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April 11, 2025
Family Should Face Charges In $81M Tax Scheme, US Says
The U.S. government urged a New York federal court not to trim its complaint against the former shareholders of a family holding company accused of participating in an $81 million tax scheme, saying the family illegally avoided paying capital gains on its sale of the company.
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April 11, 2025
SEC, Ripple Put 2nd Circ. Case On Ice To Confirm Resolution
Blockchain firm Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told the Second Circuit to put their respective appeals on ice as they seek commission approval for an agreement to end the landmark enforcement action.
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April 11, 2025
NFT Owner Admits To Dodging Tax On Crypto Art Sales
A Pennsylvania man pled guilty to filing false tax returns and underreporting his income by $13.1 million after selling 97 nonfungible token artworks, federal prosecutors said Friday.
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April 11, 2025
Did DOJ Bless A Crypto Free-For-All? Think Again, Attys Say
The Justice Department's move to scale back cryptocurrency enforcement and dissolve its crypto fraud investigations unit isn't exactly a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for industry players who commit crimes using digital assets, experts say.
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April 11, 2025
Envestnet Sued For Docs On $4.5B Bain Capital Deal In Del.
A former trust investor in wealth and data management giant Envestnet Inc. sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Thursday for access to books and records on the company's $4.5 billion take-private deal with Bain Capital last year, citing concerns over both price and potential conflicts.
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April 10, 2025
2nd Circ. Says Investor Can't Join $250M Sri Lanka Bond Suit
The Second Circuit on Thursday held that a U.S.-based investor can't intervene in a lawsuit between the Sri Lankan government and Hamilton Reserve Bank over more than $250 million in foreign bonds, finding that the investor failed to show how his property interest in the bonds overlapped with the bank's claims.
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April 10, 2025
Senate Dems Press Fed's Bowman On Political Independence
President Donald Trump's pick for Federal Reserve supervision czar told senators on Thursday that the central bank should have independence to set monetary policy, but she declined to say whether its regulatory policy should be subject to White House review.
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April 10, 2025
Grayscale Settles Bitcoin Rival's Conn. Biz Interference Suit
Cryptocurrency firm Osprey Funds LLC and its larger digital asset management rival Grayscale Investments LLC have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the transition of a Grayscale bitcoin investment trust into an exchange-traded fund, or ETF.
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April 10, 2025
SEC Urged To Look At FINRA's 'Unprecedented' Review Delay
Shareholders of Entrex Carbon Market Inc. have urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to review what they say is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's harmful failure to act on the carbon offset trading platform's requests for a name change and approval of stock splits.
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April 10, 2025
YouTuber Defends Calling Logan Paul Crypto Project A 'Scam'
A YouTuber who called social media personality Logan Paul's failed crypto project a "scam" objected to a magistrate judge's recommendation to keep Paul's defamation claims in play, arguing the word has no objective definition.
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April 10, 2025
Nevada Can't Sue Kalshi Over Sports, Elections Betting
A Nevada federal judge has ruled that the state cannot prohibit online trading platform KalshiEx LLC from allowing users to place bets on the outcome of sports events and elections because both are currently permitted under federal law, preventing the state from pursuing legal action against the company.
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April 10, 2025
NY AG Calls For 'Common-Sense' Rules In Crypto Legislation
New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to leaders of both chambers of Congress on Thursday urging them to ensure that any crypto legislation includes strong guardrails to protect consumers, national security and market stability.
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April 10, 2025
Fla. Judge Won't Revisit 'Let's Go Brandon' Coin Class Cert.
A Florida federal judge won't reconsider his partial certification of a class of purchasers of meme-inspired cryptocurrency LGBCoin in a suit alleging the price of the tokens cratered after its much-hyped plan to sponsor the coin's eponymous NASCAR driver fell apart.
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April 10, 2025
Holmes Seeks Full 9th Circ. Review Of Theranos Fraud Appeal
Convicted Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked the Ninth Circuit for en banc review of a panel's decision to affirm her criminal fraud conviction and 11-year prison sentence, saying problems with the opinion included a "time-warping relevance theory."
