Walter, along with five SEC General Counsels and four Directors of the Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance and a number of legal academics and senior practitioners, submitted a letter defending the SEC’s authority to promulgate the Proposal. [read post]

Campaign Finance: The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. [read post]

The core guidance if the Adelante--Iré Aye Oyale Tesi Lese Olofi (roughly: this will be a good year for development and finance at home). [read post]

The Bank Policy Institute noted in response to the Capital Proposal that “private equity, private debt, hedge funds, finance companies and other unregulated firms” would likely gain market share with higher margins.8 These entities also may find opportunities to help banking organizations directly by facilitating transactions that reduce risk (e.g., credit risk transfer trades), acquiring credit exposure through securitizations and commercial paper conduits, and purchasing… [read post]

As long-time readers of this blog know, one of the long-range concerns in the D&O insurance industry is the possible exposures of corporate directors and officers to liability claims arising from climate change (as discussed most recently here). [read post]