Securities

  • August 13, 2025

    Mass. Loan Biz Morphed Into $7.6M Ponzi Scheme, State Says

    A Massachusetts woman turned her family's small auto financing business into a $7.6 million Ponzi scheme, the state's Securities Division alleged in a complaint.

  • August 12, 2025

    Accountant, Firm Settle SEC's Fintech Fraud Suit For $200K

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has settled claims in New York federal court against a Nigerian accountant and his firm accused of helping the operator of the Tingo fintech businesses conceal fake audit reports that inflated the value of the firms to further the "massive" fintech fraud.

  • August 12, 2025

    SelectQuote Investor Sues Over Feds' Kickback Probe

    Insurance broker SelectQuote Inc. and three of its current and former executives face a proposed investor class action alleging the company kept investors in the dark as it accepted illegal kickbacks for steering Medicare beneficiaries to certain insurers, precipitating False Claims Act allegations from a whistleblower and subsequently the government.

  • August 12, 2025

    Goldman Sachs Objector's $517K Fee Bid Slashed To $50K

    A Delaware vice chancellor has slashed an objector's counsel fee and expense request from $517,000 to $50,000 as part of a settlement in a derivative suit against Goldman Sachs directors, and awarded the plaintiffs their sought-after $612,500 in fees.

  • August 12, 2025

    Solar Aircraft Co.'s Top Brass Hit With Investor Fraud Suit

    A majority shareholder of solar aircraft company Skydweller Aero Inc. has filed suit against the top brass of the U.S.-Spanish aerospace venture, claiming the CEO and others misled the shareholder about the company's "dire" financial condition and denied it access to critical financial information, obstructing its ability to evaluate its investment or exit its equity position.

  • August 12, 2025

    Bank Groups Call For Closing Stablecoin Law's 'Loopholes'

    The American Bankers Association and more than 50 state counterparts on Tuesday urged Senate lawmakers to close several "loopholes" in a recently enacted federal law to regulate stablecoins with recommended additions to a separate proposal to regulate crypto markets.

  • August 12, 2025

    Terraform Founder Cops To $40B Crypto Fraud Scheme

    The founder and former CEO of Terraform Labs on Tuesday admitted to perpetrating a multibillion-dollar fraud by deceiving investors about its decentralized finance-based ecosystem of crypto products, a scheme that wiped out $40 billion in market value when it collapsed.

  • August 12, 2025

    Airbnb Wants Conservative Shareholder Proposal Suit Tossed

    Airbnb has asked a Delaware federal court to toss a suit alleging the vacation rental company wrongfully excluded conservative shareholders' proposals from its 2025 proxy materials, arguing they haven't alleged anyone at the company knew about the proposals at all.

  • August 12, 2025

    3rd Circ. Spurns Perrigo Investor's Bid To Avoid $97M Deal

    A major shareholder in Perrigo Co. PLC has been barred from opting out of a $97 million securities class action settlement, after the Third Circuit held in a precedential opinion on Tuesday that the investor must bear the consequences of its counsel's failure to timely request exclusion.

  • August 12, 2025

    SEC Fines Firm Owner $4M Over AI Pyramid Scheme Claims

    The Florida owner of a multilevel marketing company agreed to a $4 million penalty to resolve a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit that accused him of fraudulently raising $108 million for the purported development of artificial intelligence-powered software products, according to a consent order filed Tuesday.

  • August 12, 2025

    AstraZeneca, Stockholders Far Apart In Merger Damages Tally

    Syntimmune Inc. stockholders and Alexion Pharmaceuticals have landed tens of millions of dollars apart in new tallies of interest owed after a Court of Chancery ruling in June that Alexion failed a "best efforts" duty to fulfill an autoimmune drug candidate deal.

  • August 12, 2025

    Feds Say High Court Case Supports Discord Trader Indictment

    Federal prosecutors and a group of men accused of running a $114 million pump-and-dump stock scheme over Discord have made their case for whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision means a judge was correct in tossing a 21-count indictment against the men.

  • August 12, 2025

    Insurer Obstructed $116M In Funding Claims, Court Told

    A company that invested in a personal injury law firm's docket of cases alleges in a lawsuit removed to North Carolina federal court that its insurer "intentionally obstructed" its recovery of more than $116 million in coverage under policies insuring that investment.

  • August 12, 2025

    No New Foreign Bribery Trial For Ex-Connecticut Oil Trader

    A former Connecticut oil trader faces sentencing Nov. 4 after a federal judge declined to overturn a jury's verdict finding him guilty of paying bribes to an official at Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA and laundering money.

  • August 12, 2025

    Reddit Brass Face Investor Suit Over AI-Impacted Web Traffic

    Reddit's leadership has been hit with a derivative shareholder suit over allegedly concealing the impact of Google's search algorithm changes and new artificial intelligence-generated answer features, which the suit claims reduced traffic to the social media site.

  • August 12, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Rejects Another Fannie, Freddie Investor Suit

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit accusing the federal government of profiting off Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to other shareholders' detriment, saying the case was seeking to rehash arguments the court rejected three years ago.

  • August 12, 2025

    DOL Yanks 2021 Guidance On Private Equity 401(k) Risks

    The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm on Tuesday rescinded guidance from 2021 that warned 401(k) plan managers about the risks of investing in private equity, which comes after an executive order last week that called for expanding access to alternative asset classes in defined-contribution retirement plan investing.

  • August 12, 2025

    Truist Wants Out Of Law Firm's $94K Wire Scam Suit

    Truist Financial Corp. has asked a Delaware federal judge to dismiss a law firm's suit over a botched real estate wire transfer, arguing in a dismissal motion that the firm named the wrong entity in its complaint, but that even if the correct Truist had been named, the claims must fail as a matter of law.

