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On July 12, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") voted to publish an Interpretive Release (the "Release") that provides guidance on money managers' use of client commissions to pay for brokerage and research services under the "soft dollars" safe harbor in Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

In our latest roundup, the commercial real estate sector continues to wobble, construction booms and busts, flood insurance premiums reach eye-watering levels, and more.

Since December 2006, plaintiffs’ class action firms in California and elsewhere have filed over 200 nationwide class actions in federal court against a broad spectrum of retailers and restaurants alleging violations of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ("FACTA").

The Internal Revenue Service has recently announced plans to conduct payroll tax audits of approximately 6,000 companies and increase its focus on compliance issues relating to section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

China has published a series of conforming amendments to certain existing regulations governing foreign invested entities in China.

Two major forces are combining to create extraordinary opportunities for infrastructure project participants in the United States.

On February 5, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an important credit default swap (CDS) opinion indicating that such transactions should be strictly construed according to the terms of the contract at issue, without resort to the parties’ overall hedging strategy.

The Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, John White, recently provided a preview of the areas that are under particular scrutiny, as the SEC’s Staff reviews the first wave of proxy statements filed under the new executive compensation disclosure rules.

Laws surrounding music licensing and royalty rates for Webcasters are changing, and the final outcome, so far, is uncertain. In March, 2007, the Copyright Royalty Board ("CRB") issued an Initial Determination with a new payment scheme whereby royalty rates for Webcasters would be based on a "per performance" calculation instead of having the option to use an "aggregate tuning hours" basis, with royalty rates starting at $.0008 per performance in 2006 and increasing to $.0019 per performance by 2

Members of leading accounting firms in the United States have recently advised companies that their stock compensation plans may need to be amended to avoid future accounting charges on outstanding stock awards in the event of capitalization or stock adjustments such as stock splits, spin-offs, and stock dividends.

While U.S.-focused hedge funds struggled for much of 2005, hedge funds focused on certain Asian strategies posted record performance numbers last year. Specifically, the rising tide in Japan, evidenced by the approximately 20% increase in the benchmark Nikkei 225 Index, produced returns in the 30% to 40% range by certain Japanese equity long-short hedge fund managers.

Compensation committees serving public corporations are facing unprecedented scrutiny as they react to recent executive pay reform efforts led by federal lawmakers and agencies, institutional shareholders and corporate governance watchdogs.

In recent weeks, corporate stock option practices have come under extreme regulatory and media scrutiny. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission initiated investigations of more than 80 companies for potential accounting and disclosure problems relating to the dating of their stock option grants. Companies and individuals have been targeted with grand jury subpoenas, and federal indictments in this area have made front-page news.

The "Texas Two-Step" is a controversial legal maneuver used by businesses to shed mass-tort liabilities in bankruptcy. In a recent article featured in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal...

This trip followed her visit in April this year, when Minister Rivers attended similar meetings on Capitol Hill, and with the US Treasury and State departments.

On April 11, the U.S. Department of Defense ("DOD") published proposed regulations prohibiting certain lending practices directed at members of the Armed Forces and their dependents. The Secretary of Defense must promulgate a final regulation prior to October 1, 2007, and, therefore, is seeking comment regarding the regulation by or before June 11.

In a move that was likely celebrated by United States governmental officials, Swiss banking secrecy eroded even further on Thursday, March 6, 2014.