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April 23, 2025
Feds Seek At Least 6½ Years For Mango Markets Trader
A cryptocurrency trader convicted on claims he took $110 million out of shuttered decentralized finance platform Mango Markets should spend at least six and a half years in prison, federal prosecutors have argued, while the DeFi protocol itself asked that he pay $47 million in restitution.
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April 23, 2025
Ind. Broker-Dealer Pays FINRA Fine To Settle L Bonds Claims
An Indiana-headquartered brokerage firm is the latest to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims related to its representatives' recommendations of certain risky alternative investments like bonds offered by the now-bankrupt company GWG Holdings Inc.
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April 23, 2025
CEOs Urge SEC To Ban Political Activists' Proxy Proposals
The Business Roundtable on Wednesday urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress to quickly reform the shareholder proposal process for public companies, including by banning activists' proposals relating to environmental, social and political issues, saying proxy statements have become "battlegrounds for political debates."
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April 23, 2025
Ex-SEC Counsel Joins Blockchain Co. Plume Network As GC
Plume Network, a blockchain project focused on real-world assets like gold, mineral interests and private credit funds, has hired a former senior special counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as its general counsel, the project announced Wednesday.
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April 23, 2025
Citron Research Founder Can't Escape SEC Fraud Suit
The founder of trading advice website Citron Research and his investment advisory firm cannot escape the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit alleging they raked in $20 million by manipulating trading prices, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the complaint adequately alleges fraud.
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April 23, 2025
FINRA Acts On Entrex Application After SEC Gets Complaint
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has approved Entrex Carbon Market Inc.'s requests for a name change and approval of stock splits, shareholders of the carbon offset trading platform have said, although they indicated they will proceed pursuing structural reforms at the self-regulating watchdog of brokers.
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April 23, 2025
Law Firm Fights Sanctions Bid In Mootness Fee Row
Attorneys at Monteverde & Associates PC urged an Illinois federal judge not to order certain sanctions against them in a challenge to so-called mootness fees paid to settle and dismiss allegedly baseless merger disclosure suits, saying more sanctions would be inconsistent with "well-established" pleading and sanctions standards.
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April 23, 2025
Del. Justices Mull Scope Of Jenzabar Founders' Control Feud
A Delaware Supreme Court justice on Wednesday pressed an attorney for a co-founder of higher education software venture Jenzabar Inc. on whether he had adopted a "rather expansive reading" for claims of continuing wrongs in an appeal from rulings tied to a divorcing couple's sprawling battles over control of the business.
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April 23, 2025
GoodRx Beats Investor Suit Over Kroger-Linked Biz
GoodRx Holdings Inc. has escaped a proposed shareholder class action alleging it concealed from investors the indispensability of its relationship with Kroger, according to an order signed by a California federal judge who said the suit does not show GoodRx knew Kroger had plans to renegotiate its contracts.
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April 23, 2025
Liberty TripAdvisor Sued In Del. For Docs On $435M Sale
A Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings Inc. stockholder sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Thursday for documents on the company's planned $435 million sale of its stake in online travel agency giant TripAdvisor, citing a purported lowball price for public shares and potential conflicts involving Liberty's controlling investor.
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April 23, 2025
Silvergate Settles Securities Class Action For $37.5M In Ch. 11
The parent company of Silvergate Bank has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve a new deal to settle a securities class action for $37.5 million and resolve a slew of indemnification issues in its Chapter 11, a resolution that the debtor said would save it potentially millions of dollars in legal fees.
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April 23, 2025
Investment Fund Insists On DQing Connell Foley From Bias Suit
A Black-owned investment company asked a New Jersey federal court to overturn a magistrate judge's decision denying its bid to disqualify a Connell Foley LLP attorney from representing the state in the investment firm's bias case.
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April 23, 2025
3 Firms Guide Launch Of $3.6B SoftBank-Backed Bitcoin Co.
Bitcoin investment startup Twenty One Capital Inc. plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with Cantor Fitzgerald at a $3.6 billion valuation, in a deal guided by three law firms, the parties announced on Wednesday.
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April 23, 2025
Bernstein Litowitz Looks To Hire SEC's Ex-Top Crypto Cop
Investor-side firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has disclosed in a court filing that it is seeking to hire Jorge Tenreiro, the former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's crypto enforcement unit as well as the onetime chief of the agency's entire litigation team.
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April 23, 2025
AI Entrepreneur In Talks To Resolve $10M Fraud Case
The founder of an education-based artificial intelligence company accused of fleecing investors of $10 million is in talks with prosecutors to resolve the case, according to a Wednesday letter.
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April 22, 2025
Fed's Buffer Plan Marks Start Of Stress Test Reform 'Journey'
The Federal Reserve entered a new era last week with a proposal to smooth out fluctuations in a key capital requirement for big banks, making an opening move toward what industry experts see as potentially much bigger stress-testing reforms on the horizon.
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April 22, 2025
Feds Say Crypto Exec Spent Investors' $57M On Lamborghinis
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Virginia federal prosecutors have launched parallel cases against the founder of a cryptocurrency trading company, alleging that he misappropriated over $57 million of investor funds after orchestrating a type of multilevel-marketing scheme that brought in about $200 million to the company.
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April 22, 2025
Texas Court Questions $55M Arbitration Award's Validity
A Texas appeals panel asked why a $55 million arbitration award to the former director of a Dallas alternative asset investment company can't float just because the arbitrator based the damages on securities filings, saying Tuesday that arbitrators have broad discretion to determine damages.
