June 2020 – Terry Brennan Law

Regulatory Analysis: FINRA Rule 3270 – Disclosure of Outside Business Activity (Part II)

This article is part of an occasional series on specific rules and regulations governing financial professions. It is also the second in a multi-part analysis of FINRA Rule 3270. Part II will analyze portions of the rule’s text that were not discussed in Part I, examine the content required for a notice under 3270 and …

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Regulatory Analysis: FINRA Rule 3270 – Disclosure of Outside Business (Part I)

This article is part of an occasional series on specific rules and regulations governing financial professions. It is also the first in a multi-part analysis of FINRA Rule 3270. Part II is available here. THE RULE FINRA Rule 3270 – Outside Business Activity of Registered Persons No registered person may be an employee, independent contractor, …

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The Wrong Kind of Exceptional: Oscar Bobb’s Uselessly Close Article 19 Case

Article 19 of FIFA’s Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players remains a tough wall to clear. Generally, the rule bars clubs from signing foreign players under age 18, except in three limited circumstances.[1] The most controversial of these is exception (a), which allows the transfer if the player’s parent moved to the new …

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