  • August 12, 2025

    Pa. Guilty Plea Means Nothing To Malpractice Case, Atty Says

    An ex-chief financial officer suing his former attorney for allegedly coercing him into a consent agreement that landed him with an over $12 million judgment has urged a Florida federal court to keep his malpractice case against the attorney on track.

  • August 12, 2025

    Ex-Cognizant, Chevron Exec Joining Galaxy Digital As CLO

    Crypto institutional investment and trading firm Galaxy Digital has found a new chief legal officer in the former general counsel of Cognizant Technology Solutions, who also held roles at Chevron and UnitedHealth Group.

  • August 11, 2025

    5th Circ. Backs Mexican Banks' Subpoena For Fraud Case

    The Fifth Circuit on Monday refused to revive a Mexican businessman's motion to quash a subpoena stemming from major Mexican financial institutions' efforts to obtain discovery as they pursue claims that the businessman absconded with $32 million in loans, saying it detected "no error" in a lower court's denial.

  • August 11, 2025

    9th Circ. Affirms SEC Win In Life Insurance Investment Row

    The Ninth Circuit ruled in a published opinion Monday that fractional interests in life settlements are investment contracts and thus securities, backing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's win against Pacific West Capital Group agents, who the SEC alleged sold unregistered securities and didn't properly register as broker-dealers.

  • August 11, 2025

    Calif. Trader To Pay SEC $358K Over Spoofing Allegations

    A former day trader has agreed to give the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nearly $358,000 to end claims he manipulated options markets by means of so-called spoofing, illegally making about $234,000.

  • August 11, 2025

    'Flipping NJ' Developer Fights Charges, Citing Habba's Role

    A New Jersey real estate developer and influencer, who is accused of running a Ponzi-like investment fraud scheme and laundering drug money, on Monday became the latest defendant to seek dismissal of his indictment over what he says was the illegal appointment of Alina Habba as acting U.S. attorney for the Garden State.

  • August 11, 2025

    4 Takeaways From Trump's Order To Expand 401(k) Assets

    President Donald Trump's recent executive order aimed at expanding 401(k) savers' access to nontraditional 401(k) assets like private equity and crypto could open up a greater portion of the financial market to retirement savers, attorneys say, though plenty of regulatory hurdles lie ahead. Here, Law360 looks at four key takeaways on the order with attorneys and experts.

Expert Analysis

  • Reassessing Corporate Separateness After Explosion Of LLCs

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    Following the dramatic increase of limited liability companies in the U.S., the Corporate Transparency Act's enactment and the Trump administration's subsequent narrowing of that law, it's worth revisiting the underlying legal principles that govern shell companies in order to remedy the problems that initially motivated the CTA, says Jeff Newton at Omni Bridgeway.

  • Series

    Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.

  • Addressing PFAS Risks In Public Company Disclosures

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    As individual lawsuits and class actions over PFAS risks spanning multiple sectors and products increase, and rapidly evolving and often unclear regulatory initiatives on both the federal and state levels proliferate, it's more important than ever for companies to know how and when to complete PFAS-related disclosures, say attorneys at Venable.

  • Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook

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    The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.

  • The Potential Efficiencies, Risks Of Folding PCAOB Into SEC

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    Integrating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission offers the potential for regulatory efficiencies, as well as a more streamlined and consistent enforcement approach, but it also presents constitutional and operational uncertainties, say attorneys at Hilgers Graben.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw

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    While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.

  • Reviewing Trump Admin's Rapid Pro-Crypto Regulatory Pivot

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    The digital asset industry has received a boost from the explicitly pro-crypto Trump administration, which in its first few months reversed Biden-era rules and installed industry proponents at regulatory agencies, marking one of the biggest regulatory about-faces by a government in recent memory, says Robert Appleton at Olshan Frome.

  • Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them

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    Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.

  • A 2-Step System For Choosing A Digital Asset Reporting Path

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    Under the Internal Revenue Service's new digital asset reporting regulation, each type of asset may have three potential reporting destinations, so a detailed testing framework can help to determine the appropriate path, says Keval Sonecha at Sonecha & Amlani.

  • Foreign Countries Have Strong Foundation To Fill FCPA Void

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    Though the U.S. has paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, liberal democracies across the globe are well equipped to reverse any setback in anti-corruption enforcement, potentially heightening prosecution risk for companies headquartered in the U.S., says Stephen Kohn at Kohn Kohn.

  • How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients

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    Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.

  • A Tale Of Two Admins: Parsing 1st Half Of SEC's FY 2025

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    The first half of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal year 2025, which ended March 31, was unusually eventful, marked by a flurry of enforcement actions in the last three months of former Chair Gary Gensler's tenure and a prompt pivot after Inauguration Day, say attorneys at Jones Day.

  • How Banks Can Manage Risk As AI Adoption Expands

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    Following new, supportive comments from financial regulatory leaders about the use of artificial intelligence in the industry, banks may move toward wider, less-tentative adoption of the technology, but will also need to deploy important risk management measures, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • What Bank Regulator Consolidation Would Mean For Industry

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    Speculation over the Trump administration’s potential plans to consolidate financial service regulators is intensifying uncertainty, but no matter the outcome for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the industry should expect continued policy changes, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • Getting Ahead Of The SEC's Continued Focus On Cyber, AI

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is showing it will continue to scrutinize actions involving cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, but there are proactive measures that companies and financial institutions can take to avoid regulatory scrutiny going forward, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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