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April 22, 2025
Majority Shareholders Sanctioned In Telecoms Control Fight
A New York federal judge Tuesday sanctioned the majority shareholders of telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holdings Ltd. for ignoring arbitral awards issued in a bitter, yearslong dispute over control of the company.
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April 22, 2025
FTX Ch. 11 Trust Says Ex-Exec's Wife Spent $600K Since Dec.
The FTX Recovery Trust urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to enjoin the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame from spending additional money that the trust said was fraudulently taken from the company before its bankruptcy filing, saying Michelle Bond has spent more than $600,000 since mid-December on legal fees, luxury vacations and credit card bills.
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April 22, 2025
BlackRock Funds Drop Claims In Valeant Stock Suit
Dozens of BlackRock funds have dropped their claims in multidistrict securities litigation that accused a Bausch Health Cos. Inc. predecessor and others of a market manipulation scheme that caused a stock plummet, according to an order signed Tuesday by a New Jersey federal judge.
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April 22, 2025
Firms Vie To Lead Trade Desk Investor Suit Over AI Rollout
Robbins Geller, Bernstein Litowitz and other firms are seeking to represent a proposed class of investors in a suit alleging global digital marketing venture The Trade Desk Inc. hid snags that ultimately delayed the rollout its artificial intelligence-driven ad-buying platform.
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April 22, 2025
SEC Won't Renew Case Against Hex Crypto Founder
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won't take a second crack at its fraud case against the founder of the Hex, PulseChain and PulseX crypto projects after a Brooklyn federal judge tossed the suit last month due to a lack of stateside ties.
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April 22, 2025
CFTC Wants Input On 24/7 Trading, Perpetual Contracts
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking the public for feedback on how it should address the availability of 24-hour trading as well as so-called perpetual derivatives that are sometimes used to speculate on the price of cryptocurrencies.
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April 22, 2025
Fintech Faces Investor Suit Over Unpaid $1.25M Settlement
A Toronto-headquartered fintech company faces a fresh suit in Brooklyn federal court, alleging it has not paid "a dollar" of the $1.25 million it committed to handing over to end securities fraud claims.
Expert Analysis
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A Look At PCAOB's Record-Breaking Enforcement In 2024
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in 2024 brought more enforcement actions against auditors and imposed increasingly higher monetary penalties, showing that it was not afraid to exercise its power to fine and reprimand firms, a trend that will likely continue in 2025, say attorneys at Briglia Hundley.
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2 Cases May Enlighten UK Funds' Securities Litigation Path
Following recent nine-figure settlements in securities class actions against Apple and Under Armour, U.K. pension funds may increasingly lead U.S. shareholder derivative suits, advocating for transparency, better risk management and stronger governance practices, say lawyers at Labaton Keller.
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Series
Exercising On My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While I originally came to the Peloton bike for exercise, one cycling instructor’s teachings have come to serve as a road map for practicing law thoughtfully and mindfully, which has opened opportunities for growth and change in my career, says Andrea Kirshenbaum at Littler.
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Takeaways From SEC's Mixed Results In '24 Crypto Litigation
Though the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new leadership seems likely to create a more favorable cryptocurrency regulatory environment, it must also confront the consequences of, and lingering questions raised by, the SEC's 2024 policy of investigating and charging cryptocurrency trading platforms for operating unregistered exchanges, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Predicting What's Next For SEC By Looking At Past Dissents
While Paul Atkins' nomination to be the next chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has taken center stage, an analysis of Republican Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda's past votes and dissents provides a preview of where enforcement may shift in the new administration, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation
Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.
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What 2024's Noncompete Turmoil Means For Banks In 2025
A look back at the most significant legal challenges to the enforceability of various restrictive covenants like noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements in 2024 can help financial institutions address the use of these critical tools this year, say attorneys at Maynard Nexsen.
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Opinion
3 New Year's Resolutions For Antitrust Agencies To Consider
James Fredricks at Skadden rings in 2025 with his wish list for the federal antitrust agencies, starting with a provision for a presumptive safe harbor for information sharing.
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New Year, New Risks: 8 Top Cyber Issues For Finance In 2025
As financial institutions forge ahead in 2025, they must strike a delicate balance between embracing technological innovation and guarding against its darker threats, which this year could include everything from supply chain vulnerabilities to deepfakes, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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FTC Focus: A Changing Of The Guard
While rigorous antitrust enforcement is unlikely to slow down at the Federal Trade Commission, the focus will undoubtedly change, including when it comes to Big Tech, as Andrew Ferguson prepares to take the reins from Chair Lina Khan, say attorneys at Proskauer.
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5th Circ.'s Nasdaq Ruling Another Piece In DEI Policy Puzzle
The Fifth Circuit's recent en banc opinion vacating Nasdaq's board diversity listing rule wades into the hotly debated topic of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at a time when many public companies are navigating the attention that DEI commitments are drawing from activists and shareholders, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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8 Trends And Predictions Following PE's Late 2024 Surge
Private equity will remain at the forefront of value creation in 2025, and anticipated market trends include sponsors' desire to return capital to investors and a more business-friendly tack by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, say attorneys at Weil.
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Series
Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.
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Lessons From The SEC's 2024 Crackdown On AI Washing
AI washing was the subject of increased scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2024 following a surge in the commercial adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in 2023, highlighting the importance of transparency, accuracy and accountability when communicating about AI, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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The 6 Most Significant FCRA Litigation Developments Of 2024
From a key sovereign immunity decision at the U.S. Supreme Court to a ruling on creditworthiness out of the Seventh Circuit, several important Fair Credit Reporting Act cases wound their way through the courts in 2024, each offering takeaways for both plaintiffs and defendants, say attorneys at Shipkevich.