Business Torts › Mergers & Acquisitions › Criminal Law

Restatements Resurrected?: Accounting Fraud By The Numbers

Several months ago, I raised the question of why the large-scale accounting fraud cases of the type that had been so prevalent in the early 2000s were no longer a staple for either federal prosecutors or the SEC. In so doing,...more

SEC And FBI Try To Ketchup To Heinz Insider Traders

In the latest development in an SEC lawsuit filed Friday, February 15, U.S. District Judge Rakoff extended a freeze on a Swiss Goldman Sachs account linked to possible insider trading in H.J. Heinz Company call options. The...more

Recent DOJ Obstruction of Justice Case Highlights Importance of HSR Item 4 Compliance

Failing to comply with premerger document disclosure rules can lead to civil and criminal penalties for companies and their executives. On May 3, 2012, Kyoungwon Pyo, a senior executive at Hyosung Corporation, agreed to...more

Keep the wolves of embezzlement away.

Information on how to keep an embezzlement from taking place....more