Regulations").

CDO and CLO Managers are assessing reporting requirements under Form PF, jointly promulgated by the SEC and the CFTC as required under the Dodd-Frank Act.

As anticipated, on January 25, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed amendments to the accredited investor standards in its rules under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), to reflect the requirements of Section 413(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act").

While SEC-registered investment advisers may not be covered by the new municipal advisor requirements, solicitors may be caught up and subjected to new fiduciary duties when soliciting municipal entity clients.

In the creative and complex world of hotel financing, many investors and developers are utilizing mezzanine loans in their transactions. Mezzanine financing provides funding to bridge the gap between the first mortgage loan and the owner's equity investment in the transaction. The borrower is usually formed as a special purpose bankruptcy remote entity in order to satisfy rating agency requirements for securitized transactions.

The U.S. market for collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) has suffered in recent years, the victim of guilt by association with its distant "acronymed" cousins—especially SIVs and CDOs backed by other securities collateralized by subprime home mortgages and other poorly underwritten consumer debt.

The sustainable investing market is witnessing remarkable growth: since 2018, annual cash flows into sustainable funds have increased tenfold.

Private equity firms and REITs with national investment strategies may need to consider that acquisitions that are acceptable in one jurisdiction could face significant hurdles in others...

In the first court decision to interpret Regulation FD, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on September 1, 2005, dismissed the SEC’s complaint against Siebel Systems, Inc. and two of the company’s senior executives.