Ƶ

Securities

  • May 22, 2025

    Chancellor Wants Del. High Court To Review 'DExit' Corp. Law

    Delaware's chancellor wants the state's high court to weigh in on a constitutional challenge of the controversial corporate law overhaul signed into law in March in an attempt to stave off more corporate charter relocations and protect the state's legal industry and $2 billion in annual corporate franchise fees.

  • 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.

  • May 21, 2025

    Tech CEO Duped Investors, Faked Blockchain Deals, Feds Say

    The co-founder and CEO of Amalgam Capital Ventures on Wednesday was charged with defrauding investors in the purported blockchain-based software startup by lying about sky-high revenue projections and partnerships with well-known businesses, including major league sports teams and top payment processing platforms.

  • May 21, 2025

    Fox Accuses Smartmatic Of Destroying 'Critical' Evidence

    Fox News on Wednesday called for Smartmatic to be sanctioned, claiming that nearly two-dozen executives and other employees at the voting tech company destroyed "critical" evidence related to the company's defamation case against the television network, an accusation that comes a week after Smartmatic said Fox deleted relevant texts.

  • May 21, 2025

    CFTC Member Says Enforcement Needs More Transparency

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Christy Goldsmith Romero on Wednesday called on the agency to be more transparent about its enforcement decisions, while laying out the factors she weighs in crediting firms for self-reporting and cooperation.

  • May 21, 2025

    House Panel Advances Bills Easing Securities, Banking Regs

    The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee this week approved 25 bills largely aimed at reducing capital markets and banking regulations, moving the deregulatory proposals forward for consideration by the full House.

  • May 21, 2025

    Title Insurance Co. Fights Treasury All-Cash Resi Deals Rule

    A title insurance company and a subsidiary have filed suit in Florida federal court challenging new reporting requirements for all-cash real estate closings, saying the rule exceeds the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's authority.

  • May 21, 2025

    AbbVie Gets Victory In Allergan Shareholder Suit Upheld

    An Illinois state appellate panel said Wednesday that a trial court properly dismissed a shareholder class action against biopharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc. that accused the drugmaker of issuing unregistered shares to investors after acquiring Irish pharmaceutical company Allergan.

  • May 21, 2025

    Chancery Orders Nominating Do-Over For Ionic Board Vote

    Citing overwhelming trial evidence, a Delaware vice chancellor on Wednesday told bankrupt Celsius Network's Ionic Digital successor to reopen a board nomination window after finding that the company wrongly eliminated one of two director seats ahead of an election in a defensive move targeting dissident candidates.

  • May 21, 2025

    Intel Investors Say They Fixed Suit Over Chipmaking Woes

    Intel Corp. investors say a California federal judge should reject the company's bid to dismiss a suit claiming it concealed problems in its domestic computer chipmaking business, arguing they have fixed all potential deficiencies in the suit that previously led to its dismissal.

  • May 21, 2025

    NY Firm To Repay $1M, Avoids Fine Over Illiquid Investments

    New York-based broker-dealer David Lerner Associates Inc. has agreed to pay more than $1 million in restitution to end the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's allegations that the firm's inadequate supervisory system failed to flag representatives' recommendation of illiquid limited partnerships to thousands of customers, in a settlement that includes no fine against the firm.

  • May 21, 2025

    Payday Lender's Ex-CEO Pleads Guilty In $66M Ponzi Scheme

    The former CEO of a Miami payday loan company pled guilty Wednesday to operating a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say fraudulently raised $66 million from more than 500 investors.

  • May 21, 2025

    Kronos Bio Shareholder Says Sale Unfairly Benefits Execs

    Kronos Bio is facing a new shareholder suit claiming its plan to be acquired by another biopharmaceutical company will unfairly entitle Kronos executives to "lucrative" benefits unavailable to public shareholders.

  • May 21, 2025

    SafeMoon CEO Convicted Of Looting Crypto Company

    A Brooklyn federal jury on Wednesday quickly found the former CEO of SafeMoon guilty of conspiring to loot over $40 million from the cryptocurrency firm, making him the second former top leader of the once-hot company to be convicted while its founder remains a fugitive.

  • May 21, 2025

    Sheppard Mullin Lands Alston & Bird, Dechert Attys

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has brought on a former Alston & Bird LLP partner in its Dallas office and a former Dechert LLP partner in its San Francisco office, strengthening the firm's finance and bankruptcy practice and business trial practice.

  • May 21, 2025

    CFTC Faces Leadership Void As 3rd Commissioner Plans Exit

    U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Kristin Johnson has become the third agency member to announce her upcoming departure within the space of a week, potentially leaving the market regulator with a single voting member as it awaits the appointment of a new chair.

