The 2012 HBLR Symposium, Complexity and Change in Financial Regulation, will be held on March 23–24. Visit our symposium page for more information and to register.
The Private Role in Public Fracturing Disclosure and Regulation
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Hannah J. Wiseman: Public concerns have often focused on the chemicals used in the fracturing process, yet federal regulations requiring disclosure of chemicals are weak. Industry—along with state regulators—developed a website that enabled chemical disclosure...
America’s Natural Gas: From Shale Gas to LNG Exports
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Susan Sakmar: According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2012, U.S. natural gas production is expected to increase almost twenty-nine percent...
SPACs and the JOBS Act
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Usha Rodrigues: The JOBS Act’s IPO on-ramp was intended to ease regular companies’ path to going public; instead, it has inadvertently made it easier for the average investor to get a taste of private equity...
Restructuring Sovereign Debt Under Local Law: Are Retrofit Collective Action Clauses Expropriatory?
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Melissa A. Boudreau: The European sovereign debt crisis has generated a number of controversial restructuring proposals that would have seemed appropriate only for emerging markets just a few years ago...
