Purveyors of initial coin offerings (ICOs) received a strong lashing from the SEC yesterday in declaring that one particular ICO was a securities offering that should have been fully registered with the SEC or met with an exemption from registration. A very new and exploding...

Last week the SEC proudly announced the completion of its rulemaking obligations under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 and the mini-JOBS Act 2.0 tacked onto the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The last rules had to do with implementing the...