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Asset Management

  • March 25, 2025

    GOP-Led House Committee Mulls Bills To Ease Capital Raising

    The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Tuesday debated bills that would ease rules governing private and public securities offerings, marking Congress' latest push to deregulate capital markets under President Donald Trump's second term.

  • March 25, 2025

    Insurance Mogul Seeks To Overturn $122M Contempt Order

    A convicted billionaire embroiled in lawsuits over the demise of his insurance empire wants out of a nine-figure contempt order, telling the North Carolina Court of Appeals that neither he nor his company has the ability to pay more than $122 million to purge the contempt.

  • March 25, 2025

    FINRA President Hints At Offloading Arbitration Oversight

    The president of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Tuesday that he's considering whether another entity should take up the brokerage regulator's arbitration oversight, questioning whether it's an appropriate function for FINRA to continue running.

  • March 25, 2025

    Hershey Escapes Ex-Production Worker's Leave Bias Suit

    Hershey defeated a former production operator's lawsuit claiming he was fired for taking time off to assist his wife with fertility treatments, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, saying there was nothing wrong with an internal investigation that found he was misusing the leave he'd been given.

  • March 25, 2025

    McGuireWoods-Led Falfurrias Wraps $1.35B PE Fund

    McGuireWoods LLP-advised private equity shop Falfurrias Management Partners on Tuesday revealed that it closed its sixth middle-market private equity fund with $1.35 billion in investor commitments.

  • March 24, 2025

    Google Pares Back Investors' Suit Over Antitrust Probe

    A California federal judge Monday allowed investors to move forward with a securities fraud claim against Google, its CEO Sundar Pichai and parent company Alphabet Inc. over an allegedly false statement to Congress in 2020 about the fairness of ad auctions, but tossed the rest of the suit for good.

  • March 24, 2025

    Wells Fargo Loses Bid To Toss Suit Over $300M Ponzi Scheme

    A Florida federal judge on Monday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to deny Wells Fargo's bid to toss two retirees' putative class action accusing the bank of aiding and abetting a $300 million Ponzi scheme that deceived more than 1,000 investors, mostly elderly investors.

  • March 24, 2025

    Live Nation Inks $20M Deal Over Swift Tour-Tied Investor Suit

    Investors suing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. have asked a California federal judge to approve a $20 million deal ending claims that the company made misleading statements about its operations when news of alleged anticompetitive practices with Ticketmaster caused stock prices to drop following the tickets sales debacle for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour.

  • March 24, 2025

    FINRA Fines Pa. Broker-Dealer $1M Over Muni Bond Sales

    A Pittsburgh-based brokerage has agreed to penalties and disgorgement totaling over $1 million to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims it got undue order priority for certain new municipal bond orders by failing to mention those orders were for its own dealer account.

  • March 24, 2025

    Skadden, Latham Lead Crypto Platform EToro's IPO Filing

    Crypto-friendly trading platform eToro Group Ltd. on Monday publicly filed its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering, represented by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and underwriters' counsel Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • March 24, 2025

    Mass. Wants Info On Robinhood's March Madness Contracts

    Massachusetts' secretary of state has issued a subpoena to Robinhood Markets Inc. related to the trading platform's sporting event contracts tied to this year's March Madness tournaments, officials said Monday.

  • March 24, 2025

    Kirkland-Led Pike Street Clinches $199M Continuation Fund

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP-led private equity shop Pike Street Capital LLC said on Monday that it closed its latest single-asset continuation vehicle after securing $199 million from investors.

  • March 24, 2025

    Ga. Clinic Hit With Retaliation, Confidentiality Allegations

    A former employee of a Georgia sexual assault survivors' clinic filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the organization Friday claiming that she was forced out of her position after refusing to help cover up allegations that the clinic was violating victim confidentiality laws.

  • March 24, 2025

    SEC, FINRA Enforcement Heads Say Crypto Still A Focus

    Heads of enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority indicated Monday the agencies are keeping their eyes on cryptocurrency, even as the former has backed off of various cases and investigations involving crypto.

  • March 24, 2025

    SmartStop REIT Plans $864M IPO Amid US-Canada Trade Row

    SmartStop Self Storage REIT Inc., a real estate investment trust managing U.S. and Canadian properties, unveiled plans on Monday for an estimated $864 million initial public offering amid trade disputes rippling across North America, represented by Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and underwriters' counsel Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • March 21, 2025

    Only FDIC Can Sue Over Signature Bank Collapse, Judge Says

    A New York federal judge on Friday tossed a shareholder lawsuit over alleged misstatements about Signature Bank's health ahead of its 2023 collapse, saying shareholders lacked standing to sue in light of the FDIC being a receiver of both the failed bank's assets and rights of the bank's stockholders.

