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Court rejects retroactivity of DoddFrank's whistleblower remedies

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2013

Since the 2010 enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a recurring question in judicial opinions interpreting the

Summary of selected sessions from “the SEC speaks in 2013”

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

The Practising Law Institute, in cooperation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, recently held the annual "SEC Speaks" conference

Supreme Court decides materiality need not be demonstrated for class certification

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 27 2013

This morning the United States Supreme Court affirmed class certification in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, a

Federal court finds that SEC attorneys’ interview notes and memories are not protected by the work product doctrine

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 7 2013

In a highly unusual decision that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says "ignores 65 years of precedent," a federal judge has held that

Camping on "the street": a first step in the reform of the taxation of financial instruments and products

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 29 2013

On January 24, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Camp (R-MI) released a discussion draft of proposals to reform the taxation of certain

FINRA reverses course and issues guidance changing its interpretation regarding the key issues of "potential investors" and non-security recommendations

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

FINRA’s new suitability requirement, Rule 2011, went into effect July 9, 2012. Because the rule was such a departure from prior standards, FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 12-25 (May 2012) to explain the rule and to clarify its implications

CFTC issues first set of mandatory clearing determinations and time-limited no-action relief

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2012

On November 28, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued final clearing determinations with respect to four classes of interest rate swaps and two classes of credit default swaps

Federal courts bars extraterritorial application of Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation provision to whistleblowers employed abroad

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 23 2012

In Asadi v. G.E. Energy (USA), LLC, a federal district court in Texas held that Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation protections for SEC whistleblowers do not apply to employees stationed abroad

Federal courts split on whether Dodd-Frank’s bar on arbitration of whistleblower retaliation claims under Sarbanes-Oxley is retroactive

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 9 2012

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has cast the enforceability of many employer arbitration agreements into doubt

SEC expands disclosure requirements for energy exploration companies (oil, gas and minerals)

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 30 2012

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted final rules requiring oil, gas and mineral exploration companies to make annual disclosures regarding certain payments made to the U.S. government and foreign governments