Summary of 2021 Trends, Themes, and Takeaways -
We are proud to present our sixth annual Securities Litigation Year in Review publication, in which we analyze data for securities class actions filed nationally against...more
On December 15, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, as SEC Chairman Gary Gensler first previewed in June in the wake of increased scrutiny of the plans. A Rule...more
In many ways, 2020 was an unprecedented year. In midMarch, the United States abruptly went into lockdown as coronavirus cases began to spike; a national emergency was declared, travel bans and gathering restrictions were...more
4/28/2021
/ Class Action ,
Data Breach ,
Dismissals ,
Duty to Disclose ,
Failure To Disclose ,
False Statements ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investors ,
Misleading Statements ,
Omissions ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Securities Fraud ,
Securities Litigation ,
Securities Violations ,
Shareholder Litigation ,
Stock Prices
On March 5, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York charging AT&T with repeated violations of Section 13 of the Securities...more
3/22/2021
/ Aiding and Abetting ,
AT&T ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Investors ,
Non-Public Information ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation FD ,
Section 13 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Securities Violations
On March 18, 2020, the Delaware Supreme Court issued a decision in Salzberg, et al. v. Sciabacucchi, No. 346, 2019 (Del. Sup. Ct. Mar. 18, 2020), upholding the validity of charter provisions or bylaws that require claims...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) has published a report of an investigation (the Report) into whether certain public companies that suffered financial losses as a result of cyber-related fraud violated...more
In the closely watched case Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employee Retirement Fund, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 did not eliminate concurrent state court...more
After receiving an inquiry from a government agency, such as a subpoena, a Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”), or an informal request for information, public companies ask whether they must disclose publicly that they may be...more
3/16/2016
/ Civil Investigation Demand ,
D&O Insurance ,
Duty to Disclose ,
FOIA ,
Government Investigations ,
Mergers ,
Public Disclosure ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholders ,
Subpoenas ,
Wells Notice
The SEC’s 2013 Whistleblower Report to Congress reported an 8% increase in tips and whistleblower awards over the previous year, as well as the program’s largest single award to date. In recent public statements,...more