  • March 21, 2025

    Latham-Led Online Ticket Giant StubHub Files IPO

    Private equity- and venture-backed online ticket reseller StubHub Holdings Inc. on Friday filed its long-awaited initial public offering plans, represented by Latham & Waktins LLP and underwriters counsel Cooley LLP.

  • March 21, 2025

    SEC Guidance Moves Needle In Favor Of Private Fundraising

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent guidance on how accredited investors can self-certify when participating in broadly publicized private placements simplifies legal compliance for issuers, according to attorneys, though the jury is still out on whether market participants will embrace the new framework.

  • March 21, 2025

    Ex-Jefferies Employee Says Age Bias Led To Termination

    Investment bank Jefferies LLC has been sued by a former assistant vice president who alleged he was fired under the pretext of working from home too much and that he was actually a victim of age discrimination.

  • March 21, 2025

    Chicago Feds Charge 7 Over Alleged $214M Pump-And-Dump

    Federal prosecutors on Friday charged seven foreign nationals over a "pump and dump" scheme in which they allegedly posed as U.S.-based investment advisers online and artificially raised the stock price of a company purporting to provide educational services in China, raking in more than $200 million when they sold their shares.

  • March 21, 2025

    Israel-Focused SPAC Raises $125M To Pursue Merger

    Shares of Gesher Acquisition Corp. II began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday after the blank-check company detailed plans to raise $125 million in its initial public offering with the goal of merging with an Israeli company.

  • March 21, 2025

    Credit Unions Denied Class Cert. In NY Rate Cut Suit

    A trio of Western New York credit unions can't get certification for a class of state court consumer debt judgment holders after a lengthy "abusive and tactical" delay in filing their certification bid in a suit over a state law aimed at decreasing the default interest rate for such judgments, a Manhattan federal judge found.

  • March 20, 2025

    OCC Says It Will Stop Examining Banks For Reputation Risk

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Thursday that it will no longer examine banks for reputation risk, adopting a policy change that some Republican lawmakers want to require for all federal banking regulators to help curb so-called debanking.

  • March 20, 2025

    Iowa Adviser To Pay $15M Over SEC Conflict Claims

    An Iowa-based adviser has been ordered to pay $15 million over claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it invested client assets in funds that benefited an affiliated broker-dealer instead of lower-cost alternatives, without disclosing its conflicts of interest.

  • March 20, 2025

    Fla. Fund Sued In Del. After Denying Investor Redemptions

    Investors in Florida-based limited partnership P and J Titan Fund LP sued the fund, its general partner, sole director and investment manager in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Tuesday, alleging improper redemption refusals and diversions of funds.

Expert Analysis

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Applying High Court's Domestic Corruption Rulings To FCPA

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the domestic corruption statutes in three decisions over the past year and a half, it’s worth evaluating whether these rulings may have an impact on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, and if attorneys can use the court’s reasoning in international bribery cases, says James Koukios at MoFo.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Series

    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    In a relatively light few months for banking legal updates in New York, the state Department of Financial Services previewed its views on banking sector artificial intelligence use via insurer guidance, and an anti-money laundering enforcement action underscored the importance of international monitoring processes, say Eric McLaughlin and Dana Bayersdorfer at Davis Polk.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Del. Dispatch: Cautionary Tales Of 2 Earnout Effort Breaches

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery's tendency to interpret earnout provisions precisely as written, highlighted in two September rulings that found buyers breached their shareholder obligations when they failed to make reasonable efforts to hit certain product development milestones, demonstrates the paramount importance of precisely wording these agreements, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

  • Takeaways From TOTSA Settlement And Critical CFTC Dissent

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    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's recent settlement with TOTSA highlights the agency's commitment to enforcing market integrity and deterring manipulative practices, while Commissioner Caroline Pham's dissent to the settlement spotlights the need for transparency and consistency in enforcement actions, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Payward And The Secondary Crypto Transaction Confusion

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    Following orders in cases against Coinbase and Binance, the recent California federal court ruling in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Payward raises even more questions about regulation of secondary transactions involving crypto-assets, as it tries to sidestep fundamental flaws in the SEC's legal theories, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Key Takeaways From DOJ's New Corp. Compliance Guidance

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s updated guidance to federal prosecutors on evaluating corporate compliance programs addresses how entities manage new technology-related risks and expands on preexisting policies, providing key insights for companies about increasing regulatory expectations, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Basel Endgame Rules: A Change Is Coming

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    The Federal Reserve Board's recently announced recalibration of the Basel endgame proposal begins a critical chapter in the evolution of not only the safety and soundness of U.S. banks, but also of banks' abilities to lend and support American businesses and consumers, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

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