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SPACs: The Next Generation

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Just when most of us had mentally filed SPACs alongside pandemic-era sourdough starters and Zoom happy hours, special purpose acquisition companies—the blank-check vehicles that once raised billions with celebrity endorsements and minimal o...

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SEC’s AI Stance Holds Steady Under New Leadership

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Despite headlines about President Trump rescinding the Biden administration’s executive order on artificial intelligence, the SEC’s stance on AI-related disclosures hasn’t shifted much. If anything, its focus has sharpened. The Biden-era Ex...

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By Extending Compliance Deadlines, is the SEC ‘Deregulating by Delay?’

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Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission delayed the compliance date for a handful of regulations. It’s happened often enough lately that it could appear to some that the agency is engaging in “deregulation by delay.” For example, t...

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Five Ways White-Collar Enforcement Is Changing

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Since the transition to a new presidential administration in January, policies on trade and immigration have dominated the news. The administration’s approach to white-collar law enforcement isn’t generating the same buzz, but tangible and...

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Trump’s Turnaround on Tariffs Heightens Uncertainty for Companies

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Sometimes events come along to remind companies and the people who invest in them that the assumptions underpinning their plans are tenuous. In his 2003 book “A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market,” Temple University professor John Allen P...

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