The Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) recently released its Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the Agenda). While the Agenda appears undersized at 23 items compared to the 30 items that populated former Chairman Gary Gensler’s Fall 2024 list, it nonetheless signals several potentially consequential rulemakings — and an equally important shift in regulatory philosophy — under newly installed Chairman Paul S. Atkins. However, it is also important to recognize that because of time lags in the development and publication of the Agenda, shifts in policy may overtake items listed. In addition, the Agenda may not include other regulatory priorities actively pursued by Commission staff, but that were not ready for publication when the

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