Securities

  • September 25, 2025

    Trump SPAC Ex-CEO Wins $1.5M Legal Fee Advance In Del.

    Saying the court was wary of second-guessing attorney judgment in legal fee advancement billings, a Delaware magistrate in chancery has rejected most challenges to $1.5 million in fee claims by a former CEO of Donald Trump-tied blank check company Digital World Acquisition Corp.

  • September 24, 2025

    How CME Used History To Beat A $2B Trading Rights Claim

    As CME Group faced a $2 billion accusation that its data center trampled on some members' long-held trading floor rights, it knew convincing jurors otherwise meant trusting they'd broaden their perspective beyond a simple comparison to see the traders' dispute was not with the exchange but instead an evolving economy.

  • September 24, 2025

    AML Software Sues Athena Bitcoin Over Source Code Theft

    AML Software has filed a copyright infringement suit against ATM operator Athena Bitcoin for allegedly misappropriating its proprietary bitcoin ATM source code without authorization.

  • September 24, 2025

    SEC Gets $7M Default Insider Trading Win Against UK Trader

    A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ordered a British-Lebanese trader to pay over $7.7 million, stemming from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's insider trading allegations, months after the defendant avoided extradition from the U.K. on parallel criminal charges.

  • September 24, 2025

    Texas Banker Says Co.'s $30M Fraud Suit Must Be Arbitrated

    A South African company's lawsuit accusing a Texas family, a wealth manager and Frost Bank of orchestrating a $30 million embezzlement and money laundering scheme belongs in arbitration, the defendants have told a Fort Worth federal judge.

  • September 24, 2025

    UnitedHealth Fights Investor Suit Over DOJ's Merger Probe

    UnitedHealth and its executives have asked a Minnesota federal judge to toss a proposed securities class action accusing it of, among many things, not disclosing that the U.S. Department of Justice had reopened an antitrust investigation into the health insurer, saying the complaint consists of unsupported "scattershot allegations."

  • September 24, 2025

    Binance Founder Not Properly Served In Terror Case: Judge

    Victims of the October 2023 attack in Israel suing Binance for allegedly abetting the attack have been denied permission to serve the cryptocurrency exchange's founder by alternative means, after a D.C. federal judge ruled that their "relatively minimal effort" to serve him via conventional means wasn't enough.

  • September 24, 2025

    Equity Trader Gets 2 Months For Insider Trading

    A Connecticut-based former head of equities trading for an investment firm who copped to insider trading in June has been sentenced to two months in prison and ordered to pay more than $331,000.

  • September 24, 2025

    Skechers Investor Seeks Chancery Appraisal Of $9.4B Deal

    A Skechers shareholder is asking the Delaware Chancery Court for an appraisal to determine the fairness of the $63-per-share buyout price of nearly 700,000 shares in the footwear company after its $9.4 billion take-private deal with 3G Capital.

  • September 24, 2025

    FINRA To Nix Minimum Equity Requirement For Day Traders

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced Wednesday that its board approved changes to its rules for so-called pattern day trading that would remove a minimum equity requirement for such traders.

  • September 24, 2025

    Judge Denies Tron Founder's Bid To Block Bloomberg Report

    A Delaware federal judge declined to direct Bloomberg LP to remove reporting about Justin Sun's crypto holdings for now in an opinion that said he remains unconvinced the media outlet made any promise of confidentiality to the Tron founder.

  • September 24, 2025

    Coinbase Wants Out Of Terraform Token Conversion Loss Suit

    Coinbase Inc. has urged a California federal court to toss a suit lodged by cryptocurrency buyers alleging the crypto exchange caused them to incur losses after Terraform's collapse three years ago, arguing the buyers' claims are both time-barred and fail to show that the crypto exchange intended to deceive.

  • September 24, 2025

    Defunct Tech Co.'s CEO Bilked Investors Of $120M, Feds Say

    The founder of a defunct Canadian technology company faces criminal charges and a civil suit in California federal court by securities regulators on Wednesday stemming from a fraud scheme where he allegedly raised $120 million after providing investors with bogus financial statements that inflated the company's financial condition and performance.

  • September 24, 2025

    Comcast Loses Challenge To Labor Dept. ALJs' Authority

    Comcast Corp. can't force a pair of former executives and the U.S. Department of Labor to sue in federal court, after a Virginia federal judge found that handing a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower case to an administrative law judge did not violate the company's Seventh Amendment rights.

  • September 24, 2025

    Merrill Lynch Accuses Ex-Staff, Schwab, Investor Of IP Theft

    Merrill Lynch has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against a dozen former employees, Charles Schwab and Dynasty Financial Partners, alleging the defendants conspired to start a new independent financial advisory firm with Merrill's staff and confidential information.

  • September 24, 2025

    Del. Justices Uphold $10.5B Zendesk Take-Private Deal

    Delaware's Supreme Court early Wednesday upheld the Court of Chancery's Sept. 10 dismissal of a stockholder challenge to the $10.5 billion take-private deal for software as a service business Zendesk Inc., closing the book on the case in two sentences issued two weeks after appeal arguments.

  • September 24, 2025

    Chancery OKs TRO In Marshall Wace-Lukka Financing Battle

    Affiliates of British hedge fund Marshall Wace LLP won a Delaware Court of Chancery temporary restraining order Wednesday barring crypto data provider Lukka Inc. from completing, pending trial, a new "cram-down, pay-to-play" convertible note financing that would supersede current liquidation preferences and voting rights currently more favorable to MW's Lukka stake.

  • September 24, 2025

    Olo Investor Sues For Records On $2B Thoma Bravo Deal

    A hedge fund has filed a books and records demand against a restaurant software company in Delaware Chancery Court, hoping to investigate whether the stock price in its $2 billion merger with Thoma Bravo was fair and threatening a potential appraisal action.

