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April 24, 2025
Firm Fights IRS' $33M Boost To Self-Employment Income
The Internal Revenue Service wrongly subjected nearly $33 million of a New York investment firm's income to self-employment taxes by disqualifying the firm's limited partners and taxing their distributions, it alleged in two U.S. Tax Court petitions.
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April 24, 2025
Appeal Fast-Tracked In Feud Over Use Of Ex-Atty's Name
The Second Circuit has fast-tracked an appeal by a Connecticut attorney who lost a lawsuit over his former law firm's alleged unauthorized use of his name and likeness after his firing.
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April 24, 2025
Latham-Led LLR Clinches 7th Fund With $2.45B Committed
Latham & Watkins LLP-advised LLR Partners on Thursday announced that it wrapped its seventh private equity fund with $2.45 billion in tow.
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April 23, 2025
Ex-Rep Should Pay $25K For 'Sham' Lawsuit, Fla. Judge Told
A real estate holding company owner told a Florida state court judge Wednesday that he's owed about $25,000 in legal fees for defending against a "sham" contract breach lawsuit alleging he assisted officials investigating possible foreign agent crimes against a former congressman, saying the agreements at issue were declared invalid.
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April 23, 2025
Ind. Broker-Dealer Pays FINRA Fine To Settle L Bonds Claims
An Indiana-headquartered brokerage firm is the latest to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims related to its representatives' recommendations of certain risky alternative investments like bonds offered by the now-bankrupt company GWG Holdings Inc.
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April 23, 2025
CEOs Urge SEC To Ban Political Activists' Proxy Proposals
The Business Roundtable on Wednesday urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress to quickly reform the shareholder proposal process for public companies, including by banning activists' proposals relating to environmental, social and political issues, saying proxy statements have become "battlegrounds for political debates."
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April 23, 2025
Retirement Co. Hit With $38.8M Jury Verdict In ERISA Action
A New York federal jury Wednesday awarded a 27,000-member class of retirement plan participants nearly $38.8 million after finding that Pentegra Retirement Services violated federal benefits law by saddling a $2.1 billion 401(k) plan with excessive administrative fees.
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April 23, 2025
Citron Research Founder Can't Escape SEC Fraud Suit
The founder of trading advice website Citron Research and his investment advisory firm cannot escape the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit alleging they raked in $20 million by manipulating trading prices, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the complaint adequately alleges fraud.
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April 23, 2025
FINRA Acts On Entrex Application After SEC Gets Complaint
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has approved Entrex Carbon Market Inc.'s requests for a name change and approval of stock splits, shareholders of the carbon offset trading platform have said, although they indicated they will proceed pursuing structural reforms at the self-regulating watchdog of brokers.
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April 23, 2025
Severance Deal Bars 401(K) Suit, Whataburger Tells 5th Circ.
Whataburger asked the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday to uphold the dismissal of an ex-worker's suit claiming the company failed to trim underperforming investment funds from its $215 million retirement plan, stating the lower court correctly found a release he signed doomed his case.
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April 23, 2025
Software Co. Can't Escape 401(k) Investment Suit
A California federal judge refused to toss a federal benefits lawsuit from former ServiceNow employees alleging the cloud computing company kept an underperforming suite of target-date funds in its 401(k) plan for over a decade, finding allegations of a deficient process should proceed to discovery.
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April 23, 2025
Tech-Focused Texas Ventures SPAC Raises $200M IPO
Shares of special purpose acquisition company Texas Ventures Acquisition III began trading on Wednesday after the company raised $200 million in its initial public offering, with plans to seek out a merger with an industrial technology company.
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April 23, 2025
Silvergate Settles Securities Class Action For $37.5M In Ch. 11
The parent company of Silvergate Bank has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve a new deal to settle a securities class action for $37.5 million and resolve a slew of indemnification issues in its Chapter 11, a resolution that the debtor said would save it potentially millions of dollars in legal fees.
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April 23, 2025
Investment Fund Insists On DQing Connell Foley From Bias Suit
A Black-owned investment company asked a New Jersey federal court to overturn a magistrate judge's decision denying its bid to disqualify a Connell Foley LLP attorney from representing the state in the investment firm's bias case.
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April 23, 2025
GOP Leader Proposes Modernizing Contractor Rules
U.S. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Wednesday unveiled proposals he says will modernize the independent contractor model without hindering workers' flexibility and profit opportunities, suggesting several changes Congress could take.
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April 23, 2025
3 Firms Guide Launch Of $3.6B SoftBank-Backed Bitcoin Co.
Bitcoin investment startup Twenty One Capital Inc. plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with Cantor Fitzgerald at a $3.6 billion valuation, in a deal guided by three law firms, the parties announced on Wednesday.
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April 23, 2025
Sidley-Led Stonepeak Plugs $1.5B Into New Data Center Biz
Infrastructure and real assets-focused private equity shop Stonepeak, advised by Sidley Austin LLP, revealed on Wednesday that it launched a new North American hyperscale-focused data center company with a $1.5 billion equity commitment.
