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Category: Rules & Regs

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Courts, SEC Offer Guidance on Subject of Materiality

Shadowy hands grasping materiality

The concept of materiality in securities law has always been intentionally vague. Information that some nebulous “reasonable investor” would consider important leaves ample room for interpretation. Nevertheless, as the Securities and Exchan...

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SPACs’ Woes Mount

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Furbys. The Spice Girls. Flash mobs. You could argue that special purpose acquisition companies – more commonly referred to as SPACs – have enjoyed a longer shelf life than most notable fads. Nevertheless, signs point to SPACs going the way...

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Can the Courts End Crypto’s Existential Crisis?

Puppies Tugging on Coinbase

Could we be nearing an answer to the question of whether digital tokens are securities or commodities? At Intelligize, we certainly hope so. We’ve written in the past about how tiresome this existential debate has become. It appears the leg...

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Twitter Presents Musk with Poison Pill

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Following Elon Musk is exhausting. Absolutely exhausting. Driven by an apparently insatiable need for public attention, the latest in an interminable series of headline-grabbing stunts from the CEO (sorry, “Technoking”) of Tesla involves a...

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Auditing Showdown with China Nearing a Conclusion?

The Great Wall of China

Remember the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act? Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler warned the world last year that the law, which took effect at the end of 2020, could start causing problems in the United States f...

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