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Welcome to the inaugural Morris, Manning & Martin Financial Institutions Newsletter. This month marks something of an anniversary as I celebrate my first year as Chair of the MMM Financial Institutions Team.

Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") joined the three federal banking agencies, the Federal Reserve Board ("FRB"), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") (collectively, the "Agencies"), in issuing an interagency proposal on the so-called "Volcker Rule" under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Title I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("DFA") extends the purview of federal bank regulators beyond the traditional supervision of insured depository institutions and their holding companies to include oversight of systemically significant nonbank financial companies.

Today the U.S. Senate endorsed all provisions in H.R. 1249: Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, a comprehensive patent reform bill.

On October 12, 2012, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission promulgated rules that allow Chinese insurance companies to make overseas investments.

Following a protracted, controversial and hard-fought political battle to block or delay its issuance, the Federal Reserve Board ("FRB").

Two notable decisions were issued this month in the long-standing litigation campaign between Chevron Corporation, a group of Ecuadorian plaintiffs alleging environmental injuries from oil exploration and production activities in Ecuador, and the Republic of Ecuador.

This is an updated version of the StayCurrent Client Alert published on 2 July 2012 "New Italian Measures Facilitate Debt Restructuring and Protect DIP Financing", following the conversion of law decree No. 83 of 22 June 2012 (with amendments) (the "Decree") into law No. 134 of 7 August 2012.

A discussion on a number of cases on significant issues relating to various aspects of intellectual property law.

On February 27, 2013, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds relating to whether plaintiffs invoking the "fraud-on-the-market" presumption of reliance must establish the element of materiality before obtaining class certification in federal securities class actions.

The March 11, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which the Japanese government formally named as the "Great Eastern Japan Earthquake" (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) was undeniably a disaster of Biblical proportions.

When the U.S. recently changed its securities laws to enable equity crowdfunding, advocates of the practice to the North started urging Canadian securities administrators to follow suit.

A discussion on the recent opinion, in re Century Aluminum Co. Securities Litigation,where the Ninth Circuit provided support for an increasingly vigorous application of the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard.

On March 26, 2012, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the "Agencies") jointly issued for comment proposed new leveraged lending guidance, to be applicable to substantially all financial institutions regulated by the Agencies, that would replace the existing guidance issued in April 2001.

A decision recently handed down by the Delaware Chancery Court, CML V, LLC v. Bax, indicates that creditors of a limited liability company ("LLC") organized under Delaware law do not have standing to institute derivative suits against an LLC’s management, even when the LLC is insolvent, unless the right is expressly set forth in the LLC’s organizational docu-ments or external agreements.

Pharmaceutical disputes, being the largest and fastest-growing business sectors in the world are increasingly being settled through international arbitration, particularly in the context of ...