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March 19, 2025
Russian Gotbit Crypto Operator Gets Plea Deal, Forfeits $23M
A Russian national accused of manipulating crypto markets through a market-making service he founded called Gotbit has struck a plea deal with Massachusetts federal prosecutors in which he copped to charges of conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud and agreed to forfeit about $23 million in cryptocurrency.
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March 19, 2025
Bitnomial Drops SEC Challenge Amid Ripple Dismissal Buzz
Crypto futures and options platform Bitnomial on Wednesday dropped its suit alleging that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unfairly blocked it from listing futures contracts for Ripple Labs' XRP token after Ripple itself announced that the SEC is no longer pursuing securities claims against the token.
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March 19, 2025
Ex-U.S. Rep. Loses 2nd Circ. Appeal In Insider Trading Case
Former Indiana Rep. Stephen Buyer has failed to convince the Second Circuit to overturn his insider trading conviction or to grant him a new trial, with the appellate court ruling Wednesday to keep his 22-month sentence intact.
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March 19, 2025
AI Chatbot Co. LivePerson Beats Shareholder Suit For Good
A New York federal judge on Wednesday tossed for good a consolidated shareholder class action alleging that chatbot developer LivePerson Inc. misled investors about its post-COVID financial performance and the purported success of WildHealth, a health-focused company it acquired.
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March 19, 2025
Truth Social Investors Say Suit Doesn't Belong In Fla.
The former CEO of the special purpose acquisition company that took Donald Trump's Truth Social public told a Florida appeals court on Wednesday that the SPAC's lawsuit against him and his company should be filed in Delaware rather than Sarasota.
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March 19, 2025
Sotera Beats Shareholder Suit Over Sterigenics Emissions
Life sciences company Sotera Health has beaten a shareholder suit alleging it made a series of false and misleading statements about its environmental controls and liability exposure from numerous lawsuits against subsidiary Sterigenics, with the court ruling the plaintiffs have not shown the company intended to deceive the public.
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March 19, 2025
Judge Tosses Vroom Investors' IPO Suit Due To Vague Claims
A New York federal judge has tossed a stockholder class action against Vroom Inc. over issues with its $468 million initial public offering, finding that none of the more than 50 challenged statements in the complaint made about the online car retailer's customer service or business plan are actionable.
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March 19, 2025
NJ Firm Faces SEC Fraud Suit Over Investment Allocations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused a New Jersey investment advisory firm and its owner of defrauding investors by violating its limits on concentrating investments in a particular sector, an issue that previously got the firm in regulatory trouble.
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March 19, 2025
How Cleary, Simpson Thacher Went To The Mattresses With FTC
The Federal Trade Commission's attempt to block Tempur Sealy's $5 billion bid to acquire retailer Mattress Firm suffered a likely fatal blow when a Texas federal court refused to put the merger on hold.
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March 19, 2025
NC Captive Insurer's Owner Can't Shirk Self-Dealing Claims
North Carolina's business court has largely rejected a majority shareholder's efforts to curtail claims he seized control of a captive insurance company only to run it into the ground, finding the suit sufficiently ties him to unpaid premiums that dried up the insurer's sole source of revenue.
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March 19, 2025
AI Is Growing Focus For Corporate Boards, Proxy Proposals
Public companies and their investors increasingly set their sights on artificial intelligence last year, according to a report released Wednesday indicating the rapidly evolving technology was a major focus when it came to both board-level oversight and shareholder proxy proposals.
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March 19, 2025
Alston & Bird Securities Litigator Joins Katten In Calif.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP added a former Alston & Bird LLP securities litigation partner whom one firm leader has hoped to hire after a stint working together decades ago.
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March 19, 2025
Ex-Cognizant CLO Fires Paul Weiss After Trump Order
A former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing a bribery trial next month has fired Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP from his defense team following the Trump administration's revocation of the firm's security clearances, according to a withdrawal motion filed Wednesday by firm partner Roberto Finzi.
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March 19, 2025
Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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March 19, 2025
Del. House Panel Sends Corporate Law Rework To Final Vote
A Delaware House committee on Wednesday sent toward a possible final House vote corporation law amendments that would create new "safe harbor" protections for officers, directors and controlling stockholders, shielding them from liability if they have conflicting interests in some corporate acts.
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March 19, 2025
'They're Walking Away': Ripple Labs Says SEC To Drop Appeal
Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse said Wednesday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will drop its Second Circuit appeal of a summary judgment in its headline-grabbing enforcement action over Ripple's XRP token.
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March 19, 2025
FCPA Uncertainty May Lead Attys To 'Gamble' On Disclosure
The Trump administration's pullback on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement is sowing confusion in the white collar bar, as companies consider whether to voluntarily disclose potential violations of the anti-bribery law while the chances of getting a favorable resolution seem good or keep quiet until the dust settles.
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March 18, 2025
Emisphere, Novo Nordisk Sale Suit On Track For Settlement
Former Emisphere Technologies Inc. stockholders are set to settle stockholder litigation over the $1.8 billion sale of the biotechnology company to Novo Nordisk A/S, a Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorney informed Delaware's Chancery Court on Tuesday, saying a stipulation of settlement should be in next month.
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March 18, 2025
PVC Pipe Giant's Top Brass Sued For Hiding Price-Fix Scheme
PVC pipe maker Atkore Inc.'s top executives and board members were hit with derivative claims Tuesday for allegedly shielding the company's participation in a pandemic-era price-fixing scheme, just days after investors sued the company and three executives for the same alleged conduct.
