[Upcoming Event] Financial Regulation in the Post-Reform Era: Putting Dodd-Frank in Context

By Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy | Posted on

The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy will be hosting a lunch presentation by Eugene Ludwig on Monday, February 24, 2014.  Registration is requested.

Eugene Ludwig, Promontory Financial Group
Monday, February 24, 2014 
Boalt Hall 100; 12:45 – 1:45 pm

From the Civil War to the savings & loan meltdown, U.S. financial regulation has been shaped by cycles  of crisis and reform. What do changes like the Dodd-Frank Act mean for the evolution of the American regulatory model, and for global priorities like financial inclusion and development?

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Halliburton: After Arguments

By Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati | Posted on

The blogosphere is abuzz over Halliburton. Will the Supreme Court overturn Basic
and abolish the fraud-on-the-market presumption? Will the decision end shareholder class actions as we have known them? Presumably, by the Fourth of July, we will know.

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Outsourcing by Financial Services Companies: Impact of the OCC and FRB Guidelines

By Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom LLP | Posted on

Outsourcing has become a critical component of financial institutions’ management of their business operations and control of their costs. In addition, institutions are outsourcing increasingly complex and sensitive banking and financial operations to third parties. In light of these developments, the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) recently issued guidance on how financial institutions should manage third-party risks.

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U.K. Government Moves Towards Ratification of 2001 Cape Town Convention for Airline Industry

By Dominic Pearson, LL.M. Candidate 2014 | Posted on

Following a public consultation during the latter half of 2010, on December 6, 2013 the U.K. Department for Business Innovation & Skills published its response to a call for evidence on the proposed ratification by the U.K. of the 2001 Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the associated Protocol on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (together, “the Convention”).

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Dodd-Frank Rules’ Impact on Seller Financing

By Manatt, Phelps and Phillips LLP | Posted on

In 2014, new rules implementing amendments to the Federal Truth in Lending Act became effective as a result of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”).

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Google Settles European Antitrust Probe

By Eli Ness, J.D. Candidate 2015 | Posted on

Google managed to avoid a $5 billion fine by making concessions in how it displays competitors’ links in European search results. Joaquín Almunia, Europe’s competition commissioner announced on February 5th that Google made sufficient concessions to settle a three-year antitrust probe against the company and avoid a fine.

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