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Litigation funding arrangement not an abuse of process

In Day v The Official Assignee as Liquidator of GN Networks Ltd (in Liq) [2016] NZHC 2400, the High Court rejected a claim that the funding arrangement at issue constituted maintenance or champerty.

New Zealand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay
US FDIC and SEC Propose Rules to Govern the Orderly Liquidation of Covered Broker-Dealers under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act

On February 17, 2016, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) (collectively, the “agencies”) jointly proposed a rule to supplement the statutory provisions of Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act (the “Orderly Liquidation Authority” or “OLA”) that govern the orderly liquidation of a “covered broker or dealer”—i.e., an SEC-registered broker or dealer that is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) and for which a systemic risk determination to trigger the application of the OLA has been made.

USA, Banking, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Mayer Brown, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (USA), Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 (USA)