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May 27, 2025
EV-Maker Polestar Faces Investor Suit Over Financial Reports
Swedish electrical vehicle company Polestar has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing it of misleading investors by failing to maintain proper internal controls, which caused it to misreport liabilities and assets on its balance sheets for several quarters.
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May 27, 2025
Bank Groups Agree To Pause Of Fed Stress Test Suit
Major banking trade groups and the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System came together to ask an Ohio federal judge to pause their dispute over the board's big bank stress test practices, telling the court that the trade groups' concerns are being addressed.
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May 27, 2025
'I Need To Be Careful': Judge Wades Into Musk-Firm Conflict
A New York federal judge questioned his authority to weigh in on Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's hiring decisions after it sought permission to employ a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney who Elon Musk claims could disadvantage him in a shareholder lawsuit, asking the firm and Musk to brief him on what may be an issue of first impression.
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May 27, 2025
King & Spalding Recruits NY Kirkland Capital Markets Partner
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has brought on a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner for its corporate practice group in New York.
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May 27, 2025
High Court Passes On Axed $563M BMO Harris Ponzi Verdict
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the Eighth Circuit's decision to strike down a $563 million jury verdict against BMO Harris NA over claims that a bank it acquired had aided and abetted Thomas J. Petters' multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
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May 23, 2025
Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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May 23, 2025
NY Judge Axes $110M Mango Markets Trader's Fraud Verdict
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday granted a crypto trader's request to overturn a conviction for defrauding platform Mango Markets out of roughly $110 million, finding that prosecutors didn't link his conduct to New York and failed to show he duped the platform.
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May 23, 2025
Cooley Beats Malpractice Claim In NJ Investor Suit, For Now
A New Jersey federal judge on Friday trimmed a securities fraud lawsuit alleging Cooley LLP and its attorneys deliberately hid from an investor fraud claims against a startup's CEO, dismissing legal malpractice allegations against Cooley and four attorneys, but keeping alive other claims and letting the plaintiff amend his suit.
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May 23, 2025
SEC Cracks Door For Retail Entry Into Private Funds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is exploring increasing retail access to private funds, marking one of several pivotal shifts the watchdog is considering that would widen public exposure to the vast but less regulated world of private markets.
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May 23, 2025
2nd Circ. Rejects Novel Short-Swing Trading Theory
Controlling shareholders who sell stock at a time when their company is conducting a share repurchase program cannot be sued to recoup so-called short-swing profits, the Second Circuit said in rejecting a novel legal theory Friday.
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May 23, 2025
Banking Groups Want SEC To Pull Cyber Disclosure Mandates
A group of banking trade associations has called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to rescind a Biden-era mandate requiring public companies to disclose certain cybersecurity incidents, arguing it increases companies' risk when they fall victim to cyberattacks.
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May 23, 2025
Coinbase Investor Sues Over Hack Fallout, UK Fine
A Coinbase stockholder brought a proposed class action against the crypto exchange, claiming she and other investors felt the fallout after the firm suffered a headline-grabbing data breach and an earlier run-in with a U.K. regulator.
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May 23, 2025
9th Circ. Judges Grapple With Funko Investors' Fraud Claims
Ninth Circuit panelists said Friday they were "struggling" with an appeal from a group of investors in a proposed class securities fraud case against toymaker Funko, expressing skepticism that the shareholders had shown corporate leadership knowingly misrepresented the status of a software update that flopped.
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May 23, 2025
Banking Veteran Betsy Cohen's Latest SPAC Targets Fintech
Financial services dealmaker Betsy Cohen is back with another SPAC, filing plans Friday for a $220 million initial public offering for Cohen Circle Acquisition Corp. II, which aims to pursue mergers in fintech and adjacent sectors.
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May 23, 2025
Ex-Citadel Securities GC Returns To FINRA As Public Governor
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has named to its board of governors the former general counsel of Citadel Securities who previously spent 16 years at FINRA.
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May 22, 2025
SEC Drops Dealer Suits In 'Astonishing' Move, Crenshaw Says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday dropped several suits targeting businesses for failing to register as securities "dealers" with the agency as required by law, a move that the SEC's sole Democratic commissioner called "astonishing."
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May 22, 2025
Lottery.com Execs Cop To Securities Fraud In SPAC Case
Two former Lottery.com executives pled guilty Thursday to their role in a scheme to fraudulently inflate reported revenues in a 2021 take-public deal involving the mobile and online lottery gaming platform company.
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May 22, 2025
EV Carmaker Lucid Gets Inflated Biz Suit Trimmed, Again
A California federal judge on Thursday again trimmed a proposed investor class action that alleges electric carmaker Lucid made misleading production forecasts, finding that the latest complaint still doesn't adequately allege the defendants knew some of the challenged statements were false when they were issued.
