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Asset Management Law360 provides breaking legal news and analysis on the asset management industry. Coverage includes litigation, policy developments, and corporate deals involving investment firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, bond funds, pension funds, and real estate investment trusts.
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Latest News in Asset Management
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March 25, 2026
UBS Must Face Class Action Over Low-Yield Sweep Accounts
A New York federal judge on Wednesday trimmed a proposed class action alleging USB Financial Services Inc. put customers' money in low-yielding "cash sweep" accounts in breach of their contract, tossing a single duplicative unjust enrichment claim but allowing the contract claims to proceed.
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March 25, 2026
Tax-Credit Cliff Sparks M&A Rush For Clean Energy
The looming July cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity investment and production tax credits is sparking a dealmaking spree as smaller developers who are unable to meet the deadline begin looking to sell projects to deeper-pocketed players who can.
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March 25, 2026
S. Korea, Elliott Dispute Over Samsung Merger Set To Restart
South Korea's Ministry of Justice said Wednesday it is preparing for U.S. hedge fund Elliott Associates to resubmit its claim accusing the government of interfering in an $8 billion merger between two Samsung affiliates in 2015, weeks after a London court set aside a previous award in the dispute.
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March 25, 2026
FINRA Constitutionality Case Belongs In 4th Circ., Judge Says
A North Carolina federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's in-house disciplinary process, saying the case belongs before the Fourth Circuit.
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March 25, 2026
Ex-Partner Seeks 2,000 Client Notices In NC Estate Firm Fight
After nearly two hours of argument in which counsel for the founding partner of a trusts and estates law firm argued that the firm should have to notice his departure to thousands of clients, a North Carolina Business Court judge seemed a bit perplexed Wednesday as to why the parties didn't resolve the client list spat with a North Carolina State Bar ethics opinion.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Initial public offerings
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Spinoffs
- Franchise and management agreements
- Real estate deals
- Shareholder activism involving hedge funds and hedge fund managers
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Internal Revenue Service
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Financial company lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Bankruptcies involving assets managed by hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, or other investment managers
- Restructuring and distressed debt issues
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of asset management practices
Readership
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the asset management industry
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals