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At its open meeting on December 5, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "Commission" or "CFTC") took action on several significant items, including (1) adopting significant amendments to Rule 1.25, which governs the investing of commodity customer segregated funds and to Rule 30.7 as well, which governs the investing of funds held in a foreign futures or options customer account and (2) proposing rules for public comment which would establish a process for a swap execution facilit

President Obama, on June 17, 2009, following in the footsteps of Treasury Departments going back a half century, announced his Administration’s plan to improve the effectiveness of the federal regulatory structure.

On June 1, 2011, the long dormant Indian merger control rules in the Indian Competition Act 2002 (the Competition Act) will finally come into effect. Several last-minute changes reflect responses to significant concerns; controversial issues and uncertainties remain, nevertheless, and the regime may be "clarified" further.

On Thursday, March 8, 2012, the House of Representatives passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, H.R. 3606 (the ―JOBS Act‖), which, if passed in similar form by the Senate and signed into law by the President, would significantly alter certain aspects of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the ―Exchange Act‖), and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the ―Securities Act‖), that are important to issuers of securities, including privately

On March 12, 2009, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ("ISDA") published the 2009 ISDA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committees and Auction Settlement Supplement (the "Auction Supplement") to the 2003 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions (the "CDS Definition") together with a new protocol (known as the Big Bang Protocol (the "Protocol")) specifying standard auction settlement procedures and related terms applicable to credit default swap transactions ("CDS").

By all appearances, the SEC has armed its staff with authorization to use a powerful weapon in its current efforts to root out manipulation in the securities and credit default swaps of financial institutions.

The Supreme Court today agreed to resolve a circuit conflict and determine whether a party has 30 or 60 days to file an appeal of a False Claims Act case to the court of appeals from a district court decision.

A highly contentious topic in False Claims Act litigation is the application of the pleading standard in Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to qui tam complaints.

The SEC has issued two new compliance and disclosure interpretations on the so-called "Unbundling Rule".

In late 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a seminal decision rejecting the government’s damages theory in a civil False Claims Act "false certification" case.

On May 13, 2009, the European Commission (“EC”) announced in a press release that it had imposed a fine of €1.06 billion (approx. $1.45 billion) on US-based chipmaker Intel Corporation for violating EU antitrust rules.

On December 17, the President signed into law the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 ("Act").

In a letter dated June 2, 2009, to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the "NY Fed") and eleven other regulators, a group of dealers and buy-side participants comprising the Operations Management Group (the "OMG") set forth a renewed commitment to implement additional changes to improve risk management and market structure for OTC derivatives (the "OMG Letter").

On April 20, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice ("DoJ") and the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") released their highly anticipated revisions to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (the "Guidelines").

Yesterday, the UK Takeover Panel issued Statement 2012/8 following its review of the changes to the Takeover Code introduced in September 2011.

In a significant departure from prior guidance, on January 31, 2014, the Division of Trading and Markets of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a No-Action letter that would permit a person giving advice on mergers and acquisitions transactions to receive transaction-based compensation under certain conditions without having to register as a broker-dealer under Section 15(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. .

The Department of Labor (the “DOL”) recently released proposed regulations regarding fiduciary requirements for disclosure in participant-directed individual account plans (e.g., 401(k) plans) under section 404(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”).

The Department of Labor (the “DOL”) recently released proposed regulations regarding fiduciary requirements for disclosure in participant-directed individual account plans (e.g., 401(k) plans) under section 404(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”).