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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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New Topics and Content Highlight FINRA’s Increased Focus on Cybersecurity, Crypto Assets, Artificial Intelligence, Market Integrity, Off-Channel Communications and Other Key Risk Areas

On January 9, 2024, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) published the 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the “Report”), which builds on the structure and content of FINRA’s prior reports

The Financial Stability Oversight Council recently released its annual report.  Not surprisingly, this year’s report reviewed the banking failures in the early part of the year.  In discussing the “vulnerabilities in the banking sector” that resulted in the bank failures, the Report cited poor risk management practices and heavy reliance on uninsured deposits as

This practice note discusses the rules and exemptions for reselling securities that are acquired in Rule 144A or Regulation S transactions. Rule 144A securities are restricted securities that can only be sold to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) or under certain conditions, such as after a holding period or in compliance with Rule 144. Regulation S

Recently, the SEC’s Office of the Investor Advocate released its Report on Activities for Fiscal Year 2023, which is required to be delivered to Congress. The Report highlights the work of the Office on investor protection issues. The Report discusses the Office’s work relating to its policy-oriented stakeholder and investor testing for innovative and effective

Recently, in advance of the effective date (December 18, 2023), the Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance provided additional guidance regarding the final rules relating to cybersecurity incident disclosure and cybersecurity risk management, strategy and governance.  The Director noted his remarks were intended to “clear up potential misconceptions.”  The comments reiterate the observations

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a staff report on the accredited investor definition. The Dodd-Frank Act directed the SEC to review the accredited investor definition every four years to determine whether the definition should be modified or adjusted. The definition was previously reviewed in 2015 and 2019. This report is the third such review.

This practice note discusses the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the HFCAA), which affects the securities of certain foreign companies listed on U.S. markets and requires them to submit documentation and disclosures to the SEC and the PCAOB. The HFCAA aims to address the regulatory challenge posed by Chinese law that prevents the PCAOB from

This practice note discusses market trends on how public companies disclose their political contributions, or “political spending,” as part of their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. The note provides sample disclosures from recent periodic reports and analyzes the potential benefits and risks of political spending for public companies. The note also examines the increasing

We just published a new edition of Corporate Finance and the Securities Laws. This is the seventh edition.  A new edition provides an opportunity to go through the whole book and evaluate the organization of it, whether there is material that is outdated and needs refreshing (beyond that undertaken in connection with regular annual updates)