By Alaina Lancaster | June 9, 2020
Arrayit Corp. has been charged with the DOJ's first criminal securities fraud prosecution related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Ross Todd | June 8, 2020
Investors in Professional Financial Investors Inc. were sent letters last week indicating that the SEC had opened a fact-finding inquiry into Kenneth J. Casey, who died last month, and his companies' three decades of real estate investments in Marin County and the southern part of Sonoma County.
By Catherine Wilson | June 8, 2020
The Securities and Exchange Commission watched a Miami company's websites offering COVID-19 investment opportunities for weeks before filing a civil complaint.
By C. Ryan Barber | June 4, 2020
With the latest award, the SEC topped its previous record: a $39 million bounty issued in 2018.
By Jenna Greene | June 4, 2020
What's so unusual is how U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has handled competing claims by Labaton Sucharow and Robbins Geller to lead the nearly $4 billion case against Apple.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Anthony Michael Sabino | June 2, 2020
It is difficult to imagine a stranger juxtaposition than the #MeToo movement and federal securities law. The paramount goal of each is to right egregious, albeit different, wrongs, which may explain why they came together in 'Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern California v. CBS'. This case provides a cogent exposition of the maxims of pleading securities fraud, specifically in the context of supposed misstatements with regard to corporate ethics.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Russell Koonin and Adam Schwartz | June 2, 2020
In the midst the current COVID-19 pandemic, the SEC is paying attention. The Division of Enforcement has made clear that it will act, and act quickly, to stop fraudulent conduct that falls under its jurisdiction related to the pandemic.
By Alaina Lancaster | May 28, 2020
The agency said the San Jose cryptocurrency firm led an unregistered initial coin offering of its Consumer Activity Tokens.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert L. Hickok, Jay A. Dubow and Whitney R. Redding | May 28, 2020
A consistent theme has emerged in the SEC's COVID-19 response: the commission wants to offer flexibility to account for unavoidable difficulties that have arisen due to the pandemic, but the law still applies.
By Tom McParland | May 27, 2020
The Second Circuit noted that the proposed amended complaint did not challenge actions by individual defendants, and did not identify any executives whose intent or knowledge could be imputed to the companies.
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