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McIntyre & Lemon submitted a comment letter on behalf of certain portfolio-management clients to address the SEC’s recently proposed dealer rules and the potential for them to capture portfolio-management firms. Click here to review the comment letter.

McIntyre & Lemon submitted a comment letter today to address the SEC’s recently proposed dealer rules. We submitted comments on behalf of a constituency of professional equity trading firms that could be affected by a proposed expansion of dealer registration and regulation to reach exempt securities traders. Click here to […]

INTRODUCTION Unregistered trading funds and discretionary asset managers have historically operated in the asset management sector and not as securities dealers subject to the comprehensive broker-dealer regulatory regime of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) and rules of self-regulatory organizations (“SROs”). The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or […]

DOWNLOAD PDF REGULATORY PROPOSAL Over the past decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and its staff have addressed cybersecurity threats and their escalating risk to commerce. Routinely cited as an examination priority, the SEC has now proposed standardized disclosure requirements of material cybersecurity events and cybersecurity protocols for public-reporting […]

DOWNLOAD PDF Rebating is where an insurer or insurance agent gives something of value as an inducement to purchase insurance that it not included in the policy itself, such as when a prospective insurance customer receives a refund of part of the commission from an insurance sale. State anti-rebating laws […]