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May 06, 2025
SDNY Taps Sullivan & Cromwell Atty To Lead Criminal Division
A former Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner has been selected to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's criminal division, according to an announcement made Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
SEC Panel Says Easier Trading Would Rev Up 'Reg A'
A small business-focused committee advising the Securities and Exchange Commission expressed renewed support on Tuesday for easing secondary trading in connection with Regulation A, hoping to broaden the appeal of this lightly used alternative to an initial public offering.
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May 06, 2025
蜜桃视频 Abandons Enforcement Of Buy Now, Pay Later Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Tuesday that it will not prioritize enforcement actions taken on buy now, pay later products, adding to the list of positions the agency is reviewing or rolling back under the organization's new leadership.
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May 06, 2025
Treasury Bans Burmese Militia Group From US Business Deals
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Burmese militia group the Karen National Army, its leader Saw Chit Thu and his sons Saw Htoo Eh Moo and Saw Chit Chit, banning them from doing business with any American entity or individuals.
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May 06, 2025
State Officials Say 蜜桃视频 Is Holding Up $4.2M Redress Checks
Officials from a dozen states have accused the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of ghosting them on a $4.2 million redress plan for former students of a shuttered sales-training firm, saying the agency has not cut any checks and is not answering them.
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May 06, 2025
A&O Shearman Atty To Lead Baker McKenzie Fintech Team
Baker McKenzie announced Tuesday it had tapped an Allen Overy Shearman Sterling attorney, one of two lawyers it was bringing aboard from the London-based firm, to serve as the new chair of its North American fintech and payments practice.
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May 06, 2025
SafeMoon CEO Tells Jury Founder To Blame For Investor Fib
Counsel for a U.S. Army veteran in Utah who served as CEO of SafeMoon told a Brooklyn, New York, federal jury Tuesday that he did not conspire to loot the crypto company's assets, implying its fugitive founder is to blame for a key misrepresentation.
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May 06, 2025
Senate Panel Advances Bowman For Fed Supervision Chief
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday endorsed President Donald Trump's selection of Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman to be the top bank regulatory official at the central bank, advancing her as part of his latest slate of financial nominees.
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May 05, 2025
Long Island Judge Installed As Interim EDNY US Atty
Long Island state court Judge Joseph Nocella Jr. was sworn in Monday as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a post he will hold for 120 days, or until the U.S. Senate confirms his nomination by President Donald Trump, the attorney's office announced.
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May 05, 2025
Debt Agency Agrees To $2.6M Deal To End Data Breach Claims
Debt collection agency and buyer NCB Management Services Inc. has agreed to pay $2.625 million to resolve consolidated proposed class action claims it failed to protect more than a million consumers whose personal information was compromised when it was hit with a companywide ransomware attack.
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May 05, 2025
CFTC Drops DC Circ. Appeal Over Kalshi's Election Contracts
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission moved Monday to voluntarily drop its D.C. Circuit challenge over trading platform Kalshi's election contracts, which allow users to trade on the outcome of U.S. elections.
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May 05, 2025
House GOP Eyes Expanded CFTC Oversight Of Crypto
House Republicans indicated Monday that they want the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to play a key role in overseeing digital asset markets, a draft proposal that followed weekend pushback from Democratic senators opposed to other crypto legislation targeting so-called stablecoins.
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May 05, 2025
Skadden-Led Crypto Platform EToro Eyes $480M IPO
Crypto-friendly trading platform eToro Group Ltd. on Monday launched plans for an initial public offering that could raise $480 million for the company and its shareholders, marking another sign that the IPO market's recent cold spell is beginning to thaw.
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May 05, 2025
Crypto Exec Says Feds Failed To Disclose Key Evidence
An indicted co-founder of crypto mixing service Samourai Wallet told a New York federal judge on Monday about prosecutors' alleged "shocking" failure to disclose evidence that calls into question the criminal charges brought against him and asked for a hearing into the alleged slip-up.
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May 05, 2025
Celsius Exec Decries 'Venom-Laced' Gov't Sentencing Memo
The founder of defunct cryptocurrency platform Celsius told a Manhattan federal judge that a sentencing memorandum in which prosecutors asked for a 20-year prison sentence was a "venom-laced" attempt to paint him as a "fiend" and ignore his prior law-abiding business ventures and status as a Soviet Jewish refugee.
