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On April 7, 2006, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rendered a decision in the ongoing litigation challenging two aspects of the Securities and Exchange Commission's governance rule for mutual funds.

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. The bill contains a number of provisions related to accountability and executive compensation which will require additional disclosures by public companies.

On September 6, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a press release confirming that it will not seek a rehearing or Supreme Court review of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit relating to the proxy access rules.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced its decision to reject calls for smaller public companies to be exempt from compliance with the internal controls assessment and attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, including the recommendations for exemption in the recent Report of the SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies.

Amendments to the Virginia Stock Corporation Act (the "Act") have been passed by the 2010 General Assembly and will take effect today, July 1.

Partners Matthew Benedetto and Davina Pujari, Special Counsel Chris Rheinheimer and Associate Michael Amato penned an article for The Daily Journal outlining "the most important False Claims Act case in a decade."

Whistleblowers who assist the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including those residing outside the US, may receive substantial bounties under the new whistleblower provisions of the recently passed Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

The explosion of freelance work has changed the economy in a number of significant ways. After all, by some accounts, 43 percent of U.S. workers will have some involvement in the gig economy by as early as 2020.

With U.S. student loan debt totaling $1.5 trillion, employers are seeking ways to ease the burden of repayment for their employees and prospective employees.

By now we have all probably heard that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, which seeks to pump an estimated $2 trillion into the economy, was signed into law on March 27, 2020.

On August 25, 2004, the SEC published a proposal to postpone for one year the final phase-in period for acceleration of the due dates of quarterly and annual reports by "accelerated filers" in order to allow additional time and opportunity for "accelerated filers" and their auditors to focus on complying with new requirements regarding internal control over financial reporting.

In recent years much has been written about the "marriage penalty" when it comes to federal income tax.

On January 3, a coalition of 49 state attorneys general announced a $45 million settlement with PHH Mortgage Corporation, which was accused of misconduct related to its servicing of single-family residential mortgages.

October 23, 2013 (New York) — Global law firm Proskauer represented American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. ("ARCP") (NASDAQ: ARCP) in its definitive merger agreement to acquire Cole Real Estate Investments, Inc. ("Cole") (NYSE: COLE) in a transaction valued at $11.2 billion.

The agencies stated that their April 2020 supervisory and enforcement statement concerning Regulation X is no longer in effect.

Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the SEC to deliver a study on the standards of care applicable to broker-dealers and investment advisers and to evaluate whether there are gaps or shortcomings to the existing legal and regulatory standards.

A broker-dealer settled FINRA charges for inaccurately reporting over 1 billion reportable order events ("ROEs") to the Order Audit Trail System ("OATS")

A broker-dealer settled FINRA charges for failing to develop and implement a sufficient supervisory system over sales of non-traditional exchange traded products,