In the Press
November 5, 2024

SEC Rulemaking Radar: The View From Election Day (Law 360)

This article is part of a quarterly column that examines new rulemaking developments at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In this installment, we discuss the spring 2024 Regulatory Flexibility Agenda. The SEC seems poised to tackle many of the remaining spring 2024 Regulatory Flexibility Agenda items by early 2025, despite the presidential election and the potential for a new chair to be nominated soon. In July, the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs published the SEC's spring 2024 Reg Flex Agenda. Despite the SEC's already prolific rulemaking under Chair Gary Gensler, the agency still has a few dozen additional rulemaking initiatives in the queue. Gensler's sense of urgency must be high, which is only one of several reasons why the agency's rulemaking schedule recently returned after a significant lull the past several months. Written by Nicholas Losurdo, partner in the Financial Services practice, and Christopher Grobbel, counsel in Goodwin's Broker, Exchange, and Trading practice.