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Capital Markets

  • April 30, 2025

    Extradited Fund Manager Admits To $3.4M Fraud Scheme

    The former manager of a Connecticut investment fund, who spent almost a year in custody in South America, pled guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in a scheme prosecutors say swindled $3.4 million from investors who thought he was running a conservative hedge fund with consistent returns.

  • April 29, 2025

    GOP Plan To Shutter Audit Watchdog Could Strain SEC

    Congressional Republicans are renewing the push to get rid of a financial regulator that conservatives have complained is costly and lacks proper oversight, but some former staffers at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board wonder whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has the manpower or expertise to take over the board's duties.

  • April 29, 2025

    SEC Sues Over Cannabis Co. Stock Manipulation Scheme

    A trio of Arizona men face U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations they manipulated trading prices for a purported cannabis industry penny stock issuer, generating proceeds of nearly $21 million as they worked to pump up its shares.

  • April 29, 2025

    SEC Abandons Investigation Into PayPal's Dollar Stablecoin

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its investigation into PayPal's dollar-pegged stablecoin "without enforcement action," PayPal said in a disclosure filed Tuesday, the latest cryptocurrency probe abandoned by the agency under President Donald Trump's administration.

  • April 29, 2025

    Adviser Renews Bid To Toss SEC Suit Over Liquidity Rule

    Pinnacle Advisors LLC has again urged a New York federal judge to toss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit accusing the wealth management firm of exceeding its allowed allotment of illiquid investments, standing by its arguments that the so-called liquidity rule was wrongly promulgated.

  • April 29, 2025

    Kim Kardashian, Celebs Challenge Crypto Buyers' Cert. Bid

    The co-founder of the EthereumMax crypto token and celebrities who allegedly promoted the offering told a California federal judge that a group of spurned buyers should not be able to certify their class action since they have not provided a way to determine how many transactions would fall in each category.

  • April 29, 2025

    Perkins Coie Leads 2 SPAC Listings Raising $300M Combined

    Two special-purpose acquisition companies, under similar leadership teams and represented by Perkins Coie LLP, began trading Tuesday after pricing initial public offerings that raised a combined $300 million. 

  • April 29, 2025

    2 Insurance Firms Join Frozen IPO Pipeline Seeking $440M

    Two insurance companies joined the roster of candidates for initial public offerings on Tuesday by launching plans to raise about $440 million combined under guidance from six law firms, potentially unlocking a stalled pipeline.

  • April 29, 2025

    Celsius Founder Should Get 20 Years For Fraud, Feds Say

    Prosecutors have urged a federal judge in Manhattan to sentence the founder of defunct cryptocurrency platform Celsius to 20 years in prison, arguing he ran a "yearslong campaign of lies and self-dealing" that caused billions of dollars in losses to thousands of customers.

  • April 29, 2025

    Schulte Roth Adds Finance Pro From Linklaters In NY

    Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP announced Monday that it had brought a finance partner from Linklaters to its New York office, calling the hire "a significant step forward in the firm's ongoing strategy to expand its capabilities on both the arranger and manager sides" of the collateralized loan obligations market.

  • April 28, 2025

    NJ Can't Take Action Over Kalshi's Sports Contracts, For Now

    A New Jersey federal judge on Monday barred the state's gambling regulators from taking action over Kalshi's sports event contracts for the time being, after he found that the contracts appear to fall within the "exclusive jurisdiction" of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

  • April 28, 2025

    SEC Defends Witholding Info On Text Message Sweeps

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pushed back Monday against the American Securities Association's bid for spreadsheets related to the regulator's enforcement sweep of so-called off-channel communications, telling a Florida federal judge that its spreadsheet withholdings under the Freedom of Information Act are fully legal.

  • April 28, 2025

    Tax Services Provider Andersen Files Confidential IPO Plans

    Tax and legal services provider Andersen Group Inc. said Monday it confidentially filed for an initial public offering, marking a first step toward going public amid market volatility that has largely frozen IPOs in recent weeks.

  • April 28, 2025

    Wells Fargo Says Atty Is To Blame For SEC's EB-5 Fraud Suit

    An immigration attorney claiming a Wells Fargo adviser led her astray has no one to blame but herself for being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for EB-5 investment fraud, the company told a Nevada federal court.

  • April 28, 2025

    Nasdaq Presses SEC To Enact Clearer Digital Asset Rules

    Nasdaq is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and its sister agency that regulates derivatives to adopt clearer rules governing digital assets, calling for a system that classifies such products into four categories.

  • April 28, 2025

    Defense-Focused SPAC Kochav Files $220M IPO

    Defense- and aerospace-focused special purpose acquisition company Kochav Defense Acquisition has revealed plans to raise up to $220 million in an initial public offering, looking to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol KCHVU.

  • April 28, 2025

    Chancery Tosses Palantir Suit Targeting Direct Sale Gains

    Observing that corporate insiders can't be penalized for profiting from public information, a Delaware vice chancellor has thrown out a derivative suit filed by Palantir Technologies stockholders accusing the private company's directors and officers of unfairly profiting from direct-to-market stock sales without taking the company public.

