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Click here to find out moreChanges in the regulatory approach to the short selling of listed securities have recently been announced in both the United States ("U.S.") and the European Union ("EU"). In the U.S., rule amendments were recently adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission that generally restrict market participants' ability to sell short listed securities whose price has dropped by at least 10% in a single day. In the EU, a new regulatory proposal would (to the extent adopted by the EU member states) require private disclosure of net short positions above a 0.2% threshold to the applicable regulator, and public disclosure to the market of such positions above a 0.5% threshold. Join Kay Gordon and Philip Morgan of K&L Gates LLP, who provide brief histories of regulatory developments in the area of short selling under both the EU and the U.S. regimes and summarize what the changes entail and what each will mean for market participants.
