Katten Muchin

1. A New Market Access Rule For Broker-Dealers?

Monday, Mar 15, 2010

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed Rule 15c3-5 has the potential to significantly change the practices of many market participants engaged in trading strategies that depend on low-latency access. Many market participants will need to add or improve pre-trade controls for their own trading and/or the trading of their customers, says Janet M. Angstadt of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

2. Vanderbilt Pay-For-Play Fraud Cost NM $288M: Suit

Thursday, Mar 11, 2010

A former New Mexico state official has beefed up his whistleblower lawsuit against a slew of defendants, including Vanderbilt Financial LLC, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Richards Layton & Finger PA and Clifford Chance US LLP, saying the state lost $288 million at the hands of a pay-to-play scheme involving mortgage-backed securities.

3. MEMC Shareholders Lose Suit Over Factory Problems

Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010

A federal judge has dismissed two consolidated class actions alleging solar cell maker MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. violated securities laws when it delayed disclosing production problems, including a fire, at two factories in Texas and Italy.

4. Export Initiative Means New Opportunities, Vast Rules

Thursday, Mar 04, 2010

With the Obama administration launching an initiative aimed at doubling U.S. exports within five years, many companies could soon be exporting products and services for the first time. In order to ensure that new business opportunities are not offset by government fines, companies shipping overseas need to pay close attention to complex U.S. export control laws, lawyers said.

5. Claims In Antitrust Suit Against Speedo Torpedoed

Thursday, Mar 04, 2010

Speedo USA has won the dismissal of several claims in an antitrust battle brought by TYR Sport Inc., including a false advertising claim that it induced the head coach of the U.S. national swimming team to promote Speedo products.

6. Lateral Market Stays Hot As Winter Wears On

Monday, Mar 01, 2010

Lateral movement in the legal industry continued to rise in February, with Allen & Overy LLP picking up more than a dozen partners from Clayton Utz, and Latham & Watkins LLP and Haynes and Boone LLP also showing significant gains.

7. Ford Seeks Appeal In $2.6M Export Tax Refund Feud

Monday, Mar 01, 2010

In an effort to revisit a ruling that could affect similar cases, Ford Motor Co. has requested an interlocutory appeal in its challenge over $2.6 million in harbor maintenance taxes — deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court — that the U.S. government has refused to pay back.

8. CORRECTED: Part Of Crestor Case Moves To Fla.

Thursday, Feb 25, 2010

Despite objections from plaintiff AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, a federal judge has adopted a magistrate judge's ruling that the drugmaker's patent infringement lawsuit against one defendant, Apotex Inc., over the cholesterol medication Crestor should be moved to Florida.

9. Webroot, PineApp Settle Meteora Word-Check IP Suit

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

Webroot Software Inc. and PineApp Corp. have notched settlements in Meteora Inc.'s infringement suit against nearly two dozen data security companies over a patent for word-checking technology.

10. Making Sense Of SEC’s NOBO-OBO Rules

Friday, Feb 19, 2010

Given the somewhat complicated regulatory context for communicating with retail shareholders, it is important to understand the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rules on "non-objecting beneficial owners" and "objecting beneficial owners" and how they operate, says Frank Zarb of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

11. Fontainebleau Loses Appeal Attempt In Lender Fight

Friday, Feb 05, 2010

A federal judge has rejected bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas Holdings LLC’s attempts to appeal one ruling moving a dispute with its lenders out of bankruptcy court and another finding that lenders' decisions to cut off financing to the company's casino resort project might have been reasonable.

12. Legal Power Couple: Meryl Wiener & Barry Bryer

Friday, Feb 05, 2010

This week, as Valentine's Day approaches, Law360 takes a look at five couples whose careers couldn't preempt the laws of attraction. Today's powerful pairing: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's Meryl Wiener and Latham & Watkins LLP's Barry Bryer.

13. CIT Rebuffs Ford's Judgment Bid In $2M Export Tax Row

Thursday, Jan 28, 2010

Ford Motor Co. has lost its bid to force the U.S. government to refund $2.3 million in harbor maintenance taxes the automaker paid between 1987 and July 1990, which the Supreme Court subsequently deemed unconstitutional.

14. Generics Makers Challenge AstraZeneca In Crestor MDL

Thursday, Jan 28, 2010

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Apotex Corp. and a clutch of other generic-drug makers accused of infringing AstraZeneca PLC’s patent for the cholesterol drug Crestor are claiming the company's marketing unit lacks standing to partake in the multidistrict litigation.

15. Katten Lures Sonnenschein White Collar, Health Attys

Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010

Two white collar litigation partners and a health care and appellate partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP have joined Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's Washington office.

16. BIS Guidance On '2nd Incorporation Principle'

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

On Jan. 6, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Commerce Department published a redacted September 2009 advisory opinion which, in an incremental way, may reduce the downstream burden of U.S. re-export controls, says David M. Dunbar of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

17. Law Firms Open Their Wallets For Haiti

Friday, Jan 15, 2010

As the world scrambles to come to Haiti's aid in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake, law firms are stepping up in both traditional and novel ways. Over 80 firms responded to a Law360 query into what they are doing financially and otherwise to respond to the Haitian crisis.

18. Law360 IP Editorial Advisory Board

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2010 intellectual property editorial advisory board.

19. Law360 Securities Editorial Advisory Board

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2010 securities editorial advisory board.

20. Apotex Seeks Stay In Plavix Suit Pending USPTO Ruling

Monday, Jan 11, 2010

Apotex Inc. is asking a federal court to stay its long-running patent suit with Sanofi-Aventis SA over the blood-thinning drug Plavix while the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office re-examines Sanofi's patent for the drug.