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March 18, 2025
OCC's Hood Says He Won't Tolerate 'Odious' Debanking
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's acting chief, Rodney Hood, told bankers on Tuesday that his agency won't tolerate so-called debanking, saying "lawful" businesses — including crypto firms — should be eligible for bank accounts and other services.
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March 18, 2025
Drugmaker's $10.5M Deal In Investor FDA Approval Suit OK'd
A California federal judge has preliminarily approved a $10.5 million settlement between oncology drug company ImmunityBio and investors who claim they were misled over the likelihood the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would approve the company's bladder cancer drug.
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March 18, 2025
Crypto Firms Tied To Milei-Promoted Libra Token Face NY Suit
A trio of crypto firms linked to a token known as Libra face a proposed class action accusing them of fraudulently raising $107 million from the controversial project, which was promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei prior to its collapse.
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March 18, 2025
Trading Giant Virtu Must Face Suit Over Confidentiality Issues
A New York federal judge has trimmed a consolidated class action accusing trading giant Virtu Financial Inc. of misleading investors on issues around access to confidential customer trading information, finding that one category of statements in the complaint is not actionable but otherwise allowing the suit to proceed.
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March 18, 2025
Citi, HSBC Ink $12M Deal To End UK Bond Price-Fixing Suit
A New York federal judge gave his preliminary blessing Monday to a $12 million settlement between investors and major financial institutions, including Citigroup and HSBC Bank, in a proposed antitrust class action accusing the banks' traders of colluding to fix the prices of U.K. government bonds through digital communications.
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March 18, 2025
PetroSaudi Says Feds' Suit Over $380M Award Must Proceed
A PetroSaudi unit is fighting the U.S. government's bid to stay its years-long suit to seize part of a $380 million arbitral award while criminal proceedings in Switzerland play out against the unit's former owner, telling a California federal court the move is a stall tactic.
Expert Analysis
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Deficiency Trends In National Futures Association Exams
A recent notice from the National Futures Association outlining the most common deficiencies uncovered during exams gives member firms an opportunity to review prior guidance, particularly regarding the hot topic of implementing procedures governing the use of outsourced service providers, say attorneys at Akin.
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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.
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Mastering The Fundamentals Of Life Sciences Due Diligence
As life sciences transactions continue to gain tremendous momentum, companies participating in these transactions must conduct effective and strategic regulatory due diligence, which involves extensive amounts of information and varies by manifold factors, says Anna Zhao at GunnerCooke.
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Lessons Learned From SAS' Flight Through Chapter 11
Scandinavia's SAS is the first European airline to find its wings through the U.S. Chapter 11 process since COVID-19 rocked the aviation industry — and while the process involved some familiar steps, certain complex jurisdictional issues and non-U.S. stakeholders required the carrier to venture into uncharted airspace, says Emily Hong at Norton Rose.
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Why NY May Want To Reconsider Its LLC Transparency Law
Against the backdrop of the myriad challenges to the federal Corporate Transparency Act, it may be prudent for New York to reconsider its adoption of the LLC Transparency Act, since it's unclear whether the Empire State's "baby-CTA" statute is still necessary or was passed prematurely, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Expectations For SEC Exams As Private Credit Market Grows
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may rely heavily on its Division of Examinations for regulating private credit markets amid their expansion into the retail investor space, so investment advisers should be prepared to address several likely areas of focus when confronted with an exam, say attorneys at Dechert.
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6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.
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What FERC Scrutiny Of Directors, Assets Means For Investors
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has recently paid dramatically increased attention to appointments of power company directors by investors, and ownership of vertical assets that provide inputs for electric power production and sale — so investors in FERC-regulated entities should be paying more attention to these matters as well, say attorneys at Day Pitney.
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What's Potentially In Store For CFTC Under New Leadership
Under the leadership of acting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Caroline Pham, and with the nomination of former commissioner Brian Quintenz to serve as permanent chair, the commission is set to widely embrace digital assets and event contracts, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Revived Executive Order Is A Deregulatory Boon To Banks
A recently reinstated 2019 executive order reveals the Trump administration’s willingness to provide unprecedented protections for regulated parties — including financial institutions — but to claim them, banks and other entities must adopt a forward-leaning posture to work with the regulators, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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3 Ways Civil Plaintiffs Could Fill An FCPA Enforcement Gap
While the Department of Justice recently announced it would deprioritize Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations into U.S. businesses without obvious ties to international crime, companies should stay alert to private plaintiffs, who could fill this enforcement void — and win significant civil damages — through several legal channels, says Eric Nitz at MoloLamken.
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Examining Trump Meme Coin And SEC's Crypto Changes
While the previous U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission tended to view most crypto-assets as securities, the tide is rapidly changing, and hopefully the long-needed reevaluation of this regulatory framework is not tarnished by an arguable conflict of interest due to President Donald Trump's affiliation with the $Trump meme coin, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.
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When Reincorporation Out Of Del. Isn't A Good Idea
While recent high-profile corporate moves out of Delaware have prompted discussion about the benefits of incorporation elsewhere, for many, remaining in the First State may be the right decision due to its deep body of business law, tradition of nonjury trials and other factors, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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Opinion
SEC Defense Bar Should Pursue Sanctions Flexibility Now
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defense bar has an opening under the new administration to propose flexible, tailored sanctions that can substantially remediate misconduct and prevent future wrongdoing instead of onerous penalties, which could set sanctions precedent for years to come, says Josh Hess at BCLP.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.