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2012 annual compliance obligations: what you need to know

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 2 2012

In light of the current regulatory environment, now more than ever, it is critical for you to comply with all of the legal requirements and best practices applicable to Investment Advisers

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - October 10, 2011

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 10 2011

The theme of this past week is anger, primarily espoused by the Occupy Wall Street protests who continue to garner attention for their disenchantment with the financial services industry, corporate America and government

Exclusion for derivatives sale applies regardless of legal theory asserted

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 26 2011

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, applying California law, has held that, where all of an underlying claimant’s claims against the insured related to the sale of derivatives, a professional liability policy exclusion for losses pertaining to derivative sales barred coverage

Ninth Circuit: professional liability policy excludes coverage for loss attributable to investments in derivatives

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 25 2011

The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a 2009 order granting summary judgment in favor of Illinois Union Insurance Co., ruling that the insurer owed no coverage on claims by allegedly defrauded clients of the now defunct Brookstreet Securities Corp

Sanctions update

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Iran, Libya, Syria, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • May 13 2011

This is a two part sanctions update

Lawsuit challenges termination of insured credit default swaps

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2008

In a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on March 19, 2008, Merrill Lynch International (“MLI”), an affiliate of the investment banking firm Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., alleges that bond insurer XL Capital Assurance Inc. wrongfully terminated a series of insured credit default swap agreements based on XL’s claim that MLI repudiated the agreements by assigning voting rights with respect to the insured reference securities to a third party