  • May 20, 2025

    SEC Says Unicoin Made $100M Via 'Massive' Offering Fraud

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday accused Unicoin of promoting a "massive securities offering fraud" through which the cryptocurrency company raised more than $100 million from unknowing investors, according to a complaint filed in New York federal court.

  • May 20, 2025

    Crypto Co. Genesis Sues Parent Co. Over $1.2B In Transfers

    Genesis Global Capital, a crypto lender that filed for bankruptcy in 2023, is now suing its parent company in bankruptcy court, seeking to recover more than $1.2 billion that the lender says was transferred to insiders while the company was insolvent and headed for Chapter 11.

  • May 20, 2025

    Prudential Investors Seek OK Of $10M Derivative Settlement

    Shareholders of Prudential Financial have asked for final approval for a $10 million deal ending derivative claims that the company concealed that it would need to revise its cost expectations for certain life insurance policies it had acquired.

  • May 20, 2025

    Barclays Officials Beat Shareholder's Suit At NY High Court

    New York's highest court on Tuesday rejected arguments that current and former officials of London-based Barclays PLC can be sued under New York law over a series of scandals that have rocked the bank, a decision that sparked rebuke from the court's chief judge.

  • May 20, 2025

    FDIC Nixes Biden-Era Merger Rules As House Passes OCC Bill

    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Tuesday finalized the repeal of stricter bank merger guidelines adopted last year, pulling them back the same day as the U.S. House moved to nullify the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's Biden-era merger policy rewrite.

  • May 20, 2025

    Cancer Drug Co. Beats Investor Suit Over FDA Rejection

    Cancer drug company Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc. has permanently escaped a shareholder suit alleging it understated the likelihood the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would refuse approving Checkpoint's lead product candidate, with a New York federal judge ruling company statements were not shown to be false or made with scienter.

  • May 20, 2025

    Tech Co. AppLovin's Brass Face 'Shadow Downloads' Claims

    Executives and directors of technology company AppLovin face a shareholder derivative suit alleging they breached their fiduciary duties after the company allegedly inflated its download numbers, a key performance metric, by means of manipulative practices.

  • May 20, 2025

    Ill. Judge Won't Toss Cannabis Payment Venture Dispute

    An Illinois federal judge refused on Tuesday to toss out a shareholder's derivative lawsuit alleging his business partner usurped an opportunity to provide payment services to cannabis giant Cresco Labs, rejecting the other 50% shareholder's argument that the court lacked diversity jurisdiction in the case.

  • May 20, 2025

    Crypto Co. Says Uniswap Uses Its Patented DeFi Tech

    The developer of decentralized exchange Bancor on Tuesday accused the entities behind its competitor Uniswap of wrongfully using patented smart contract technology that went on to underpin much of the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Expert Analysis

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

    Author Photo

    “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.

  • Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'

    Author Photo

    The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.

  • What To Expect In Crypto Banking After SEC Nixed Guidance

    Author Photo

    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.

  • Partially Faulting Airline For 401(k) ESG Focus Belies ERISA

    Author Photo

    A Texas federal court's recent finding that American Airlines breached its fiduciary duty of loyalty, but not of prudence, by letting its 401(k) pursue environmental, social and governance investments, misinterprets the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's standard of care, says Jeff Mamorsky, a Cohen & Buckmann partner and ERISA drafter.

  • Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty

    Author Photo

    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

    Author Photo

    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

    Author Photo

    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.

  • Will Independent Federal Agencies Remain Independent?

    Author Photo

    For 90 years, members of multimember independent federal agencies have relied on the U.S. Supreme Court's 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor v. U.S. establishing the security of their positions — but as the Trump administration attempts to overturn this understanding, it is unclear how the high court will respond, says Harvey Reiter at Stinson.

  • Del. Justices' D&O Ruling Clarifies 'Related' Claim Analysis

    Author Photo

    In its recent decision in the Alexion Pharmaceuticals coverage case, the Delaware Supreme Court adopted a "meaningful linkage" standard for relatedness analysis, providing further guidance to Delaware policyholders on how to navigate those directors and officers insurance disputes, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • 5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far

    Author Photo

    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

    Author Photo

    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

    Author Photo

    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.

  • How Private Securities Suits Complement SEC Enforcement

    Author Photo

    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

    Author Photo

    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.

  • Corp. Transparency Act's Future Under Treasury's Bessent

    Author Photo

    The Corporate Transparency Act’s ultimate fate faced uncertain terms at the end of 2024, but new U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's statements and actions so far demonstrate that he does not intend to ignore the law, though he may attempt to make modifications, say attorneys at Taylor English.

Want to publish in Law360?


Submit an idea

Have a news tip?


Contact us here
Can't find the article you're looking for? Click here to search the Securities archive.