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  • June 20, 2025

    MicroStrategy Brass Face Suit Over $5.9B Bitcoin Loss

    Executives and directors of bitcoin-focused software company MicroStrategy Inc. face a shareholder derivative complaint alleging they made over $31 million selling off company stock while its shares were artificially inflated by misrepresentations about the magnitude of upcoming changes to the company's accounting practices for its so-called bitcoin treasury.

  • June 20, 2025

    Many Foreign Firms Could Face Stricter Access To US Markets

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's reevaluation of the definition of a foreign private issuer could have far-reaching consequences, potentially tightening access to U.S. markets for companies based in China and beyond, lawyers say.

  • June 20, 2025

    Trump Inks Rollback Of Biden-Era OCC Bank Merger Rule

    President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation nullifying the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's Biden-era bank merger rule, clinching a Republican campaign to overturn what industry groups criticized as an overly restrictive and unclear framework for reviewing proposed transactions.

  • June 20, 2025

    8th Circ. Sends SEC's $12M Dealer Suit Back To District Court

    The Eighth Circuit on Friday granted a request from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to remand a $12 million unregistered dealer judgment the agency won against financial firm Carebourn Capital LP back to the district court, despite Carebourn's bid to keep the matter in the federal appeals court.

  • June 20, 2025

    Senate's ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ, PCAOB Cuts Hit Parliamentarian Roadblock

    The U.S. Senate parliamentarian has thrown cold water on the Senate Banking Committee's bids to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eliminate the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as part of the "One Big Beautiful" budget megabill, but the panel's top Republican is vowing to keep seeking further spending cuts.

  • June 20, 2025

    Apple Hit With Securities Suit Over IPhone AI Feature Delays

    An Apple investor hit the tech giant and its top brass with a proposed securities class action in California federal court Friday, alleging they duped investors into believing Apple would launch new artificial intelligence Siri features on the iPhone 16 and caused Apple stock to tumble after the rollout was delayed repeatedly.

  • June 20, 2025

    SEC Weighs Settlement After 1st Circ. Pulls $93M Win

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has entered settlement negotiations with Massachusetts-based financial firm Commonwealth Financial Network, two months after the First Circuit nixed the agency's $93 million win against the company, according to a court document filed Friday.

  • June 20, 2025

    SEC Axes 3 More Dealer Suits In Continued Policy Shift

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed three lawsuits accusing a hedge fund and two penny stock traders of operating as unregistered securities dealers, continuing the new Republican leadership's shift away from pursuing cases that defendants argued unlawfully expanded agency oversight.

  • June 20, 2025

    NJ Tech Co. Brass Face Suit Over NASA Partnership Claims

    Executives and directors of Quantum Computing Inc. have been hit with a shareholder's derivative lawsuit accusing them of misleading investors on the company's dealings with NASA, its revenues and its progress on building a chip foundry.

  • June 20, 2025

    4 ERISA Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2025

    The U.S. Department of Labor's challenge to a pair of injunctions blocking Biden-era regulations that broaden who qualifies as an investment advice fiduciary under federal benefits law tops the list of cases benefits attorneys will be watching in the latter half of the year.

  • June 18, 2025

    US Seizes $225M In Crypto Tied To 'Pig Butchering' Schemes

    Law enforcement on Wednesday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to help it return more than $225.3 million worth of stolen digital assets to victims of phony crypto investment schemes, including to a small Kansas bank that failed after its CEO got entangled in a so-called pig butchering scheme, as part of what the U.S. Department of Justice called its largest ever seizure connected with such scams.

  • June 18, 2025

    Dealmakers Eye More Crypto-Targeted SPAC Mergers

    More special purpose acquisition companies plan to seize upon the revival of cryptocurrencies under a second Trump administration and take cryptocurrency-related ventures public in the coming months, an attorney told a gathering of dealmakers on Wednesday.

  • June 18, 2025

    Google's $32B Wiz Bid Gets DOJ Scrutiny, And Other Rumors

    The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing Google’s $32 billion Wiz deal, Mitsubishi could pay $8 billion for Aethon Energy's assets, and hedge fund Millennium could fetch a $14 billion valuation with a minority stake sale. Here’s a breakdown of the notable deal rumors from the past week.

  • June 18, 2025

    Former Holland & Knight Partner Joins Husch Blackwell

    Husch Blackwell has announced that former Holland & Knight LLP partner Bruce Toppin has joined the Kansas City, Missouri-headquartered law firm as a partner in its financial services and capital markets industry group.

  • June 18, 2025

    AGs Tell 3rd Circ. To Close 'Loophole' In Kalshi Betting Case

    A bipartisan group of attorneys general co-led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, pressed the Third Circuit to prevent trading platform Kalshi's "broad preemptive coup," urging the appellate court to allow New Jersey to regulate the company.

