In June 2014, Morrison & Foerster published the white paper "Individual Liability: What's Behind the Headlines?"

In September 2014, Morrison & Foerster partner Angela Kleine spoke at the Mortgage Bankers Association's Regulatory Compliance Conference.

In October 2014, Morrison & Foerster partner Donald Lampe presented "TILA-RESPA Combined Disclosures: The Executive Perspective" with the Community Mortgage Lenders of America.

On April 1st, the Bureau issued updated exam procedures on the new TILA and RESPA rules.

On March 10, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its long-awaited, statutorily-mandated report to Congress on the use of pre-dispute arbitration provisions in consumer financial products.

Today, FINRA announced that its Board of Governors had approved publication of a Regulatory Notice seeking comment on rule amendments that would remove certain impediments to capital formation...

Dodd-Frank Act Section 989G amended the Sarbanes-Oxley Act so that Section 404(b) does not apply with respect to "any audit report prepared for an issuer that is neither a ‘large accelerated filer’ nor an ‘accelerated filer’ as those terms are defined" by the SEC—essentially eliminating the auditor attestation requirement for smaller reporting companies.

Today, the Staff of the SEC published another study required by the JOBS Act.

A new report released last week by PwC US analyzed the use of non-GAAP measures (NGMs) in IPOs and found that nearly 60% of the IPOs surveyed included at least one NGM.

In March 2013, Nasdaq and SharesPost announced Nasdaq Private Market (NPM), a joint venture intended to create a preeminent marketplace for private growth companies

The Federal Agencies requested comment on their proposed revisions to interagency guidance on the Community Reinvestment Act.

We have written a fair bit about business development companies and the important role that they serve as alternative capital providers.

In November we reported that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it was seeking public comments on the use of the term "natural" on food labeling.

The Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018 is now law. As we discussed in a previous post, the Act changes the look-back period for calculating gross annual ...

Howard Morris, head of the Business Restructuring + Insolvency group at Morrison & Foerster in London, recently authored "A ‘palliative' approach to insolvency in the retail world?" for Global Restructuring Review.

Facebook has begun to test a new feature that marks as "satire" material from satirical or comedic websites that appears in the guise of "fake news."

In connection with a new staff report, the Federal Trade Commission examined 121 popular apps used to comparison shop, find online deals and pay with mobile devices.

Breaking the ice. No one expected that people dumping buckets of ice water over their heads for charity would become the viral phenomenon that it has.

Big Brother isn't just watching. A single mother in upstate New York was surprised to find that she had a Facebook page in her name, complete with photos of her, her son, and her niece.

Aereo, the startup broadcasting service that lost big in the U.S. Supreme Court last June, just lost another, and possibly its last, court battle.