Anna T. Pinedo

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Anna Pinedo is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Corporate & Securities practice. She concentrates her practice on securities and derivatives. Anna represents issuers, investment banks/financial intermediaries and investors in financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, as well as structured notes and other hybrid and structured products.

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One of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s priorities under Chair Clayton’s leadership has been protection of retail investors, including through rigorous enforcement of microcap fraud.  Consistent with that focus, yesterday, the Commission released proposed amendments to Securities Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11.  This rule requires that certain issuer information be made available to and be reviewed…

On September 17, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules to update the statistical disclosures that bank and savings and loan registrants provide to investors. The proposed rules would rescind Industry Guide 3, Statistical Disclosure by Bank Holding Companies (Guide 3), codify certain Guide 3 disclosures into a new Subpart 1400 of Regulation…

On September 25, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission will hold an open meeting to consider a number of topics.  The first item on the meeting agenda relates to consideration of whether to propose amendments to Rule 15c2-11 of the Securities Exchange Act relating to the publication of quotes for securities in a medium other…

This past week, the House Financial Services Committee considered and passed a few bills that would, if passed by the House, result in changes to the securities laws. These include:

The Investor Protection and Capital Markets Fairness Act (H.R.4344), a bill by Representative Ben McAdams (D-UT), would substantially strengthen the authority of the Securities and…

In this Lexis Practice Advisor® Practice Note, we discuss the amendments proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 3, 2019 in connection with financial statement disclosures on business acquisitions and dispositions as required by Regulation S-X’s (17 C.F.R. §§ 210.1-01 – 12-29) Rule 3-05 (Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired or…

At the Economic Club of New York, in keynote remarks, Chair Clayton reviewed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent initiatives.  He highlighted the Commission’s adoption of Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI).  Repeating a common theme, Chair Clayton discussed concerns relating to increased reliance on the private capital markets.  Clayton noted that, while twenty-five years ago,…

In this Lexis Practice Advisor® Practice Note, we provide answers to questions frequently asked by securities lawyers and their clients regarding the federal securities laws applicable to Business Development Companies (BDC’s). Specifically, this practice note includes questions related to:

  • Securities offering process;
  • Disclosure and corporate governance obligations;
  • Stock exchange requirements;
  • Commercial and regulatory

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The US federal banking and functional regulators (“Agencies”) have finalized revisions to the proprietary trading and compliance program provisions of the Volcker Rule, which implement some, though not all, of the changes that had been proposed by the Agencies in a May 2018 notice of proposed rulemaking. This Legal Update discusses the revisions.

On September 5, 2019, the Investor Advisory Committee will hold an open meeting (telephonic) in order to consider and address recommendations regarding the proxy process.  On September 19, the Committee will hold an in-person open meeting.  The agenda for this meeting includes a discussion relating to developing better disclosures for investors and a discussion on…

In this Lexis Practice Advisor® Practice Note, we discuss the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rule that would expand the permitted use of “testing-the-waters” communications from emerging growth companies (EGCs) only to all issuers, regardless of size or reporting status. Proposed by the SEC on February 19, 2019, Rule 163B under the Securities…