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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news and Today, Bloomberg Law

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Speaker 1: host June Grasso discusses how the Securities and Exchange Commission

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Speaker 1: is being affected by the election of Donald Trump. She

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Speaker 1: speaks with Jim Cox, law professor at Duke University Law School.

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Speaker 1: Jim is Trump's election a game changer for the sec

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Speaker 1: He's promised to dismantle Dodd Frank. But beyond that, what

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Speaker 1: can we expect? Well, I think they could. They're going

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Speaker 1: to have their plate very full with an initiative that

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Speaker 1: Chairman White started than that is rethinking all the disclosure

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Speaker 1: guidelines that apply to proxy statements, public offerings of securities,

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Speaker 1: and annual reports and quarterly reports. That is ongoing. They're

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Speaker 1: getting lots and lots of feedback on the question of

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Speaker 1: is there too much disclosure? What kind of disclosure should

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Speaker 1: we And the important question is can we start scaling

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Speaker 1: disclosure so that smaller companies have lighter burdens than larger

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Speaker 1: companies and those can be justified. That is the process

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Speaker 1: that is going to consume a awful lot of activity.

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Speaker 1: The other area where I think that you're likely to

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Speaker 1: see pushback and changes will be going back and re

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Speaker 1: examining the various rules were put in for broker dealers.

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Speaker 1: That is, we have yet to see whether the SEC

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Speaker 1: will adopt the benefit of the investor standard that Department

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Speaker 1: Labor has developed as the fiduciary obligation that applies to

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Speaker 1: broker dealers. We do have the Labor rule that applies

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Speaker 1: with respective retirement funds. My guess is that there's will

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Speaker 1: be a total wholesale reexamination that rule, which has been

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Speaker 1: very much opposed by the brokerage industry, and so it's

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Speaker 1: going to be the result that that provision, which is

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Speaker 1: But my guess is at Republicans and Democrats have an

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Speaker 1: approach enforcement with a fair degree of equanimity, and mainly

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Speaker 1: because we find that it's not truly big big companies

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Speaker 1: frauductions totally avoided the very strong lobby into history of

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Speaker 1: to see much change there. So enforcement will be something

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Speaker 1: out there, but I think that benign neglect in some

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Speaker 1: areas and then um using the initiatives have started by

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Speaker 1: White to rethink and scale down substantially the disclosure burdens

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Speaker 1: and as Jim Cox, a law professor at Duke University

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Speaker 1: Law School, speaking with Bloomberg Lahouse stun Grasso, you can

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Speaker 1: top legal stories from Bloomberg Law, Microsoft has submitted concessions

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Speaker 1: to European Union ATTI Trust officials examining its takeover of LinkedIn,

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Speaker 1: a move that may allow the deal to win early

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