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April 22, 2025
Fed's Buffer Plan Marks Start Of Stress Test Reform 'Journey'
The Federal Reserve entered a new era last week with a proposal to smooth out fluctuations in a key capital requirement for big banks, making an opening move toward what industry experts see as potentially much bigger stress-testing reforms on the horizon.
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April 22, 2025
Texas Court Questions $55M Arbitration Award's Validity
A Texas appeals panel asked why a $55 million arbitration award to the former director of a Dallas alternative asset investment company can't float just because the arbitrator based the damages on securities filings, saying Tuesday that arbitrators have broad discretion to determine damages.
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April 22, 2025
Majority Shareholders Sanctioned In Telecoms Control Fight
A New York federal judge Tuesday sanctioned the majority shareholders of telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holdings Ltd. for ignoring arbitral awards issued in a bitter, yearslong dispute over control of the company.
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April 22, 2025
FTX Ch. 11 Trust Says Ex-Exec's Wife Spent $600K Since Dec.
The FTX Recovery Trust urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to enjoin the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame from spending additional money that the trust said was fraudulently taken from the company before its bankruptcy filing, saying Michelle Bond has spent more than $600,000 since mid-December on legal fees, luxury vacations and credit card bills.
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April 22, 2025
CFTC Wants Input On 24/7 Trading, Perpetual Contracts
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking the public for feedback on how it should address the availability of 24-hour trading as well as so-called perpetual derivatives that are sometimes used to speculate on the price of cryptocurrencies.
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April 22, 2025
Ark. Offers Credit For 50% Of New Payroll For HQ Relocations
Arkansas created an income tax credit for businesses that relocate their corporate headquarters to the state equal to up to 50% of their payroll for qualifying employees under a bill signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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April 22, 2025
Venture Guides Clinches Second Fund With $262.5M In Tow
Cooley LLP-led Venture Guides, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage infrastructure software companies, on Tuesday revealed that it clinched its second fund after securing $262.5 million of investor commitments.
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April 22, 2025
Chase Bank Can't Ditch Claims It Aided $119M Ponzi Scam
A California federal judge trimmed on Monday SiliconSage Builders LLC receiver's lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase of allegedly helping the now-defunct real estate developer carry out a massive $119 million Ponzi scheme, tossing an unjust enrichment claim, but allowing the bulk of the aiding-and-abetting allegations to survive.
Expert Analysis
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Executive Orders That Could Affect Financial Services In 2025
The incoming Trump administration is likely to quickly revive or update a number of prior executive orders, and possibly issue new ones, that could affect financial services by emphasizing market discipline rather than regulatory initiatives to drive change in the industry, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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'Minimal Participant' Bar Is Tough To Clear For Whistleblowers
Under the U.S. Department of Justice’s corporate whistleblower pilot program, would-be whistleblowers will find it tough to show that they only minimally participated in criminal misconduct while still providing material information, but sentencing precedent shows how they might prove their eligibility for an award, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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2024 IPO Market Trends, And What To Expect Next Year
The initial public offering market returned to historically typical levels on a deal count basis in 2024 but continued to lag based on proceeds raised due to a larger number of smaller IPOs this year, and signs point to continued ongoing momentum in the next year, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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A Look At SEC, CFTC's Record Year For Whistleblower Awards
Another banner year shows that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission have developed the gold standard for whistleblower award programs, but a CFTC funding crisis threatens to derail that program's success, say Andrew Feller and Geoff Schweller at Kohn Kohn.
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What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025
The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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Expect Continuity In 2025 Anti-Money Laundering Policy
The past year has seen a range of anti-money laundering actions from federal financial regulators, and notwithstanding the imminent change from the Biden administration to the Trump administration, continuity may be more prevalent than change in the AML compliance space in 2025, say attorneys at White & Case.
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Alpine Ruling Previews Challenges To FINRA Authority
While the D.C. Circuit's holding that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority can't expel member firm Alpine prior to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission review was relatively narrow, it foreshadows possibly broader constitutional challenges to FINRA's enforcement and other nongovernmental disciplinary programs, say attorneys at Stradley Ronon.
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Series
Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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5th Circ. Crypto Ruling Shows Limits On OFAC Authority
The Fifth Circuit's recent decision that immutable smart contracts on the Tornado Cash crypto-transaction software protocol are not "property" subject to Office of Foreign Assets Control jurisdiction may signal that courts can construe OFAC's authority more restrictively after Loper Bright, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Preparing For The New Restrictions On Investment Into China
In light of a new regulatory program governing U.S. investments in China-related technology companies of national security concern, investors should keep several considerations in mind, including the rules' effect on existing and new investments, compliance hurdles, and penalties for noncompliance ahead of the rules' January implementation, say attorneys at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
Congress Should Expand Investment Options For 403(b)s
Lawmakers should pass pending legislation to give 403(b) plan participants access to collective investment trusts, leveling the playing field for public sector retirement investors by giving them an investment option their private sector counterparts have had for decades, says Jason Levy at Great Gray Trust Company.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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SEC Custody Rule Creates Crypto Compliance Conundrum
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's application of the custody rule may be a good faith attempt to enhance consumer protections for client assets, it doesn't appreciate the unique characteristics of crypto-assets, forcing advisers to choose between pursuing their clients' objectives and complying with the rule, say attorneys at Willkie.