By Alaina Lancaster | May 24, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission claims Daniel Pacheco offered investors an opportunity to speculate in cryptocurrency when he was operating a fraudulent pyramid scheme.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Deborah Meshulam, Benjamin Klein and Richard Kelley | April 24, 2019
This article provides an overview of the SEC's “Framework for 'Investment Contract' Analysis of Digital Assets” and explains how the SEC staff is likely to analyze digital assets. It also examines the concept that digital assets can reach a tipping point—an “evolutionary moment” in their development—where they transform from a security to non-security.
By Ross Todd | April 8, 2019
After the lead plaintiff asked to step aside in the proposed securities class action against the organizers of the Tezos initial coin offering, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg tapped Trigon Trading, the prior runner-up, over a proposed substitute lead plaintiff.
By Ross Todd | April 4, 2019
Dicke discusses what the new guidance means for the age-old question of: When is a digital token a security?
By Ross Todd | March 22, 2019
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. dismissed all California state law claims in the shareholder derivative lawsuit brought in the wake of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal. But the judge gave the plaintiffs a chance to amend their claims brought under the federal securities laws.
By Caroline Spiezio | March 13, 2019
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's counsel claimed the SEC has 'no basis to issue contempt sanctions against him' in a filing Monday, adding cited First Amendment concerns. But some lawyers said Musk's second round of incorrect, Tesla-focused tweets didn't meet the 'low bar' the SEC agreement set.
By Caroline Spiezio | February 26, 2019
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's tweets have again led to SEC trouble. The agency says Musk's recent tweets on the company's 2019 production estimates violate Tesla's settlement with the SEC.
By Ross Todd | February 15, 2019
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel granted a renewed injunction bid finding that Blockvest's promotional materials constituted an offer of unregistered securities containing materially false statements.
By Ross Todd | January 16, 2019
Artem Radchenko, 27, and Oleksandr Ieremenko, 26, both from Kiev, Ukraine, are alleged to have participated in a scheme to hack into SEC's EDGAR database to get nonpublic information. The SEC claims the participants' trades generated at least $4.1 million in illegal profits.
Legaltech News | Analysis|News
By Frank Ready | December 5, 2018
Malaysia's finance minister Lim Guan Eng recently announced that the country would be unveiling regulations for cryptocurrency exchanges and initial coin offerings, but it probably won't have much impact on the United States' approach.
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