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ARTICLE · 06 JULY 2011

Financial Services Alert - July 5, 2011

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.

United StatesFinance and Banking

Developments of Note

  • Massachusetts State Court Dismisses Two Separate Class Actions by Holders of Common Shares in Closed-End Funds Alleging Injury from Redemption of the Funds' Auction Rate Preferred Shares
  • FFIEC Releases Supplemental Guidance on Internet Banking Authentication
  • SEC Settles Administrative Proceedings Over Pricing of Securities Backed by Subprime Mortgages in Mutual Fund and Closed-End Fund Portfolios as FINRA and State Authorities Take Related Action
  • SEC Proposes Amendments to Broker-Dealer Financial Reporting Rule

Other Items of Note

  • Goodwin Procter Issues Client Alert on New SEC Rules Implementing Advisers Act Registration Exemptions
  • Final Form SLT and Instructions Now Available

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