  • April 25, 2025

    FINRA Urges Justices To Reject Constitutional Challenge

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Friday called on the U.S. Supreme Court to turn away a case claiming that the regulator's in-house disciplinary process is unconstitutional, saying that there is no circuit split at issue and that the petition is "plagued with vehicle problems."

  • April 25, 2025

    Judge Orders Atlas Co. To Arbitrate $3.1M Fraud Suit

    A Colorado federal judge on Thursday ordered an Australian online atlas startup to arbitrate its $3.14 million dispute with a consultant it hired for guidance while looking to gain access to U.S. capital markets, ruling that an arbitration clause in the underlying contract was applicable despite the company's fraud allegations.

  • April 25, 2025

    Judge Keeps Boeing Fraud Case In Chicago

    An Illinois federal judge said Friday that equity funds accusing Boeing of defrauding investors by downplaying the 737 Max jets' safety flaws after a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 must continue to litigate their claims in Chicago instead of having them heard in Virginia.

  • April 25, 2025

    Migration Agency Faces $100M EB-5 Investor Fraud Suit

    A group of Chinese investors have filed a proposed class action accusing a Washington-based migration agency and a real estate investment group manager of fraudulently raising $100 million from overseas investors pursuing permanent U.S. residence via the EB-5 program with property that has now been auctioned off.

  • April 25, 2025

    Tesla, Allies Urge Reversal Of Musk's $56B Pay Veto

    Pointing to solid Tesla stockholder approval of Elon Musk's $56 billion, multiyear compensation plan, the Chamber of Commerce's national office has urged Delaware's Supreme Court to reverse a Chancery Court strikedown of the plan and reconsider a $345 million winning-side class attorney fee.

  • April 25, 2025

    SPAC Deals Are Buzzing Again Despite Tariff Turmoil

    Amid heavy volatility that has largely frozen traditional initial public offerings, deal teams are launching more special purpose acquisition companies, an alternative market to typical IPOs that so far has shown few ill effects from tariff-related uncertainty.

  • April 25, 2025

    Vinco Ventures Chair Pleads Guilty To Lying To Investors

    The former executive chairman of Vinco Ventures' board of directors pled guilty Friday to lying to investors about the digital media and technology company's operations to artificially inflate its stock price.

  • April 25, 2025

    SPAC Raises $220M As It Eyes Partners In 'Disruptive' Sectors

    Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday as it pursues a merger with a company operating in "disruptive growth industries" in North America or Europe, which it said could include "innovative, technology-enabled" businesses.

Expert Analysis

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    NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets

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    A recent bill in the U.S. House proposing to regulate nonfungible tokens as digital assets would leave key concepts undefined until the U.S. comptroller general completes an after-the-fact study of NFTs, showing it needs more work before it is comprehensive enough to meaningfully protect the market, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

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    Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • What To Expect In Crypto Banking After SEC Nixed Guidance

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    With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently rescinding its controversial cryptocurrency accounting guidance, the industry's focus will turn to the potentially significant hurdle to crypto banking posed by the federal banking regulators, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty

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    Although recently released FAQs clarify many specific points of the 2023 expansion to the Investment Company Act's fund names rule, important questions remain about how U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff will interpret other key terms when the end-of-year compliance date arrives, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks

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    If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.

  • 5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far

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    The early weeks of the Trump administration have set the stage for a significant transformation in U.S. digital asset policy by prioritizing regulatory clarity, innovation and a shift away from enforcement-heavy tactics, but many of these changes will require congressional support and progress may be gradual, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Comparing 2 Pending Bills To Regulate Stablecoins

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    Alexandra Steinberg Barrage at Troutman analyzes the key similarities and differences between two payment stablecoin proposals currently pending in Congress — the STABLE and GENIUS acts — as both chambers are forming a working group to deliver a clear regulatory framework for digital assets and bipartisan agreement appears within reach.

  • Series

    Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.

  • Inside The Uncertainty Surrounding Ƶ's Overdraft Rule

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overhaul of overdraft fee regulation hangs in limbo as the industry watches to see whether new leadership will repeal the rule, allow it to stay in place, or wait for congressional action or the courts to drive its demise, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • How Private Securities Suits Complement SEC Enforcement

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    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement is vital to the healthy functioning of markets, but government enforcement alone is not enough to ensure meaningful monetary recoveries for investor losses due to securities law violations, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz.

  • The Case For Compliance During The Trump Administration

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    Given the Trump administration’s shifting white collar enforcement priorities, C-suite executives may have the natural instinct to pare back compliance initiatives, but there are several good reasons for companies to at least stay the course on their compliance programs, if not enhance them, say attorneys at Riley Safer.

  • Expect To Feel Aftershocks Of Chopra's Ƶ Shake-Up

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    Publications released by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau personnel in the last days of the Biden administration outline former Director Rohit Chopra's long-term vision for aggressive state-level enforcement of federal consumer financial laws, opening the doors for states to launch investigations and pursue actions, say attorneys at Hudson Cook.

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