  • June 18, 2025

    InnovAge IPO Investors Get Initial OK Of $27M Settlement

    A Colorado federal judge has preliminarily approved a $27 million settlement between InnovAge Holding Corp., its underwriters and a class of stockholders accusing the senior-health care company of making misleading statements in an initial public offering that later caused stock prices to tank after a government audit exposed the falsehoods.

  • June 18, 2025

    Squire Patton Adds Polsinelli Trio To New Private Credit Group

    Squire Patton Boggs has added a three-lawyer team from Polsinelli PC to its private credit and direct lending practice group.

  • June 17, 2025

    Protego Takes $200M Crypto Bank Suit To Wash. Court

    Protego Holdings Corp. has re-launched a lawsuit in Washington state court blaming a Texas investment firm for failing to carry out a $200 million investment pledge in its launch of a cryptocurrency bank, which never materialized because rare conditional approval from the U.S. government lapsed over financing concerns.

  • June 17, 2025

    Cancer Diagnostics Firm, Insurer Price 2 IPOs Totaling $902M

    Cancer-diagnostics test provider Caris Life Sciences Inc. and coastal-focused residential insurer Slide Insurance Holdings Inc. will begin trading Wednesday after pricing two initial public offerings that raised a combined $902 million, guided by five law firms.

  • June 17, 2025

    Senate Passes Stablecoin Legislation With Bipartisan Support

    The Senate's proposal to regulate stablecoins passed the chamber on Tuesday with support from both parties, sending it on to the House where lawmakers are still working on their own proposal.

  • June 17, 2025

    Crypto Co. Says Meme-Coin Creating Atty Can't Rep Theft Suit

    Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom Technologies has asked a New York federal judge to disqualify an attorney from representing a group of plaintiffs, including himself, in a suit he filed over the alleged theft of half-a-million dollars worth of a meme coin he created in honor of his pet dachshund.

  • June 17, 2025

    Utah Man Can't Escape SEC's Microcap Stock Scheme Suit

    A Utah bookkeeper can't escape U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations he served as a middleman in a penny stock pump-and-dump scheme because the SEC's complaint appropriately details its assertion that he was, at least, reckless, in connection with the matter, a federal judge has determined.

  • June 17, 2025

    Beverage Co.'s Rihanna Rum Claims Were Bunk, SEC Says

    A purported beverage company and its founder face Securities and Exchange Commission claims they defrauded would-be investors out of $3.6 million by misrepresenting how they aimed to use funds they raised and inaccurately suggesting the company was poised to collaborate with pop star Rihanna.

  • June 17, 2025

    Venezuela Oil Co. PDVSA Must Face $258M Default Ruling

    Spanish company Elecnor SA has achieved a green light from a New York state judge to pursue enforcement of a nearly $258 million default judgment against Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company over unpaid debt.

  • June 17, 2025

    Del. Justices Undo $200M Award In TransCanada Case

    Pointing in part to an earlier appellate ruling, Delaware's highest court on Tuesday reversed a Court of Chancery decision that ordered the former TransCanada Corp. to pay $199 million to former Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. shareholders allegedly shorted in a 2016 merger.

Expert Analysis

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    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 ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ'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 ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ 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.

  • Opinion

    Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice

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    A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.

  • In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege

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    Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.

  • What Banks Need To Know About Trump's Executive Orders

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    While the numerous executive orders and memos from the last few weeks don't touch on many of the issues the banking industry expected the Trump administration to address, banks still need to pay attention to the flurry of orders from strategic, compliance and operational perspectives, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • How SDNY US Atty Nom May Shape Enforcement Priorities

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    President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton, will likely shift the office’s enforcement priorities, from refining whistleblower policies to deemphasizing novel prosecutorial theories, say attorneys at Cohen & Gresser.

  • 4 Potential Effects Of 3rd Circ.'s Coinbase Ruling

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    The Third Circuit's recent landmark decision in Coinbase v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the SEC's refusal to engage in rulemaking to clarify its stance on crypto enforcement was "insufficiently reasoned" could have wide-ranging impacts, including on other cases, legislation and even the SEC's reputation itself, says Daniel Payne at Cole-Frieman.

  • Series

    Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.

  • Opinion

    Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay

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    Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

  • A Look At Collateralized Loan Obligations Post-Reform

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    The Financial Stability Board's recent report on global securitization reforms, analyzing resilience trends in the collateralized loan obligation market post-2008, suggests that, while risk retention rules have a limited impact on observable characteristics, other structural features play a significant role in ensuring risk alignment, says Kos Vavelidis at DLA Piper.

  • Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

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    Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

  • SEC Motion Response Could Reveal New Crypto Approach

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    Cumberland DRW recently filed to dismiss the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement action against it for the unlawful purchase and sale of digital asset securities, and the agency's response should unveil whether, and to what extent, the Trump administration will relax the federal government’s stance on digital asset regulation, say attorneys at O'Melveny.

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