Securities

  • November 06, 2024

    Stifel Balks At CFTC Offer To Settle Text Messaging Case

    Stifel said Wednesday that it has rejected an offer to settle U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission claims tied to off-channel communications use, the latest in an industry sweep that previously saw the boutique investment bank settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $35 million.

  • November 06, 2024

    Justices Eye Narrowing Disclosure Rules In Meta Investor Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to hand Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. a narrow victory in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as justices put up a range of hypothetical scenarios to try to pin down when exactly a company needs to disclose to investors that a past event could cause future damage to its business.

  • November 06, 2024

    Tempur Sealy, Mattress Firm Ask Court To Pause FTC Case

    Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm asked a Texas federal court to prevent the Federal Trade Commission's in-house merger case from moving ahead until after there is a decision on their constitutional challenge of the agency's process.

  • November 06, 2024

    Insurers Urge Del. Justices To Reverse Drug Co. Policy Ruling

    Attorneys for three insurers battling Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. over potential director and officer insurance payouts in a securities action launched before Alexion received a separate federal regulator penalty told Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday that a lower court decision wrongly sided with the company on coverage worth an additional $20 million.

  • November 06, 2024

    Coinbase, CFTC Reach Discovery Agreement For SEC Case

    Coinbase said it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on certain search terms that it believes satisfies its discovery needs in its ongoing securities enforcement case, resolving an earlier motion to compel the futures regulator to provide certain communications with crypto firms.

  • November 06, 2024

    FINRA Fines Firm Over Lax Real Estate Investment Diligence

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ordered broker-dealer XP to pay $800,000 in restitution and penalties to settle claims that, among other things, it recommended investments in a series of real estate-focused private placements without conducting proper due diligence on them, leading to investor losses when the offerings flopped.

  • November 06, 2024

    Extradited Fund Manager Denies Stealing $3.4M In Conn.

    The former manager of a Connecticut investment fund, who spent almost a year in custody in South America, has denied federal charges that he stole about $3.4 million from investors who thought he was running a conservative hedge fund with consistent returns.

  • November 06, 2024

    Ex-GE Exec Called 'Innocent Victim' In $1.1B Forgery Trial

    Counsel for a former GE Power executive accused of taking a $5 million kickback after forging documents to close a $1.1 billion gas turbine deal in Angola suggested to a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday that others were behind the fraud.

  • November 05, 2024

    What Trump's Return Means For Bank Regulation: 5 Questions

    With former President Donald Trump now projected to return to the White House, financial services attorneys are predicting the banking industry will see a sharp rightward turn at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a much softer touch elsewhere in the federal regulatory arena.

  • November 05, 2024

    Trump's Win Expected To Pare Back Gensler's SEC Agenda

    The reelection of President Donald Trump will bring with it many big changes to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including a new chair who could set a more crypto- and business-friendly policy that would translate into a downtick in rulemaking and enforcement cases in comparison to outgoing President Joe Biden.

  • November 05, 2024

    Trump Has Official Immunity. What About His Aides?

    Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity extends to subordinates who follow a president's orders has become a more pressing question in the wake of Donald Trump's projected election win, according to legal experts.

  • November 05, 2024

    How Trump Can Quash His Criminal Cases

    Donald Trump's projected victory at the polls also translates to a win in the courts, as the second-term president will have the power to end both of his federal criminal cases. And the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity would shield him from any consequences for ordering his charges to be dismissed, experts say.

  • November 05, 2024

    An Early Look At Trump's Supreme Court Shortlist

    With former President Donald Trump projected to win the 2024 presidential election and the Republicans' success in securing the U.S. Senate majority, Trump may now get the chance to appoint two more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, cementing the court's conservative tilt for decades to come.

  • November 05, 2024

    GOP's Senate Win Hands Future Of The Judiciary To Trump

    Republicans were projected to take back the White House and Senate and possibly the House early Wednesday, putting the GOP in position to back Donald Trump's agenda and his slate of young, conservative judicial nominees. 

  • November 05, 2024

    The Firms With An Inside Track To A New Trump Admin

    Law firms that have represented Donald Trump and the Republican Party on everything from personal legal woes to election-related lawsuits could see the risks of that work pay dividends as Trump is projected to secure a second term in office.

  • November 05, 2024

    Trump Media Reports $19M Quarterly Loss On Election Day

    The parent of projected Republican presidential winner Donald Trump's social media platform reported a $19.2 million quarterly loss in an Election Day filing Tuesday, the same day trading of its shares were halted three times because of volatility.

  • November 05, 2024

    SEC Beats Stockbroker Challenge To BSA Enforcement

    A Utah federal judge on Tuesday tossed Scottsdale Capital Advisors' lawsuit accusing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of wrongfully enforcing the suspicious activity reporting regulations under the Bank Secrecy Act, finding the microcap broker-dealer didn't show that the underlying enforcement action is subject to judicial review.

  • November 05, 2024

    FTX Says Convicted Former Exec Must Cough Up $99M

    The bankruptcy estate of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has asked a Delaware federal bankruptcy court to order former executive Ryan Salame to relinquish $98.8 million in assets, according to an avoidance action filed Monday.

  • November 05, 2024

    Lululemon Brass Face Derivative Suit Over Inventory Issues

    Officers and directors of activewear retailer Lululemon Athletica Inc. have been hit with a shareholder derivative suit alleging they concealed challenges including inventory allocation that ultimately hurt the company's sales.

