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Partner Christian Brockman is attending.
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Chapman is proud to sponsor the Women in Public Finance (WPF) Annual Conference, where partner Katherine Gale, a WPF Chicago Chapter Board member, is attending.
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May 6-8, 2026
Chapman is a proud sponsor of the AGLF Annual Conference 2026, where partner Juliet Huang, AGLF Chair of the Board of Directors, will be attending along with partner Chris Preston and senior counsel Brendan Radke.
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May 4-7, 2026
Chapman's Tobias Moon is speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association's Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference.
April 29-May 1, 2026Chapman is exhibiting and several attorneys will be attending the 2026 Illinois ASBO Annual Conference.
April 27-30, 2026Chapman is a proud sponsor of the 2026 Israel Tech Week, where Michael Friedman, Tobias Moon, and Asaf Reindel are attending.
April 23-24, 2026Partner Nicole Windsor is moderating the "Step Up to the Plate: Winning Strategies and Sports Financing" panel at the ACIC Spring Investment Forum. Partners Amanda Hoffman, Amy Olshansky, Ed Pelican, and Tony Yager, and associates Will Cope, Paul Schneider, and Emily Tlapek are also attending.
April 16-17, 2026Chapman is a proud sponsor of the US Private Credit Industry Conference on Direct Lending. Partners Aaron Efta, Michelle King Kesner, and Nathan Odem, along with associate Tom Markle, will be attending.
On April 13, 2026, the Staff of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets issued a statement (“Statement”) setting out its views on when a person that creates, offers, and/or operates certain user interfaces used to prepare transactions in crypto asset securities (a “Covered User Interface Provider”) may do so without registering as a broker-dealer under Section 15(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Statement is the latest in a series of federal regulatory developments aimed at reconciling crypto industry practices within the existing securities and derivatives regulatory framework, following the SEC and CFTC’s joint guidance on the status of certain crypto assets and the CFTC’s recent no-action relief for a crypto wallet technology vendor. Commissioner Hester M. Peirce issued a separate statement commending the Staff but calling for a more permanent approach.
Our March 31, 2026, Client Alert described the ERBA NPR and SA NPR issued by the federal banking agencies on March 19, 2026. In that Alert, we indicated we would issue a separate Client Alert describing in more detail how the Standardized Approach “risk weights” in Section 32 and “credit conversion factors” (CCFs) in Section 33 of the US Basel III rule would be amended by the proposals in the SA NPR and how those would differ from the risk weights and CCFs proposed in the ERBA NPR (which would be contained in proposed new Sections 111 and 112 of the US Basel III rule). This Alert provides that description and is intended to be read in conjunction with the earlier Client Alert, which provides the background, and defined terms, for this supplementary Client Alert.
- Topic: Digital Assets
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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.
Chapman partner Liz Boison will moderate a panel at the conference.
Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the Blockchain and digital assets industry.
Read the latest edition of On-Chain Spotlight for key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the Blockchain and digital assets industry.
- Practical Law
Chapman partners Juan Arciniegas, Curtis Doty, Peter Hong, and Morrison Warren co-authored an article published by Thomson Reuters / Practical Law, providing essential guidance on the rapidly evolving landscape of cryptocurrency. As digital assets continue their march into mainstream finance, a new generation of investment products is reshaping how institutions and individuals gain exposure. Navigating this space requires understanding critical distinctions that carry real consequences for performance, costs, and compliance.
Read our synopsis of key regulatory, market, and litigation developments shaping the blockchain and digital assets industry.
- Amid growing regulatory activity and accelerating industry adoption, Chapman hosted a cross‑industry panel exploring the growing role of tokenization in financial markets, examining how the technology is advancing, what risks and opportunities it presents, and what market participants should be preparing for next.
The Digital Chamber released a new report: "Beyond Merit: How the SEC's Division of Investment Management Blocked Permissible Investments in Digital Assets." The report seeks to provide a workable framework to turn historical Division of Investment Management actions regarding digital assets into a path forward for the increased availability of digital assets in investment company products. Chapman's Rick Coyle and Morrison Warren assisted in the preparation.
On February 15, 2023, by a vote of 4 to 1 with only Commissioner Peirce voting no, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to amend the content of Rule 206(4)-2 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”), known as the Custody Rule, and redesignate it as Rule 223-1 under the Advisers Act, now known as the Safeguarding Rule. If adopted, the proposal would, among other things, expand the coverage of the Advisers Act’s custody provisions beyond “client funds and securities” to include any client assets of which an adviser has custody, a change that would bring within the rule’s coverage all digital assets, including non-securities such as commodities. Such a change would impose a requirement on many investment advisers that hold client assets to place those assets with a “qualified custodian,” despite a current lack of widespread availability of such service providers for many digital assets.
At a time when the digital asset market is badly in need of good news, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has delivered the long-awaited ISDA Digital Asset Derivatives Definitions (the “Definitions”).
Chapman represented the Chamber of Digital Commerce in connection with its “Spot Bitcoin ETF Initiative” which set out to gain a deep understanding of the industry’s experience in pursuit of a registered Spot Bitcoin ETF and provide insight into the most realistic avenues for ultimately getting the SEC to approve this widely anticipated investment product.
