Client Alerts & Publications

This Client Alert covers the new rules that apply to beneficiary representation. It is the fourth installment in a six-part series on the new Illinois Trust Code.

On November 22, in a fact-specific ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that two separate, but related Sun Capital Partners Inc. private equity investment funds were not liable for the multiemployer plan withdrawal liability of a bankrupt portfolio company that the two funds co-owned.

On November 25, the SEC re-proposed Rule 18f-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as amended. Rule 18f-4 is intended to be a new exemptive rule that is designed to enhance the regulation of the use of derivatives by registered investment companies, including mutual funds, ETFs, closed-end funds, and BDCs notwithstanding the restrictions under the 1940 Act.

This article in Business Credit magazine discusses best practices that unsecured creditors consider in determining early-on whether or not a customer is in financial distress, assessing the circumstances, and taking appropriate action. 

On November 4, the SEC announced proposed amendments to Rules 206(4)-1 and 206(4)-3 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to address investment adviser advertisements and payments to solicitors, respectively. 

On September 26, the SEC adopted final Rule 6c-11 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and certain form amendments that standardize the regulatory regime governing exchange-traded funds.

Fund sponsors are increasingly considering two similar types of registered closed-end investment companies known as “interval funds” and “tender offer funds” as an attractive alternative to open-end mutual funds, ETFs and traditional closed-end funds.

On September 17, the SEC announced proposed rules to update the statistical disclosures that bank and savings and loan registrants provide to investors and eliminate disclosures that overlap with other SEC rules, U.S. GAAP or IFRS.

This Alert covers the new rules that apply to the modification or termination of irrevocable trusts. It is the third installment in a six-part series on the new Illinois Trust Code.

On September 26, the SEC adopted Rule 6c-11 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and amendments to Form N-1A and Form N-8B-2 that overhaul the patchwork regulatory framework that currently governs the $3.32 trillion ETF industry. The adopted rule and form amendments are largely similar, but not identical, to the versions that were proposed in June 2018.

In a case of first impression, the Seventh Circuit recently held that a UCC financing statement that incorporates a description of collateral by reference to an unattached security agreement sufficiently “indicates” the collateral, such that a separate and additional description of the collateral is not required to properly perfect a lender’s security interest.