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April 10, 2025
Ready Capital Brass Face Suit Over Real Estate Loan Losses
Executives and directors of real estate finance company Ready Capital Corp. were hit with a shareholder derivative suit alleging they failed to disclose that the company's nonperforming commercial real estate loans were damaging its bottom line and would force it to take "aggressive action" to preserve its finances.
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April 10, 2025
No Plan To Trim Do Kwon Case After Crypto Memo, Feds Say
A U.S. Department of Justice memo outlining the Trump administration's cryptocurrency policy and enforcement priorities has not prompted prosecutors to alter their $40 billion criminal fraud case against Terraform founder Do Kwon, a government lawyer told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday.
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April 10, 2025
NY Fines Block $40M For Cash App Compliance Failures
Jack Dorsey's financial technology firm Block Inc. said Thursday that it will pay a $40 million penalty to New York regulators over allegedly lax anti-money laundering procedures on its payments platform Cash App following a multistate settlement in January over similar alleged violations.
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April 10, 2025
Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick Beat BGC Stockholder Suit In Del.
A claim misclassification doomed a stockholder suit accusing Cantor Fitzgerald LP and former BGC Partners CEO Howard Lutnick — now U.S. commerce secretary — of lining up unfair terms when BGC went public in 2023 in a deal that diluted its minority shareholders, a Delaware vice chancellor ruled on Thursday.
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April 09, 2025
Trump Instructs Agencies To Quietly Repeal Regs If Possible
President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed federal agencies to prioritize repealing regulations that don't comply with a list of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding, among other things, the environment, administrative courts and affirmative action, instructing them to do so without public notice and comment if possible.
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April 09, 2025
'Evasive' Unions Told To List Fired Probationary Workers
The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive."
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April 09, 2025
Dems Decry 'Industry Wishlist' As House Mulls Crypto Rules
House Democrats on Wednesday sought to keep the Trump family's involvement in crypto ventures and the industry's lobbying efforts in sharp focus as lawmakers began devising market structure legislation for digital assets during a hearing.
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April 09, 2025
Shaq's $11M Deal With NFT Investors Gets Judge's Final OK
Hall of Fame basketball player Shaquille O'Neal and the creators of the Astrals nonfungible token project have received a judge's final approval of an $11 million deal to resolve a proposed securities class action with buyers of the tokens that O'Neal allegedly promoted.
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April 09, 2025
Fed Pick To Call For 'Reformed' Supervision, 'Pragmatic' Rules
President Donald Trump's nominee for a key bank policymaking role at the Federal Reserve will tell senators on Thursday that a back-to-basics "refocusing" of bank supervision and a return to regulatory "tailoring" are among the top priorities she plans to pursue on the job.
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April 09, 2025
Shopping App Founder Charged In $40M Fraud Scheme
New York federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they've charged Nate Inc.'s founder with securities and wire fraud for allegedly claiming that his AI-powered automated shopping app streamlined checkout processes for online purchases without human involvement, while hiding that foreign workers were manually processing transactions and defrauding investors out of $40 million.
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April 09, 2025
AI Audio Co. Brass Accused Of Acquisition Accounting Errors
Executives and directors of California-based voice recognition technology company SoundHound Inc. were hit with a shareholder derivative suit alleging they failed to disclose material weaknesses related to accounting for two acquisitions completed last year.
Expert Analysis
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4 Ways Women Attorneys Can Build A Legal Legacy
This Women’s History Month, women attorneys should consider what small, day-to-day actions they can take to help leave a lasting impact for future generations, even if it means mentoring one person or taking 10 minutes to make a plan, says Jackie Prester, a former shareholder at Baker Donelson.
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Why A Rare SEC Dismissal May Not Reflect A New Approach
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's pending dismissal of its case against Silver Point is remarkable to the extent that it reflects a novel repudiation of a decision made during the prior commission, a deeper look suggests it may not represent a shift in policy approach, say attorneys at Weil.
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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.