Securities

  • February 25, 2025

    Another Crypto Co. Says SEC Inquiry Ends Without Action

    Decentralized finance platform Uniswap Labs announced Tuesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission closed its multi-year investigation into the firm, marking the latest crypto business to claim the regulator is walking away without taking action.

  • February 25, 2025

    SEC Is Asked For Background On Fugitive Trader's Death Docs

    A Connecticut federal judge has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for more information about its investigation into what appears to be a forged death certificate for a fugitive trader who fled to India nearly a decade ago.

  • February 25, 2025

    Tampa Bay Rays To Return $200K In Alleged Ponzi Proceeds

    A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement in which the Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to relinquish $200,000 the baseball team received for marketing services as part of an alleged Ponzi scheme.

  • February 25, 2025

    PCAOB Fines PwC Israel $2.75M For Training Exam Cheating

    An Israeli accounting firm affiliated with PricewaterhouseCoopers on Tuesday agreed to pay the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board $2.75 million to settle allegations that hundreds of personnel cheated on mandatory internal training courses.

  • February 25, 2025

    Macquarie Investors Fight To Keep Stock-Drop Suit Alive

    Investors accusing Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. of hiding the expected impact of a high-sulfur fuel ban on its oil storage business say that because the U.S. Supreme Court left most of their claims against the company intact, the district court should not grant dismissal on remand.

  • February 25, 2025

    Dem Commissioner To Leave CFTC Upon New Chair's Arrival

    U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Christy Goldsmith Romero said Tuesday afternoon that she plans to exit the agency as soon as Congress confirms the appointment of a new chair, likely leaving the financial markets regulator with only a single Democrat overseeing its activities. 

  • February 25, 2025

    SEC's Small Biz Panel Seeks Relief For Venture Funds

    A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission advisory group is recommending the agency ease rules to allow qualifying venture funds to attract more investors without registering with the SEC, hoping to bolster capital available to small businesses.

  • February 25, 2025

    Masimo Aims To DQ Hueston Hennigan As Ex-CEO's Counsel

    Masimo Corp. is urging the Delaware Chancery Court to disqualify Hueston Hennigan LLP from representing its founder and former CEO in a lawsuit over his quest for a $450 million payout from the medical technology company, arguing the firm has a conflict of interest.

  • February 25, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped Robinhood successfully navigate sprawling "meme stock" litigation, steered freight provider Forward Air to a soft landing in a merger suit and secured a pair of precedential appellate wins for insurance startup Root and Mylan, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2025

    Ex-Allianz Exec Avoids Prison As Massive Fraud Case Wraps

    A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday allowed a former fund executive from New Jersey to avoid prison for lying to clients of Allianz's U.S. unit, citing his cooperation as the government investigated a fraud that cost the German finance giant $6 billion.

  • February 24, 2025

    Lobbyist Abramoff Testifies At Fraud Trial Against Crypto CEO

    Disgraced Washington, D.C., power broker Jack Abramoff told jurors on Monday that he participated in a conspiracy with the founder of an "anti-money laundering" cryptocurrency company accused of bilking investors out of $5 million, testifying remotely due to a recent cancer diagnosis.

  • February 24, 2025

    Mining Co. Hit With Derivative Suit Over Stock Repurchases

    A shareholder of Newmont Corp. has sued the Colorado-based gold mining company's top brass, alleging they misrepresented financial information that artificially inflated stock prices and caused the company to overpay for repurchases of its own stock, among other things.

  • February 24, 2025

    SEC Crypto Task Force Wants Input, Commissioner Says

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce urged firms to bring their input to her Crypto Task Force in a Friday statement that outlined a series of questions the group is grappling with, including the taxonomy of tokens.

  • February 24, 2025

    Biotech Minority Investor Sues In Del. To Block Control Moves

    A company control and takeover battle between Aurion Biotech Inc. and a large investor made its second landing in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Monday, in a minority stockholder's direct and derivative suit accusing Alcon Research Inc. and its board designates of multiple fiduciary breaches.

  • February 24, 2025

    Robinhood, OpenSea Say SEC Closed Crypto Inquiries

    Robinhood said Monday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission "has officially closed" an investigation into its cryptocurrency arm without any enforcement action, joining a growing number of crypto matters the SEC has dropped or paused under the new Trump administration.

  • February 24, 2025

    PBMs To Challenge FTC Case At 8th Circ., But Without Pause

    A Missouri federal judge summarily refused, again, on Monday to temporarily block the Federal Trade Commission's in-house case accusing Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx of artificially inflating insulin prices, letting the case proceed while the pharmacy benefits managers appeal to the Eighth Circuit.

  • February 24, 2025

    SEC Could Loosen Income Limits On Startup Investments

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's acting chairman said Monday that the agency is looking at a number of changes aimed at freeing up capital for investment, including the possibility of allowing lower- and middle-income Americans to invest in private, early-stage companies.

  • February 24, 2025

    3rd Circ. Says $31M Order To Refill Class Funds Isn't Enough

    The Third Circuit on Monday vacated and sent back a district court's order for a New Jersey man convicted of stealing $40 million from settlements in stockholder class actions to pay $31 million in restitution, ruling the order didn't fully compensate each victim of the fraud.

  • February 24, 2025

    Investors Don't Have 'Shred' Of Fraud Evidence, Exxon Says

    Exxon Mobil Corp. has told a Texas federal judge that an investor class doesn't have a "shred of evidence" that the company engaged in the stock inflation scheme the investors allege.