  • November 05, 2024

    SEC Risk Alert Flags Investment Fund Oversight, Disclosures

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's exams unit is flagging common issues among investment funds in recent years, including funds mischaracterizing how so-called ESG factors play into their investment strategies and chief compliance officers failing to submit certain reports to fund boards.

  • November 05, 2024

    Groups Lose Early Bid To Undo Calif. Climate Disclosure Laws

    A California federal judge rejected the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups' attempt to block California's corporate climate disclosure rules before discovery, ruling Tuesday that discovery is needed for the court to answer whether the laws facially violate the First Amendment.

  • November 05, 2024

    Binance Says New SEC Complaint Suffers Same Old Flaws

    Cryptocurrency exchange Binance told a Washington, D.C., federal judge the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can't continue to argue that secondary sales of digital assets are securities transactions in its enforcement suit against the trading platform after the regulator acquiesced that the tokens themselves aren't investment contracts.

  • November 05, 2024

    Bright Health Beats Investor Suit Over COVID-19 Costs

    The health insurer previously known as Bright Health Group Inc. no longer faces a proposed investor class action after a Brooklyn federal judge found that the company's initial public offering risk disclosures hadn't deliberately misled investors about its anticipated costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • November 05, 2024

    Alerus Financial Can't Escape DOL's Stock Valuation Suit

    An Idaho federal judge refused to toss the U.S. Department of Labor's suit against Alerus Financial alleging mismanagement of an employee stock ownership plan, but agreed to dismiss some claims against a Norco Inc. executive who sold more than $141 million of private company stock to the ESOP.

  • November 05, 2024

    New Fortress Energy Faces Investor Suit Over Outlook

    New Fortress Energy was hit with a proposed investor class action in New York federal court alleging the natural gas company and its top brass misled investors about the company's growth and revenue outlook, which led to a stock drop once the truth came to light.

Expert Analysis

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • Don't Phone A Friend: Disclosing Friendships With Executives

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent settlement against a former Church & Dwight chairman for violating proxy disclosure rules by neglecting to disclose his friendship with an executive officer amid a CEO search illustrates the perils of relying solely on responses to questionnaires circulated to boards, say attorneys at BCLP.

  • Why Diversity Jurisdiction Poses Investment Fund Hurdles

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    Federal courts' continued application of the exacting rules of diversity jurisdiction presents particular challenges for investment funds, and in the absence of any near-term reform, those who manage such funds should take action to avoid diversity jurisdiction pitfalls, say attorneys at Sher Tremonte.

  • The Ups And Downs Of SEC's Now-Dissolved ESG Task Force

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Climate and ESG Enforcement Task Force, which was quietly disbanded sometime over the summer, was marked by three years of resistance from some stakeholders to ESG regulation, a mixed record in the courts and several successful enforcement actions, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Series

    Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.

  • Opinion

    It's Time To Sound The Alarm About Lost Labor Rights

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    In the Fifth Circuit, recent rulings from judges appointed by former President Donald Trump have dismantled workers’ core labor rights, a troubling trend that we cannot risk extending under another Trump administration, say Sharon Block and Raj Nayak at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy.

  • SEC Fine Shows Risks Of Nonpublic Info In X, LinkedIn Posts

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced a settlement with DraftKings over charges arising from posting material nonpublic information on the CEO's social media accounts, highlighting that information posted to company websites and social media sites does not automatically qualify as "publicly disclosed" for purposes of Regulation FD, say attorneys at O'Melveny.

  • Anticipating Jarkesy's Effect On Bank Agency Enforcement

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    Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, federal courts may eventually issue decisions on banking law principles and processes that could fundamentally alter the agencies' enforcement action framework, and the relationship between banks and examiners, says Brendan Clegg at Luse Gorman.

  • CFTC Anti-Fraud Blitz Is A Warning To Carbon Credit Sellers

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    With its recent enforcement actions against a carbon offset project developer and its senior executives for reporting false information about the energy savings of the company's projects, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is staking out its position as a primary regulator in the voluntary carbon credit market, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Unpacking State AG Approaches To Digital Asset Enforcement

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    Attorneys at Cozen O'Connor survey recent digital asset enforcement by attorneys general nationwide driven by concerns over regulatory gaps where technological developments and market changes have outpaced legislation.

  • 3 Takeaways From Navy Shipbuilder's Fraud Guilty Plea

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    Austal USA’s recent plea agreement over accounting fraud charges highlights for other companies the benefits of cooperating with government investigations, the challenges posed by senior executives’ involvement in misconduct, and the high stakes for defense contractors, say Michael DeBernardis and Shayda Vance at Hughes Hubbard.

  • Opinion

    Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits

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    With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.

  • Peeling Back The Layers Of SEC's Equity Trading Reforms

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently adopted amendments lowering the tick sizes for stock trading and reducing access fee caps will benefit investors and necessitate broad systems changes — if they can first survive judicial challenges, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program

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    During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.

  • Bristol-Myers Win Offers Lessons For Debt Security Holders

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    A New York federal judge's recent dismissal of a $6.4 billion lawsuit against Bristol-Myers Squibb, due to plaintiff UMB Bank's lack of standing, serves as an important reminder to debt security holders to obtain depositary proxies before pursuing litigation, say attorneys at Milbank.

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