Congressional Activity

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he plans to nominate Sullivan & Cromwell partner Jay Clayton to chair the SEC.   The announcement states that ...

To provide immunity from suit for certain individuals who disclose potential examples of financial exploitation of senior citizens, and for other purposes.

This is a wide-ranging congressional bill that would amend financial services laws. This was proposed by Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) in 2016.

Private equity’s lobbying arm scored an important victory earlier this month when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Investment Advisers Modernization Act of 2016, ...

To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to amend its rules to modernize certain requirements relating to ...

To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to amend its rules to modernize certain requirements relating ...

Our budget is simply not proportionate to the responsibilities we face. The President’s budget request would change that. This budget will give us the resources ...

As the SEC’s Division of Investment Management prepares a recommendation for the Commission to formally revise two advisers act rules in response to the Fast ...

The FAST Act revised the venture capital fund adviser exemption by deeming SBICs to be venture capital funds for purposes of the exemption. Because an ...

It may be hard to fathom politicians becoming frustrated with political answers but such was the scene at the March 15th hearing on SEC commissioner ...