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May 05, 2025
Crypto Miner Objects To Celsius Sanctions Try In Ch. 11 Case
Crypto mining company Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to throw out an attempt by Celsius Network to impose sanctions on Mawson in the company's involuntary Chapter 11 case, saying its failed bid to extend an automatic stay to its subsidiaries was performed in good faith.
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May 05, 2025
Colo. Pastor Claims No Ill Intent In Alleged Crypto Scheme
A Colorado pastor accused of inducing $3.4 million in investments into a worthless cryptocurrency and pocketing more than a third of those investor funds told a state court Monday that the project didn't go as planned, but he and his wife had "no intent to evade the law."
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May 05, 2025
High Court Won't Consider Reviving $13M Patent Verdict
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not review a question of vicarious liability prompted by the Federal Circuit erasing聽CloudofChange LLC's $13 million infringement trial win over NCR Corp.聽
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May 02, 2025
Dems Urge Fed To Rethink $35B Capital One-Discover Deal
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., have formally petitioned the Federal Reserve to pause and revisit its approval of Capital One's $35 billion acquisition聽of Discover, saying the central bank's analysis of the transaction had glaring gaps that make its conclusion legally unsustainable.
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May 02, 2025
Gores Group's Latest SPAC Leads 3 IPOs Totaling $792M
Gores Holdings X Inc., the latest of several special purpose acquisition companies formed by private equity firm The Gores Group, began trading Friday after pricing an upsized $312 million IPO, the largest of three new SPAC listings totaling $792 million.
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May 02, 2025
Judge Tosses Claims Uphold Misled Users Of Crypto Product
Uphold HQ Inc. beat a suit from users Friday when a New York federal judge ruled the digital money platform didn't mislead users about the safety of a now-defunct partner's crypto interest product its platform once supported.
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May 02, 2025
With Lowell's New Firm, San Juan Bank Appeals NY Fed Loss
Abbe Lowell聽鈥 the high-profile litigator who on Friday announced he will launch a boutique firm aiming to aid with "politicized investigations" after exiting the partnership of Winston & Strawn LLP聽鈥 will help handle a Puerto Rico bank's appeal of an order affirming the closure of its Federal Reserve master account by federal regulators.
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May 02, 2025
More Crypto Easing For Banks Is 'Critical,' Trade Groups Say
A coalition of Wall Street trade groups urged the executive branch to continue removing "barriers" limiting financial institutions from engaging with digital assets in a joint letter calling for uniform risk-management expectations over processes that require firms to clear their crypto activities with banking regulators ahead of time.
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May 02, 2025
Money Laundering, Tax Charges Nixed Vs. Crypto Operator
An Indiana federal judge dismissed the U.S. government's cases against a man accused of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, laundering proceeds through cryptocurrency transactions and failing to file tax returns after finding his business was not subject to registration requirements, as the government had maintained.
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May 02, 2025
Frank Execs Trade Blame In Dueling Bids For New Trial
Frank founder Charlie Javice and former executive Olivier Amar each requested new trials on charges alleging they tricked JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the student aid assistance startup for $175 million, with Javice asserting that her co-defendant acted as a second prosecutor and Amar saying he was unfairly lumped into what the government called a criminal scheme.
Expert Analysis
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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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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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How Crypto Firms Should Approach Patchwork Of State Laws
The Money Transmission Modernization Act was designed to create uniformity across state digital regulations, but the reality remains far from consistent 鈥 as demonstrated by the patchwork of laws in states like Texas, Vermont, New York and California 鈥 so as state legislatures convene in the coming weeks, crypto firms should watch closely for developments that could shape the regulatory landscape, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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The Current And Future State Of Bank-Fintech Partnerships
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Donald Trump seems likely to cultivate an environment friendlier to the financial services industry, bank-fintech partnerships should stay devoted to proactive compliance and be ready to adapt to regulatory shifts that may intensify scrutiny from enforcers, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.
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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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Series
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 鈥 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鈥檚 authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Short-Term Predictions For The 蜜桃视频's Fate Under Trump
Though the Trump administration is unlikely to succeed in abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, new leadership will likely moderate enforcement, possibly prompting state attorneys general to step up supervision, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
鈥淣o comment鈥 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.
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A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter
Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let 鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧媠tand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.