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May 22, 2025
Chegg Investors Get Final OK In $55M Student Cheating Deal
A California federal judge on Wednesday gave his blessing to a $55 million settlement resolving investor claims that educational technology company Chegg Inc. falsely attributed its "dramatic growth" during the COVID-19 pandemic to its sustainable business model, rather than to students using the platform to cheat.
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May 22, 2025
Proxy Proposal Omissions Rose Post-SEC Bulletin, Study Finds
There was a sharp drop in the total number of shareholder proxy proposals submitted this year and a rise in the number of submitted proposals that were omitted from corporate ballots following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rescission of past guidance, ISS Corporate Solutions Inc. said Thursday.
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May 22, 2025
Gov't Presses High Court To Hear Activist Investor Suit
The federal government Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case accusing a series of closed-end funds of shutting an activist investor out of its voting rights, arguing that the investor's lawsuit threatens to have an "unpredictable impact" on the private fund industry.
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May 22, 2025
Motorola Eyes $4.5B Wireless Radio Deal, And Other Rumors
Motorola eyes a $4.5 billion purchase of a wireless radio maker, Providence Equity buys a live event company at a reported $1 billion value and Intel's sale of a networking unit could attract billions. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal-related rumors from the past week.
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May 22, 2025
Oyster Enterprises II SPAC Prices $220M IPO
Special purpose acquisition company Oyster Enterprises II Acquisition Corp. began trading publicly on Thursday following its $220 million initial public offering.
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May 22, 2025
Federal Gov't Backs States' BlackRock Coal Investments Suit
The federal government on Thursday threw its support behind a case from Texas and several other states that accuses investment groups including BlackRock Inc. of using their energy holdings to drive up coal prices under the guise of environmental concerns.
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May 22, 2025
Silvergate Estate To Chip In For $37.5M Investor Settlement
Silvergate Capital and investors suing over its collapse have reached a $37.5 million deal with a "rare" source of partial funding to resolve claims that the failed crypto-focused bank misrepresented its safeguards against onboarding customers like FTX, the fraud-ridden crypto exchange that made up roughly a sixth of the bank's deposit base.
Expert Analysis
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Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.
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30 Years Later: How PSLRA Has Improved Securities Litigation
In the 30 years since the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's passage, the statute has achieved its purpose of shifting securities class actions to investors most capable of monitoring the litigation, selecting competent counsel at competitive rates and maximizing recoveries for the investor classes they represent, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz.
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Terraform Case May Be Bellwether For Crypto Enforcement
The prosecution of crypto company Terraform Labs and its CEO, Do Kwon, offers a unique test of the line between lawful and unlawful conduct in digital transactions, and the Trump administration’s posture toward the case will provide clues about its cryptocurrency enforcement agenda in the years to come, say attorneys at Brooks Pierce.
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Texas Banking Dept. Memo Demystifies Crypto Classifications
A recent memorandum from the Texas Department of Banking provides clarity with respect to the classification of both stablecoins and nonstablecoin virtual currencies under the state's Money Services Modernization Act, flagging for firms that stablecoins may be scrutinized more closely as money transmission, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
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What Remedies Under New Admin's SEC Could Look Like
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to substantially narrow the remedies it pursues over the next few years, driven by the mounting challenges it faces in court, as well as the views of its incoming chair and fellow Republican commissioners on injunctions, penalties and disgorgement, say attorneys at Milbank.
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Texas Fraud Case Shows Dangers Of Faulty Crypto Reporting
The recent sentencing of a man who failed to properly report capital gains from bitcoin sales is a reminder that special attention must be given to the IRS' reporting requirements in order to stay out of the government's crosshairs, says Saverio Romeo at Fox Rothschild.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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BlackRock Suit Highlights Antitrust Risks Of ESG
In Texas v. BlackRock, pending in Texas federal court, 13 state attorneys general are suing large institutional investors in the coal business, underscoring key reasons companies may want to alter their approach to developing and implementing policies related to environmental, social, and governance factors, especially if coordination with competitors is involved, say attorneys at Manatt.
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How Rising Secondary Private Markets Affect Tech Disputes
The rise of secondaries is a natural by-product of growing and evolving private markets and, as such, we can expect their growth will continue, signaling an increase in the use of secondaries in damages as well as litigation revolving around secondaries themselves, says Farooq Javed at The Brattle Group.
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Suggestions For CFTC Enforcement's New Leadership
The recent change in leadership at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission presents an opportunity to reflect on past practices and consider opportunities for improvement at the commission's Enforcement Division, including in observing precedent and providing greater enforcement transparency, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.
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Opinion
NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets
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
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.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
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.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“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.