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75th Anniversary of the Securities Act of 1933

May 27th marked the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the Securities Act of 1933. Click here to learn more about how Felix Frankfurter and James Landis Landis (photo on right), along with Benjamin Cohen, Thomas "Tommy" Corcoran, Ferdinand Pecora, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt all made the passage of the Act possible. As Cohen wrote to Landis, "Rayburn remarked he did not know whether the bill passed so readily because it was damned good or so damn incomprehensible."

        

2008 Annual Meeting – Exemptive Authority: The Mandate of the Division of Investment Management

Originally Broadcast June 5, 2008

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Listen to the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society Ninth Annual Meeting – "Exemptive Authority: The Mandate of the Division of Investment Management" – presented at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s auditorium in Washington, D.C.

"Exemptive Authority" was moderated by Martin E. Lybecker, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; with panelists Kenneth J. Berman, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Kathleen H. Moriarty, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP; and Robert E. Plaze, SEC Division of Investment Management.

The 2008 Annual Meeting was part of the SEC Historical Society’s events commemorating the upcoming 75th anniversary of the SEC in 2009. At the conclusion of the program, the Society hosted an Ice Cream Social for SEC staff and guests to celebrate the 74th birthday of the SEC.

  

David B.H. Martin,

David B.H. Martin

2008-09 SEC Historical Society Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors

David B.H. Martin, a partner with Covington & Burling LLP, has been elected 2008-09 President of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. Martin is a former Director of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance and a former special counsel to the SEC Chairman. He is a graduate of Yale University and University of Virginia School of Law.

The SEC Historical Society elected the following officers for 2008-09:

  • Herbert F. Janick III, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Chairman
  • James W. Barratt, Alvarez and Marsal, President-Elect
  • Stacy P. Chittick, FINRA, Vice President for Development
  • Donna M. Nagy, Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington, Vice President for Museum
  • W. Scott Bayless, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Treasurer
  • Richard B. Nesson, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, Secretary

The Society elected the following persons to serve on the Board of Trustees: David DeMuro, Lehman Brothers; Carrie Dwyer, Charles Schwab & Co.; Anne Flannery, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP; Teresa Iannaconi, KPMG LLP; Matthew Mallow, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP; Professor Nagy; Mark Radke, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; and Harry Weiss, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. For a complete list of the members of the 2008-09 Board of Trustees, click here.

The SEC Historical Society also appointed the members of the Class of 2011 of the Board of Advisors. The Board of Advisors is a group of volunteer leaders who, while not having the governance or fiduciary authority of the Board of Trustees, help guide the work of the SEC Historical Society. For a complete list of the members of the 2008-09 Board of Advisors, click here.

  

2007 Annual Report

Read the 2007 Annual Report of the SEC Historical Society, including the audited financial statements and the list of donors to the Society in 2007. Highlights of 2007 provides narrative on the Society’s activities during 2007.