Cross-border estate planning gets complicated fast when a client owns assets in the United States, and the culprit is often hiding in plain sight: how title is held and which state’s law applies. Chapman partner and Trusts and Estates Department leader Rebecca Wallenfelsz and associate Mackenzie Collins break down the details in this chapter from the third edition of A Guide to International Estate Planning: Design, Administration, and Compliance.
Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
On July 15, 2026, the CFTC amended its margin rules for uncleared swaps applicable to swap dealers and major swap participants not subject to the margin rules of a prudential regulator. The amendment, which has particular significance for sponsors, asset managers, and seeded funds, takes effect August 17, 2026, and makes three principal changes.
On July 27, 2026, the staff of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a no-action letter to the Investment Company Institute regarding the treatment of an exchange-traded fund’s creation basket when the ETF passively exceeds its industry concentration limit.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
On July 16, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Regulation E‑Delivery a sweeping new rule that would allow issuers, broker‑dealers, investment advisers, transfer agents, and other market participants to deliver required disclosures and reports electronically as the default method without first obtaining investors' affirmative consent.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
Client Alerts & Publications
- Chapman Insights
Cross-border estate planning gets complicated fast when a client owns assets in the United States, and the culprit is often hiding in plain sight: how title is held and which state’s law applies. Chapman partner and Trusts and Estates Department leader Rebecca Wallenfelsz and associate Mackenzie Collins break down the details in this chapter from the third edition of A Guide to International Estate Planning: Design, Administration, and Compliance.
- Chapman Insights
Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
- Chapman Insights
Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
Events
- ConferenceSeptember 15-16, 2026
Chapman is sponsoring the 2026 Private Placements Industry Forum (PPIF) Europe Conference. Partner and Practice Group Leader of Chapman's Corporate Finance Department Vince Pelleriti will chair the conference and partner Nicole Windsor will moderate the “The Agents' Perspective: Distribution and Market Dynamics” panel. Partners Michael Harrison and Amy Olshansky will also be attending.
- Conference
Partner Peter Morreale will be attending SFA RMBS Symposium 2026.
- ConferenceSept. 16-18, 2026
Chapman is sponsoring the Women in Public Finance (WPF) 30th Annual Conference. Partner Katherine Gale, a WPF Chicago Chapter Board member (and immediate past Board President), and partners Latrice Baptiste, Nancy Burke, Jacquelyn Cerasuolo, Mary Kimura, Nora O’Brien, and associate Ronni Martin will be attending.
Chapman in the News
- News
Chapman welcomes partner Gary Brooks to our Investment Management Group. Gary focuses his practice on the investment management industry, primarily working with registered investment companies (including open-end and closed-end funds) and business development companies, and their investment advisers and boards on a wide range of transactional, regulatory, compliance, and securities law matters.
- Recognition
Chapman was honored with PACENation’s PACESetter Award for Partner of the Year, recognizing the firm’s leadership and sustained contributions to the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) market.
- News
Chapman welcomes partner Cris Cicala to our Asset Securitization and Structured Finance Group; Cryptocurrency, Digital Assets, and Blockchain Group; and Compliance, Regulatory and Payments Group. Cris has an extensive digital assets practice advising funds, financial institutions, fintech companies, and digital-native market participants in matters involving digital assets and blockchain. He also has particularly deep experience in representing Latin American and European financial institutions and their US branches in both US domestic and cross-border transactions.
Partner Christian Brockman is attending.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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Cross-border estate planning gets complicated fast when a client owns assets in the United States, and the culprit is often hiding in plain sight: how title is held and which state’s law applies. Chapman partner and Trusts and Estates Department leader Rebecca Wallenfelsz and associate Mackenzie Collins break down the details in this chapter from the third edition of A Guide to International Estate Planning: Design, Administration, and Compliance.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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On July 15, 2026, the CFTC amended its margin rules for uncleared swaps applicable to swap dealers and major swap participants not subject to the margin rules of a prudential regulator. The amendment, which has particular significance for sponsors, asset managers, and seeded funds, takes effect August 17, 2026, and makes three principal changes.
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On July 27, 2026, the staff of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a no-action letter to the Investment Company Institute regarding the treatment of an exchange-traded fund’s creation basket when the ETF passively exceeds its industry concentration limit.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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On July 16, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Regulation E‑Delivery a sweeping new rule that would allow issuers, broker‑dealers, investment advisers, transfer agents, and other market participants to deliver required disclosures and reports electronically as the default method without first obtaining investors' affirmative consent.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
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Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
