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Securities

  • June 24, 2025

    Chancery Won't Let Nielsen Spinoff Block Access To Data

    Nielsen Holdings Ltd. won a temporary restraining order in Delaware's Court of Chancery Tuesday blocking a spun-off consumer intelligence venture from denying access to data used by Nielsen and another company that it intends to sell to the dissenting spinoff's competitor.

  • June 24, 2025

    GOP Senators Unveil Crypto Market Framework Principles

    Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning released a set of principles to guide the development of digital asset market structure legislation, their latest push toward regulating the cryptocurrency space following their passage of stablecoin legislation last week.

  • June 24, 2025

    Judge Cites Slack In Tossing Allbirds Investors' IPO Suit

    A California federal judge has once again tossed an investor class action accusing shoemaker Allbirds Inc. of failing to warn investors about the risks of its shifting business strategy ahead of its initial public offering, ruling that shareholders would need to prove they can overcome the U.S. Supreme Court's Slack test in order to move forward with the case.

  • June 24, 2025

    SEC, Ex-Chicago Hedge Fund Ink $5.8M Deal In Fraud Suit

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has settled with a now-defunct Chicago investment firm in its lawsuit accusing the firm of mismanaging $1 billion in assets, ahead of a trial, with the firm and its co-defendants agreeing to fork over more than $5.8 million collectively.

  • June 24, 2025

    Ex-NFL Player Says Indicted Adviser Defrauded Him For Years

    Retired Carolina Panthers defensive lineman Mike Rucker and his wife unknowingly invested in a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by their longtime financial adviser who is now under criminal indictment in North Carolina, according to a state court complaint they filed accusing him of mismanaging their money for decades.

  • June 24, 2025

    Twitter Investors Seek Class Cert. In Suit Against Musk

    Shareholders of the social media company formerly known as Twitter have asked a New York federal judge to certify their proposed class in a suit accusing Elon Musk of failing to timely disclose his purchase of company stock back when it was publicly traded.

  • June 24, 2025

    P&G Worker's 'Unworthy' Ex Can't Claim $754K, 3rd Circ. Told

    The estate of a late Procter & Gamble employee has urged the Third Circuit to undo a lower court's decisions in favor of the deceased employee's "unworthy ancient girlfriend" from the 1980s, arguing that the Pennsylvania federal judge who granted that former flame the worker's $754,000 retirement fund "failed to comprehend" relevant law.

  • June 24, 2025

    Dechert Grows In DC With SEC Investment Management Atty

    Dechert LLP announced Tuesday that it has added the former assistant chief counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management to enhance its capacity to advise clients about financial services and regulatory matters.

  • June 24, 2025

    Kirkland Hires Goodwin Investment Partner In Boston

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former counsel to a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who moves to the firm's Boston office after more than five years at Goodwin Procter LLP.

  • June 23, 2025

    GOP Plan For Merging Agencies Faces Reckoning, And Alarm

    The Senate parliamentarian has given a thumbs-down to a Republican budget proposal that would allow President Donald Trump to unilaterally eliminate agencies through mergers and consolidation, adding to what experts say are a host of problems with the little-noticed provision.

  • June 23, 2025

    FTX Trust Slams Three Arrows' 'Illogical' $1.5B Claim

    The FTX bankruptcy recovery trust on Friday objected to a $1.53 billion claim made by the now-liquidated cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd., saying the "illogical and baseless" claim grossly inflates the actual value of assets associated with its customers' FTX accounts, while offering zero supporting evidence.

  • June 23, 2025

    Muddy Waters Must Face Suit Over $14M SEC Tipster Award

    Investment research service Muddy Waters LLC and its founder cannot escape a lawsuit alleging they stiffed a purported former partner out of his share of a $14 million whistleblower award from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a New York federal judge ruled Monday.

  • June 23, 2025

    Deep-Sea Mining Co. Beats Investors' Accounting Fraud Suit

    A California federal judge has tossed an investor suit accusing deep sea miner The Metals Co. Inc. and its top brass of flawed accounting related to a strategic partnership, saying the plaintiffs failed to adequately plead the challenged statements were false or that the defendants acted with knowledge of wrongdoing.

  • June 23, 2025

    Teladoc Says Investor Suit Over User Losses Is 'Illogical'

    Telemedicine giant Teladoc Health Inc. and two of its executives seek to shed a proposed investor class action, telling a New York federal judge the shareholder suit makes "illogical" claims that they lied about post-pandemic increases in customer acquisition costs for the company's flagship mental health counseling platform.

  • June 23, 2025

    SEC Names Wiley Rein Partner As Inspector General

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that a white collar defense and government investigations partner at Wiley Rein LLP will serve as the agency's next inspector general, starting late next month.

  • June 23, 2025

    Drink Co., Founder To Pay SEC $1.1M Over Faux Rihanna Deal

    A beverage company and its founder have agreed to give the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over $1.1 million as part of a resolution of claims they misused investor funds and inaccurately suggested they were poised to collaborate with pop star Rihanna.

  • June 23, 2025

    Ex-CEO Of CBD Water Co. Must Face Pump-And-Dump Case

    The former CEO of a cannabis-infused water company and a stockholder must face all claims made in a federal indictment accusing them of artificially inflating company shares so they could sell them for a profit, an Ohio federal judge ruled, saying the government has properly alleged a single conspiracy.

