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Louis Rambo is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets Group. He focuses his practice on counseling public companies and their boards of directors on corporate governance, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, disclosure and shareholder activism. Drawing on his previous tenure with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance, Louis partners with clients on capital raising, including underwritten equity transactions, at-the-market offerings and high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, as well as on structuring M&A transactions, spin-offs, tender offers and going private transactions. He advises public companies on developing governance and disclosure matters, including director independence, compensation, insider trading issues, shareholder proposals and stockholder meetings, and advises on shareholder activism and takeover defense.

Louis also regularly advises hedge funds, private equity funds, family offices, private companies and other financial institutions on a wide range of transactional and securities regulatory compliance matters, including capital raising, PIPEs and secondary transactions, novel and complex beneficial ownership issues arising under the federal securities laws, derivative transactions, insider trading issues and policies and compliance programs.

Louis previously served as an attorney with the SEC in the Division of Corporation Finance. While at the SEC, Louis worked on a number of transactional and securities compliance matters.

On February 7, 2018, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) issued guidance for all virtual currency entities licensed by New York State regarding the prevention of market manipulation, fraud, and other wrongdoing. According to DFS, New York has granted four licenses and two charters to virtual

The SEC took two additional steps today in its regulation and oversight of the initial coin offering (“ICO”) and cryptocurrency markets.

In the SEC’s latest action targeting an ICO, the SEC Enforcement Division’s new Cyber Unit intervened in an attempted ICO by Munchee, Inc., an online food review service

In his remarks at a recent Practicing Law Institute program on securities regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton once again addressed Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs.  Mr. Clayton highlighted several issues in particular, including that in his view there is a lack of information about many online platforms that list and trade virtual coins or tokens offered and sold in ICOs, and that trading of tokens on these platforms is susceptible to price manipulation and other fraudulent trading practices.