  • September 24, 2025

    SEC Taps Longtime FINRA Exec As Trading & Markets Deputy

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday named a new deputy director of the agency's Division of Trading and Markets who previously served in senior roles at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and most recently worked at SEC Chair Paul Atkins' now-former financial services consultancy.

  • September 23, 2025

    Banks Urge SEC To Hold Crypto Custody To Same Standards

    Financial services trade groups have cautioned the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against broadly permitting investment advisers and state-chartered trust companies to safeguard customer's cryptocurrency assets, urging the agency to maintain equal standards for all financial custodians amid planned crypto rulemaking.

  • September 23, 2025

    RadioShack Reboot Plan Morphed Into $112M Scam, SEC Says

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued three former Retail Ecommerce Ventures LLC executives in Florida federal court Tuesday, alleging they raised $112 million through fraudulent securities offerings that operated as a Ponzi-like scheme that promised bogus 25% annual returns to revitalize popular REV brands including RadioShack and Pier 1 Imports.

  • September 23, 2025

    CFTC Seeks Feedback On The Use Of Crypto Collateral

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched an initiative on Tuesday to enable the use of certain crypto assets as collateral in derivatives markets, soliciting industry suggestions on potential pilot programs, amendments to regulations and relevant issues.

  • September 23, 2025

    Laser Co. Mynaric Investors Get Final OK For $300K Deal

    Investors in laser communication company Mynaric AG have gotten a final nod for their $300,000 deal ending proposed class action claims the company covered up production delays despite allegedly knowing its revenue growth would later take a hit as a result.

  • September 23, 2025

    SEC Accuses Russian Man Of Hacking Pump & Dump Scheme

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hit a Russian national with a civil suit Monday, accusing him of hijacking hundreds of individual consumer brokerage accounts to run a $31 million pump-and-dump scheme with low-volume stocks and options.

  • September 23, 2025

    Hedge Funds Call For CFTC To End Dual Registration

    A group representing the hedge fund industry is calling on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to drop the need for industry participants to submit to agency oversight in cases where fund managers are already registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, calling the dual registration requirement "costly" and "inefficient."

Expert Analysis

  • Bipartisan Bill Could Aid ESOP Formation, Valuation Clarity

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    The proposed Retire through Ownership Act represents a meaningful first step toward clarifying whether transactions qualify under the adequate consideration exemption in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, potentially eliminating the litigation risk that has chilled employee stock ownership plan formation, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

  • ESG-Focused Activism Persists Despite Proxy Curbs

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    Shareholder activism focused on environmental, social and governance factors appears poised to continue, despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent move toward exclusions in proxy voting proposals around ESG, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • Opinion

    Bar Exam Reform Must Expand Beyond A Single Updated Test

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    Recently released information about the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam highlights why a single test is not ideal for measuring newly licensed lawyers’ competency, demonstrating the need for collaborative development, implementation and reform processes, says Gregory Bordelon at Suffolk University.

  • A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations

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    As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.

  • Opinion

    SEC Should Restore Its 2020 Proxy Adviser Rule

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    Due to concerns over proxy advisers' accuracy, reliability and transparency, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should reinstate its 2020 rule designed to suppress the influence that they wield in shareholder voting, says Kyle Isakower at the American Council for Capital Formation.

  • What's At Stake In High Court Review Of Funds' Right To Sue

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming review of FS Credit Opportunities v. Saba Capital Master Fund, a case testing the limits of using Investment Company Act Section 47(b) to give funds a private right of action to enforce other sections of the law, could either encourage or curb similar activist investor lawsuits, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • The Road Ahead For Digital Assets Looks Promising

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    With new legislation expected to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology, and with regulators taking a markedly more permissive approach to digital assets, the convergence of traditional finance and decentralized finance is closer than ever, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • How Securities Defendants Might Use New Wire Fraud Ruling

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    Though the Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Chastain decision — vacating the conviction of an ex-OpenSea staffer — involved the wire fraud statute, insider trading defendants might attempt to import the ruling’s reasoning into the securities realm, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • M&A Ruling Reinforces High Bar For Aiding, Abetting Claims

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    The Delaware Supreme Court's recent decision in In re: Columbia Pipeline may slow the filing of aiding and abetting claims against third-party buyers in situations where buyers negotiate aggressively, putting buy-side dealmakers' minds at ease that they likely won't be liable for seeking the best possible deal, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Series

    Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.

  • Del. Dispatch: Conflicted Transactions And New Safe Harbors

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    Two recent Delaware Court of Chancery decisions involving conflicted transactions underscore that the new safe harbors established by the Delaware General Corporation Law amendments passed in March, going forward, provide a far easier route to business judgment review of conflicted transactions than were previously available, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

  • Opinion

    The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable

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    As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.

  • The Int'l Compliance View: Everything Everywhere All At Once

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    Changes to the enforcement landscape in the U.S. and abroad shift the risks and incentives for global compliance programs, creating a race against the clock for companies to deploy investigative resources across worldwide operations, say attorneys at Dentons.

  • Unpacking Notable Details From FTC's 'AI Washing' Cases

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    The Federal Trade Commission has brought many cases involving allegedly deceptive artificial intelligence claims over the past couple of years, illustrating overlooked aspects of AI washing generally and a few new types of AI marketing claims that may line up in regulatory crosshairs down the road, says Michael Atleson at DLA Piper.

  • 'Pig Butchering' Seizure Is A Milestone In Crypto Crime Fight

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    The U.S.' recent seizure of $225 million in crypto funds in a massive "pig butchering" scheme highlights the transformative impact of blockchain analysis in law enforcement, and the increasing necessity of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.

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