securities law
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- noun
- /sɪˈkjʊərɪtiz lɔ/
- Specialized
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- While rewards-based crowdfunding has, and may continue to operate without any interference from federal securities law, it is these rules that have stood as the major impediment.
- Corporate securities law
- federal securities law
Often these traders have a background in M&A; or in securities law.
- Often these traders have a background in M&A; or in securities law.
Examples
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Historically, the regulation of business has been split between corporate law and securities law.
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Corporate and securities law is, at its core, about valuation.
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No, it's probably a securities law violation, but we'll deal with that later.
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I suppose I technically learned a lot of securities law in law school.
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Now, securities law says that you can never function as both a broker and a dealer in the same transaction.
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When Congress initially adopted the federal securities laws, it considered bringing the auditing process explicitly into the public sector.
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Both corporate law and securities law, in turn, depend on the relationship between market prices and value in formulating causes of action.
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Financial economics has become ever more integrated into corporate and securities law, a trend that started decades prior to the financial crisis of 2008 to 2009.
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Information—its value and its disclosure—is at the center of much of corporate and securities law.
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The federal government regulates various aspects of securities law to ensure investor protection.
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'area of law regulating securities' is directly and compositionally derived from 'securities' (tradable assets like stocks or bonds) + 'law' (statute/regulation). This straightforward noun-noun compound follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent senses will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Securities law comes from the older idea of securities as official papers or a 'promise' that shows who owns money or will be paid, and law means the rules about them. So securities law is the set of rules about those papers, and today it means the laws that control the issuing, selling, and trading of stocks and bonds to protect investors.