The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a bold new approach to shareholder and investor communications by investment companies. Based on its short 60-day comment period, the SEC may be aiming to adopt the proposal as early as the first quarter of 2021.
Visit this section to stay up-to-date as this process unfolds. Our asset management and investment fund lawyers will post alerts, host webinars, and provide you with other tools to prepare.
A first of its kind, The H2 Handbook provides a comprehensive summary of the regulatory, commercial, and policy issues that hydrogen may face on its path to becoming a global commodity and a significant part of the energy mix. The handbook covers hydrogen-related issues in a number of regions across the globe, including Australia, Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Check back regularly as new region handbooks are published.
On 22 December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments (the final rule) to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) to modernize the regulation of investment adviser advertising and solicitation practices.
On Monday, 19 April 2021, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) blog post warned companies to ensure that their artificial intelligence (AI) does not reflect racial or gender bias, and it indicated that failure to do so may result in “deception, discrimination—and an FTC law enforcement action.”
First there were CryptoKitties. Then came digital art, CryptoPunks and NBA Top Shot. But when Beeple’s digital art piece “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” sold at Christie’s for US$69 million, the NFT mania truly began.
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