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ARTICLE · 04 APRIL 2012

Financial Services Alert – April 3, 2012

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The FDIC, FRB and OCC (collectively, the "Agencies") jointly released proposed revisions to the Agencies’ leveraged finance guidance issued in 2001.

United StatesFinance and Banking
Robert Kurucza
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Developments of Note

  • Federal Banking Agencies Propose Changes in Leveraged Finance Guidance
  • Eighth Circuit Applies Harris Associates in Affirming District Court's Dismissal of Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Case
  • OCC Issues Interpretive Letter Concluding that a Capital Maintenance Agreement is a Formal Enforcement Order that Limits the Conversion Rights of a Federal Savings Association under Section 612(c) of the Dodd-Frank Act
  • Guidance on the Treatment of Private Fund Portfolio Companies for Purposes of Form ADV
  • Advisers Act Contract Requirements for Newly Registering Advisers

Other Items of Note

  • New ERISA Litigation Update Available
  • Federal Agencies Clarify Effective Date for Section 716 of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act

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