By Amanda Bronstad | January 30, 2018
Securities class action filings hit record levels in 2017, driven primarily by lawsuits challenging mergers and acquisitions, according to two prominent studies that came out this week.
By Tony Mauro | January 19, 2018
New York litigator Anton Metlitsky, a former clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., received the nod to argue his first-ever Supreme Court case after the Justice Department abandoned its defense.
By Andrew Denney | December 27, 2017
Evan Greebel, a former partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman who was at Kaye Scholer at the time of his arrest, was stone faced as a jury handed up guilty verdicts for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
By Ben Hancock | December 22, 2017
Lawyers at Morrison Cohen have stepped in to defend the alleged fraudsters behind the "PlexCoin" initial coin offering, and argue in a letter to a Brooklyn federal judge that the SEC has vastly overstepped its authority.
By Ben Hancock | December 4, 2017
In the first enforcement action initiated by its new "Cyber Unit," the SEC on Monday announced it has secured a court order to freeze the assets of individuals behind a "scam" initial coin offering.
By Marcia Coyle | November 30, 2017
U.S. securities officials, acting swiftly to conform to the U.S. Justice Department's new position in a pending case in the U.S. Supreme Court, on Thursday moved to foreclose new challenges to the lawfulness of the agency's five administrative law judges. The Justice Department now considers ALJs "officers" rather than mere employees of the agency.
By Marcia Coyle | November 28, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to interpret the Dodd-Frank Act to exclude whistleblower protections for employees who report alleged securities violations only to company management and not to the government.
By Tony Mauro | November 28, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed to agree on one aspect of a 1998 statute aimed at reforming securities litigation: It's all gibberish. An exasperated Justice Samuel Alito Jr. used the word "gibberish" three times during arguments in Cyan v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund. The California case asks the high court to interpret the language of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act regarding state jurisdiction over securities class actions.
By Ross Todd | November 21, 2017
Investors had accused the online review site of propping up its earnings by coercing businesses into buying ads to get fake negative reviews removed.
By C. Ryan Barber | November 21, 2017
Here's a deeper look, by the numbers, into the SEC whistleblower program's past and the awards that could be coming.
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