  • February 24, 2025

    Micron Faces Insider Trading Suit In New Court

    A suit accusing Micron Technology Inc.'s brass of selling $70 million worth of stock just before the release of disappointing financial results has been refiled in an Idaho federal court, after an earlier iteration of the suit in a Florida federal court was voluntarily dismissed.

  • February 24, 2025

    Trump Media Seeks Shareholder Approval To Leave Delaware

    The owner of Donald Trump's social media platform plans to hold a shareholder vote in April asking investors whether it should move its legal address to Florida, potentially joining a growing number of companies reincorporating outside of Delaware.

  • February 24, 2025

    Moves To Change Del. Corporate Law Spark Pushback

    A public opposition campaign complete with website and street signs has surfaced to oppose corporation and bar-backed legislation that would overhaul Delaware stockholder litigation rights and fee awards, intensifying an already unprecedented political fight that broke out last year over corporate governance concessions.

  • February 24, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's attorneys recently secured over half a billion dollars for investors of government-sponsored mortgages in their suit against the federal government, and millions more for investors of publicly traded companies like Qualcomm and Perrigo, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2025

    SEC Corporate Finance Leader Joins Gibson Dunn in DC

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired an attorney who has spent the majority of her professional career working with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in several positions, the firm announced Monday.

  • February 24, 2025

    Elizabeth Holmes Loses 9th Circ. Appeal Over Theranos Fraud

    A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday affirmed the criminal fraud convictions of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani along with their respective 11-year and nearly 13-year prison sentences, rejecting arguments that the lower court made multiple evidentiary errors that unfairly swayed jurors.

Expert Analysis

  • Predicting The Lasting Changes CFPB May Face In 2025

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    President-elect Donald Trump and the incoming Republican-controlled Congress' likely attempts to reshape the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could significantly alter its rulemaking, supervisory and enforcement abilities for years to come, says Jim Sandy at McGlinchey Stafford.

  • What To Watch For In The 2025 Benefits Landscape

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    While planning for 2025, retirement plan sponsors and service providers should set their focus on phased implementation deadlines under both Secure 1.0 and 2.0, an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and the fate of several U.S. Department of Labor regulations, says Allie Itami at Lathrop GPM.

  • How White Collar Enforcement May Shift In Trump's 2nd Term

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    After President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next month, the administration’s emphasis on immigration laws, drug offenses and violent crime will likely reduce the focus on white collar crime overall, but certain areas within the white collar world may see increased activity, say attorneys at Keker Van Nest.

  • COP29 Offers Pathway To A Global Carbon Market

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    COP29, the recently concluded United Nations climate conference, represented a breakthrough in the establishment of standards for a global carbon market — and voluntary carbon market participants in the U.S. and elsewhere can enhance the value of their projects by aligning them with these standards, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • New Trump Admin May Bring Financial Oversight Turbulence

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    As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to begin his second term, his top financial market regulatory and securities law enforcement appointees, campaign promises, and regulatory preferences foretell a period of muddy regulatory waters, say attorneys at Kroll.

  • The Justices' Securities Rulings, Dismissals That Defined '24

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 securities rulings led to increased success for defendants' price impact arguments, but the justices' decisions not to weigh in on important issues relating to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's pleading requirements may be just as significant, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Series

    Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    From problem-solving to patience and adaptability to organization, the skills developed working under the hood of a car directly translate to being a more effective lawyer, says Christopher Mdeway at Kaufman Dolowich.

  • 2024 Has Been A Momentous Year For ESG

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    Significant developments in the environmental, social and governance landscape this year include new legislation, evolving global frameworks, continued litigation and enforcement actions, and a U.S. Supreme Court decision that has already affected how lower courts have viewed some ESG challenges, say attorneys at Katten.

  • Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team

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    In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.

  • The Story Of 2024's Biggest Bank Regs, And Their Fate In 2025

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    U.S. federal bank regulators were very active in 2024 with initiatives ranging from antitrust and capital to proposals regarding controlling shareholders and incentive-based compensation, but many regulations face an uncertain future under the new administration, say attorneys at Latham.

  • Musk Pay Fight Shows Investor Approval Isn't Universal Cure

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent denial of a motion revising its prior rescission of Elon Musk's nearly $56 billion compensation package is a reminder of the heightened standard corporate boards must meet in conflicted controller transactions and that stockholder approval doesn't automatically cure fiduciary wrongdoing, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • Data Privacy Landscape After Mass. Justices' Wiretap Ruling

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    In Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts’ highest court recently ruled that the state’s wiretap law doesn’t prohibit all tracking of website user activity, but major financial and reputational risks remain for businesses that aren't transparent about customer’s web data, says Seth Berman at Nutter.

  • Compliance Lessons From Raytheon's FCPA Settlement

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    A recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act action involving aerospace and defense company Raytheon underscores the importance of risk management related to retaining and overseeing third parties — especially in higher-risk jurisdictions — and the promotion of a companywide culture of compliance, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Opinion

    Justices Rightly Corrected Course In Nvidia And Facebook

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    By dismissing both the Nvidia and Facebook class actions, over investors' ability to hold corporations accountable for fraud, the U.S. Supreme Court was right in refusing to favor corporations over transparency, and reaffirmed its commitment to corporate accountability, investor protection and the rule of law, says Laura Posner at Cohen Milstein.

  • Gov't Scrutiny Of Workplace Chat Apps Set To Keep Growing

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    The incoming Trump administration and Republican majorities in Congress are poised to open numerous investigations that include increasing demands for entities to produce communications from workplace chat apps, so companies must evaluate their usage and retention policies, say attorneys at Orrick.

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