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RICO targets criminal enterprises by creating criminal penalties and allowing civil actions for racketeering violations. On the civil side, the statute permits "[a]ny person injured...

After significant effort and time, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") finally has adopted amendments to Form ADV and related brochure filing and delivery requirements ("Part 2 Amendments").

The Delaware Court of Chancery has issued its first decision applying the recently amended Section 144 of the DGCL, establishing a heightened presumption of director disinterestedness that extends beyond conflicted transaction safe harbors. The ruling clarifies that common allegations such as overlapping board service, business relationships, and minority co-investments will not suffice to rebut this presumption without substantial and particularized facts showing a disabling conflict.

The Central Bank has recently announced that it has amended its UCITS Notices, Non-UCITS Notices ("NU Notices") and related Guidance Notes effective 23 December 2011 and announced policy changes.

This DechertOnPoint summarises regulatory developments at the European Union, supra-national and UK levels in the investment funds and asset management sectors during the past two weeks.

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 ("DUA") introduces wide-ranging provisions, including reforms to UK data protection laws.

The CFTC has adopted significant amendments to its margin requirements for uncleared swaps, fundamentally changing how seeded funds are treated and expanding eligible collateral options. These changes eliminate longstanding barriers that forced fund sponsors to structure vehicles offshore and restricted the use of money market fund shares as collateral. The Final Rule brings U.S. regulations into closer alignment with international standards while addressing practical challenges faced by market participants

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), along with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), in consultation with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, issued a joint release on March 5, 2010, Guidance on Obtaining and Retaining Beneficial Ownership Inf

The SEC has proposed Regulation E-Delivery, a comprehensive framework that would permit issuers, broker-dealers, investment companies, and investment advisers to deliver required disclosures electronically by default without first obtaining investor consent. This proposed rule would replace decades of interpretive guidance and establish new conditions for electronic delivery, including safeguards for personal financial information and mandatory opt-out rights for investors who prefer paper copies.

Review Fourth Circuit's High Bar for Short-Seller Reports: The Fourth Circuit joined the Ninth Circuit in holding that anonymous and self-interested short-seller reports are generally unreliable...

The growth of mezzanine and other types of subordinate commercial real estate lending during the last two decades was enabled in part by the relative standardization of the intercreditor arrangements governing the rights and obligations of senior and junior lenders.

The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell establishes that federal pesticide labeling requirements preempt state failure-to-warn claims, resolving a nationwide circuit split in Roundup litigation.

This DechertOnPoint summarises current regulatory developments in the European Union and the UK and certain other EU member states in the investment funds and asset management sectors in the past four weeks

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on 26 October 2011 adopted Form PF, the form to be used by SEC-registered investment advisers to provide the new Financial Stability Oversight Council with information necessary to help it monitor the systemic risk created by private funds.

As part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, the UK government issued guidance on 7 May 2020 ‘strongly encouraging' contractual parties to ‘act responsibly and fairly in the national interest in performing...

The Delaware Court of Chancery held that a borrower's grant of a security interest in a license agreement constituted an "assignment" and "transfer" of payment rights, thereby triggering the counterparty's right...

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) on August 12, 2011 issued an interim final rule (Rule) setting forth regulations governing savings and loan holding companies (SLHCs).