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The Activist Investing Annual Review 2015
Activist Insight
January 30, 2015
The Activist Investing Annual Review 2015, published by Activist Insight in association with SRZ, covers the major trends in shareholder activism in the past year and analyzes statistics on global activist campaigns.
SRZ partner Marc Weingarten and former SRZ attorney David E. Rosewater contributed expert analyses to the review, predicting a continued boom in the number of activism campaigns in the United States, along with a steadily increasing number in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. The review also includes interviews and insights from other key players in the activism market and features the annual “Activist Top Ten,” a list of activists ranked by the impact they made in the past year, using publicly available data and Activist Insight’s unique Follower Returns feature.
As counsel on many of the highest-profile activist matters in recent years, SRZ is the go-to firm for representing the interests of investors, shareholders and target companies alike. We advise activists and “occasional activists,” as well as companies, boards of directors and shareholders, on a wide variety of corporate governance and control issues and activist and defensive strategies, from behind-the-scenes long-term partnerships with management to proxy contests and consent solicitations.
To read The Activist Investing Annual Review 2015, produced by Activist Insight in association with SRZ, please click here.
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On June 28, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would amend existing anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (“AML/CFT”) program[1] regulations to require that financial institutions establish, implement and maintain effective, risk-based and reasonably designed AML/CFT programs with certain minimum components, including a mandatory risk assessment process (hereinafter, “Proposed Rule”).[2] For purposes of the Proposed Rule, “financial institutions” include: banks; broker dealers; mutual funds; futures commission merchants (“FCMs”) and introducing brokers in commodities (“IB-Cs”); insurance companies; money services businesses (“MSBs”); casinos and card clubs; dealers in precious metals, precious stones or jewels; operators of credit card systems; loan or finance companies; and housing government sponsored enterprises.[3] In addition to establishing minimum risk assessment requirements for these AML/CFT programs, the Proposed Rule would require that financial institutions document each component of their AML/CFT programs and make this documentation available to FinCEN or its designee, which can include the appropriate agency to which FinCEN has delegated examination authority,[4] or the appropriate SRO.[5] The Proposed Rule would also require that these AML/CFT programs be approved and overseen by the financial institution’s board of directors or, if the financial institution does not have a board of directors, an equivalent governing body.