  • June 23, 2025

    Olaplex Cites Slack Ruling In Attempt To Curtail Investor Suit

    Hair care brand Olaplex is urging a California federal judge not to certify a class of investors who allege the company failed to flag a regulatory risk ahead of its initial public offering, arguing that "at a minimum" the proposed class should be narrowed under the rubric of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Slack decision.

  • June 23, 2025

    Fed Joins Peers In Axing Reputational Risk As Exam Factor

    The Federal Reserve Board on Monday became the latest regulator to announce that it will no longer consider reputational risk in its examination programs for the supervision of banks.

  • June 23, 2025

    Mullen Auto Investors' $7.25M Settlement Gets Final OK

    A California federal judge has granted final approval to a $7.3 million settlement between Mullen Automotive Inc. and a class of its investors that alleged the company made misrepresentations about its revenues and order volumes to inflate share prices ahead of a merger.

  • June 23, 2025

    Ontrak Founder Gets 3½ Years In Novel Insider Trading Case

    A California federal judge sentenced Ontrak Inc. founder Terren Peizer to 3½ years in prison Monday, following a first-of-its-kind insider trading conviction on accusations that he based a $20 million share sale on material nonpublic information that his health technology company was about to lose its biggest client, Cigna. 

  • June 23, 2025

    Trump SPAC's Ex-CEO Fights Alleged $1.5M Fee Holdback

    A former CEO of President Donald Trump-tied Digital World Acquisition Corp. on Monday filed an application seeking payment of more than $1.5 million in legal fee advancements, alleging in Delaware Chancery Court improper withholdings by the company despite earlier commitments to cover eligible costs.

  • June 23, 2025

    Trump Media Authorizes $400M Share Repurchase

    Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., the owner of President Donald Trump's social media platform, said Monday it has authorized buying back up to $400 million of its shares, marking the company's latest cash management strategy.

  • June 23, 2025

    $12M Deal Proposed For Sports Bet SPAC Suit In Chancery

    Parties in a deal that took public a pair of online gambling companies once valued at $4.75 billion in 2022, including a brother of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, have tentatively agreed to a $12 million settlement for a Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder suit alleging overstated share values and understated risks.

  • June 23, 2025

    Binance Agrees To Shutter Conn. Trading Operations

    Crypto platform Binance has agreed to shut down the Connecticut operations of its U.S. subsidiary BAM Trading Services Inc. after a majority owner of the company was convicted of money laundering and also admitted to violating state statutes, according to a new consent order.

Expert Analysis

  • 10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master

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    As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.

  • How Proxy Advisory Firms Are Approaching AI And DEI

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    Institutional Shareholder Services' and Glass Lewis' annual updates to their proxy voting guidelines reflect some of the biggest issues of the day, including artificial intelligence and DEI, and companies should parse these changes carefully, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Traversing The Shifting Sands Of ESG Reporting Compliance

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    Multinational corporations have increasingly found themselves between a rock and a hard place attempting to comply with EU and California ESG requirements while not running afoul of expanding U.S. anti-ESG regimes, but focusing on what is material to shareholder value and establishing strong governance can help, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

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    Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

  • Ban On Reputation Risk May Help Bank Enforcement Defense

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    The Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s recent commitment to stop examining banks for reputation risk could help defendants in enforcement actions challenge unfavorable assessments and support defendants' arguments for lower civil money penalties, says Brendan Clegg at Luse Gorman.

  • Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance

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    Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.

  • Assessing Market Manipulation Claims In Energy Markets

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    Today's energy markets are conducive to sudden price changes, breakdowns in pricing linkages and substantial shifts in trading patterns, so it's necessary to take a holistic view when evaluating allegations of market manipulation, say Maximilian Bredendiek, Greg Leonard and Manuel Vasconcelos at Cornerstone Research.

  • Series

    Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.

  • Limit On SEC Enforcement Authority May Mean Fewer Actions

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    Following a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission final rule revoking the Enforcement Division director's long-standing authority to issue formal investigation orders, it's clear the division is headed for a new era of limited autonomy, marked by a significantly slower pace of SEC investigations, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

  • As SEC, CFTC Retreat, Who Will Police The Crypto Markets?

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    As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission pull back from policing the crypto markets, the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have the authority to pick up the slack — although recent events raise doubts that they will do so, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Calif. May Pick Up The Slack On Foreign Bribery Enforcement

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    The California attorney general recently expressed an interest in targeting foreign bribery amid a federal pause in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, so companies should calibrate their compliance programs to mitigate against changing risks, especially as other states could follow California’s lead, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols

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    Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • A Look At M&A Trends In An Uncertain Deal Environment

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    Dealmakers are adopting more cautious and deliberate merger and acquisition practices, such as earnout agreements, joint ventures and strategic partnerships that mitigate risk and bridge valuation gaps, amid the slower pace so far in 2025, says Louis Lehot at Foley & Lardner.

  • Opinion

    Ripple Settlement Offers Hope For Better Regulatory Future

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    The recent settlement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple — in which the agency agreed to return $75 million of a $125 million fine — vindicates criticisms of the SEC and highlights the urgent need for a complete overhaul of its crypto regulation, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work

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    Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.

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