Updates in Securities Regulation, 2019

• ISBN: 9781543808957

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  The Securities Regulation Annual reviews the legislative, regulatory, and litigation developments in the dynamic area of securities regulation during the past year and previews issues that will likely arise in the year ahead. Securities regulation is evolving in response to recent changes in technology, presidential administrations, Securities and Exchange Commission leadership, and composition of the Supreme Court. The Annual provides concise and pithy updates across a variety of topics, contextualizes those developments, and predicts their future impacts, drawing from commentary by practitioners, scholars, and regulators. The Annual is intended for an audience of securities law scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students.

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  Hot topics discussed in the Annual include the application of the securities laws to initial coin offerings, recent amendments to exemptions from registration, the potential expansion of issuers’ ability to “test the waters,” insights from the first year of pay ratio disclosures, the Supreme Court’s anticipated decision on the scope of securities fraud scheme liability, the Second Circuit’s recent expansion of the tipping theory of insider trading, the current debate about mandatory arbitration of securities claims, potential threats to protections for whistleblowers, recent Second Circuit case law on the extraterritorial reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, recent proposals about the duties owed by broker-dealers and investment advisers, and the potential for forthcoming changes to shareholder proposal thresholds.