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Contract Claims 101: Financial Fundamentals, Part 3
We’re back for the third installment of PilieroMazza’s REAs, Claims, and Appeals Group’s “Contract Claims 101” series, introducing federal contractors to the basics of requests for equitable adjustment (REAs), claims, and appeals. This month, we’re defining the key terms underpinning the basic financial framework of government contract disputes. Financial rules can make or break a contractor’s recovery: Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) dictate how costs must be built, Contract Disputes Act (CDA)...By: PilieroMazza PLLC
Federal Housing Initiatives Signal Potential Shifts in Development, Lending, and Affordability
On Friday, President Trump issued a pair of Executive Orders focused on increasing affordability and access to the housing market. Combined with ongoing negotiations in Congress on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, they reflect a bipartisan focus in Washington on expanding housing construction and affordability in 2026....By: Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP
Virginia Court of Appeals Finds ‘Knowledge’ to Mean ‘Constructive Knowledge’ Under the Virginia Limited Liability Act
On January 20, the Virginia Court of Appeals issued an opinion interpreting the meaning of the term “knowledge” within Virginia Code § 13.1-1021.1(C), a provision of the Virginia Limited Liability Company Act (LLC Act) governing real property transfers by limited liability company (LLC) managers...By: ArentFox Schiff
Shakespeare Was Right About the Lawyers
It’s our fault. Well, if not entirely our fault, we certainly enabled it (you business types let this happen with nary a peep of protest). What am I banging on about? Legal documents. The legal documents we use in mortgage finance and securitization are the most turgidly unreadable, repetitious, corpulent, elephantine abuses of the English language of which I am aware (except perhaps instruction manuals from my grandkids’ toys that were written by a German and translated into English by a...By: Crunched Credit
CFTC Issues Staff Advisory and Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Prediction Markets
The proliferation of prediction markets has grown dramatically in the past year as the CFTC began regularly approving these entities as registered designated contract markets (DCMs) and has grown to an over $13 billion industry covering a broad range of topics from sports, politics, culture, and economic indicators. While litigation over sports-related event contracts with state regulators wages on, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) issued...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
One Big Beautiful Bill (“OB3”) and FEOC: Current Considerations for Debt Financings
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), passed in July 2024, and related recent additional guidance, has created ripple effects through the renewable energy financing market. The Act not only changes how projects qualify for key tax credits, including the clean electricity investment tax credit under Section 48E of the Code and the clean electricity production tax credit under Section 45Y of the Code (including beginning of construction considerations), but also implements ways that projects...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
Puerto Rico Extends Act 60 Resident Investor Program to 2055 and Introduces New 4% Tax Regime for Future Applicants
High-net-worth investors, fund managers, and entrepreneurs considering relocation to Puerto Rico now face a narrowing window to secure the most favorable tax benefits under the island’s Resident Individual Investor program (formerly Act 22). New legislation extends the program through 2055 but introduces a 4% tax on certain investment income for applicants beginning January 1, 2027, marking the first meaningful change to the program’s historically tax-free treatment....By: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
Controlling for Risk: Identification, Investigation, and Remediation of Compliance Issues
How Strong Compliance Programs Identify, Investigate, and Remediate Issues Before They Escalate - Compliance issues rarely announce themselves in neat, predictable ways. They emerge through unexpected combinations of data, behavior, systems, and human judgment—often evolving non-linearly and under pressure. No two issues look exactly alike....By: Seward & Kissel LLP
[Audio] Auto Finance Year in Review, Part 1: From FTC CARS Rule Collapse to a State-Led Patchwork — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
In this episode of Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast, hosts Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso kick off a two-part Auto Finance Year in Review by unpacking the Fifth Circuit’s vacatur of the FTC CARS Rule, the decision by the Trump 2.0 administration not to appeal, and how states — led by California’s CARS Act and Oregon’s new auto finance law — are quickly filling the gap with their own disclosure, add-on, cancellation, and recordkeeping requirements, creating a growing state-by-state...By: Troutman Pepper Locke
Contract Language and Disclosures Reign Supreme in Minnesota Federal Court Ruling Regarding Cash Sweep Program
There has been a recent surge of lawsuits and regulatory actions against major banks and brokerages alleging that cash sweep programs pay unreasonably low rates while the banks/brokerages generate significant revenue. As is the typical trend, the largest banks and financial institutions have been targeted first—for example, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Ameriprise—but opportunistic lawsuits against mid-size banks and brokerages will surely follow....By: Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.
How Experts Are Navigating AI, Market Volatility, and Increasing Regulatory Scrutiny
Navigating innovation, scrutiny, and uncertainty in a rapidly evolving financial landscape. Business valuation has never been static. It evolves alongside markets, regulation, technology, and the broader economic landscape. In 2026, that evolution is accelerating......By: IR Global
[Video] Innovation in Compliance: Venezuela’s Energy Reopening with Loren Steffy
Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits with energy journalist/publisher Loren Steffy to discuss whether a Trump administration announcement regarding Venezuela is meaningful for oil markets, concluding that it mainly increases...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
[Video] Daily Compliance News: March 17, 2026, Is the DOJ Corrupt? Edition
Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional. Top stories include: • Cyber hacks and Iran. (WSJ):...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
Preferred Equity: Comparing Alternatives and Managing Legal Risks
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Preferred equity occupies a unique position in the capital structure, sitting above common equity but below all debt....By: Mayer Brown
New Fourth Circuit Decision Addresses Mandatory (No Opt-Out) Classes and Commonality
While the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s recent class action decision in Trauernicht v. Genworth Financial Inc., No. 24-1880, – F.4th –, 2026 WL 667917 (4th Cir. Mar. 10, 2026), involves an ERISA retirement plan, the decision is useful well beyond that context....By: Robinson+Cole Class Actions Insider
CFTC Issues Request for Comment and Staff Advisory on Prediction Markets
On March 12, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) released two documents regarding “event contract” derivatives traded on prediction markets. The CFTC issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPRM”) requesting public comment on the regulation of prediction markets. The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight (“DMO”) issued a staff advisory providing guidance to designated contract markets (“DCMs”) on the listing and trading of event contracts (the “Staff Advisory”)....By: Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives
California's Fair Investment Practices by Venture Capital Companies Law Imposes New Registration and Reporting Obligations
Key Takeaways - New law effective March 1, 2026. California's Fair Investment Practices by Venture Capital Companies Law (FIPVCC), enacted through SB 54 (2023) and amended by SB 164 (2024), establishes a registration and reporting regime for venture capital companies with a California nexus. The law requires covered entities to gather and report data about founder diversity in venture-backed companies....By: Baker Donelson
SEC Provides Certain Relief from Section 16(a) Reporting Obligations
This alert highlights recent relief measures available to certain directors and officers of foreign private issuers (FPIs) subject to Section 16(a) reporting obligations under the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act (HFIA Act), which takes effect March 18, 2026....By: Haynes Boone
SEC Staff Grants Geographically-Based Section 16(a) Reporting No-Action Relief
On March 13, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) stated in a no-action letter to an Israeli company that it would not recommend enforcement action to the SEC if the directors and officers of the company requesting relief do not file the beneficial ownership reports required by Exchange Act Section 16(a) until April 20, 2026....By: Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives
Two More FAQs on the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act
On March 12, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) published two new FAQs on the application of the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act to officers and directors of certain foreign private issuers (“FPIs”). As we have previously discussed, pursuant to the Act, these individuals are required to report their beneficial ownership in the FPI’s securities under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act, beginning no later than March 18,...By: Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives
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