Author Archives: Ken Schwartz
Opinion and Injunction Barring Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act (Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., Dec. 3, 2024, E. Dist. Texas)
Read Judge Mazzant’s opinion and injunction here: Opinion and Order (Injunction) in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., Dec. 3, 2024, E. Dist. Texas, Sherman Div. No. 4:24-cv-00478
SEC Division of Examinations Publishes ESG Investing Risk Alert
The SEC’s Division of Examinations issued a Risk Alert on April 9, 2021 highlighting observations from its recent exams of investment advisers, registered investment companies, and private funds offering environmental, social, and governance (ESG) products and services. The risk alert is available at: https://www.sec.gov/files/esg-risk-alert.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery. esg-risk-alert.pdf (sec.gov)
Fund Disclosures Addressing COVID-19 Risks
We have now been in the throes of the COVID-19 global pandemic for several months. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic.[1] What was only months ago a distant (and possibly deliberately concealed) abstraction is now a semi-permanent and world-altering reality. Depending upon the target investors of a private… Read More »