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On August 1, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the launch of a task force on artificial intelligence (AI) that...

On March 4, 2026, SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins delivered remarks at the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Artificial Intelligence Innovation Series Roundtable on Strategy and Governance Principles...

In one of many executive orders issued by President Trump during his first few days in office, the president has affirmed his campaign promises regarding digital assets...

Two different judges in the same Massachusetts state court dismissed two separate class actions – each brought against an adviser to a group of closed-end funds, certain of the adviser’s affiliates and the funds’ board by holders of the funds’ common shares (and each case involving a different adviser, closed-end fund group and board), holding that those claims must be brought derivatively on the funds’ behalf rather than as direct class actions.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the federal bank regulatory agencies, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, in consultation with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, issued guidance (the "Guidance") that clarifies and consolidates existing regulatory expectations regarding the information financial institutions must obtain regarding beneficial owners for certain accounts and customer relationships.

The IRS recently issued a final regulation (the "ESPP Final Regulation") relating to options granted under an employee stock purchase plan (an "ESPP") as defined in Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the "Code"), and a final regulation (the "Reporting Regulation") regarding the reporting requirements for incentive stock options granted under Section 422 of the Code ("ISOs") and ESPPs.

Twice a year, India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry consolidates and updates the country’s foreign direct investment ("FDI") policy framework.

The Department of Justice ("DOJ") Antitrust Division has fined Comcast’s CEO, Brian L. Roberts, $500,000 for failure to file notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino ("H-S-R") Act to report his acquisition of additional shares of Comcast voting securities.

President Obama signed the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 into law on February 4, 2009 (the “Act”).

The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act ("the Act") requires employers to obtain the prior written consent of applicants or employees whose credit reports are sought or who are subject to background checks for an employment purpose – including hiring decisions and evaluations of employees for promotion, reassignment or retention.

In "McLemore v. Regions Bank", No. 10-5480 (6th Cir. June 8, 2012), a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that ERISA preempted state law.

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 was signed into law on January 2, 2013, and has finally provided a degree of certainty regarding the federal transfer tax system, making permanent the exemption levels from the 2010 Tax Relief Act.

On October 5, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in "In re Beacon Associates Litigation", 09-cv-777 (LBS) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 5, 2010) issued a lengthy and complicated ruling on motions to dismiss the complaint in an action involving investments with Bernard Madoff made through a feeder fund (the "Fund").

On May 1, 2012, FINRA announced that it had sanctioned four member firms a total of 9.1 million, including fines of $7.3 million and restitution of $1.8 million, for selling leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds.

The Second Circuit recently affirmed a decision by a New York federal court dismissing claims by investors in certain ProShares exchange-traded funds that the prospectuses contained in the registration statements for those funds failed to disclose risks in violation of Sections 11 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933.

Throughout the United States, many municipalities are facing severe financial distress and being forced to examine Chapter 9 -- the section of the Bankruptcy Code governing municipality eligibility -- as a means of eliminating debt and restructuring their obligations.