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SEC Continues to Target Brokers and Investment Advisors with Cherry Picking Investigations

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has conducted several publicized investigations focused on broker and investment adviser or advisor cherry-picking in recent years. Most recently, the SEC announced on August...more

King & Spalding

Working From Home? Stay Alert to Avoid Insider Trading or Tipping Liability!

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Even when surrounded by the ones we love, it is important to keep confidential information away from them. Others may not realize that they should not trade after overhearing interesting comments—or worse, they may try to...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Closing Up the SPAC Shop: Insurance Consequences and Opportunities for Liquidating SPACs

In 2020 and 2021, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) were all the rage. A SPAC is a “blank check company,” publicly traded, and organized for the purpose of merging with a private company. It’s a mechanism for a...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

I Am “Investigating” The Fact That Claimant’s Lawyers Use BrokerCheck In A Way FINRA Did Not Intend

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I get the fact that anyone silly enough to work for a broker-dealer knowingly chooses to live in a fishbowl. Thanks to BrokerCheck, you can very easily learn more about a registered representative than you can about, say, a...more

Polsinelli

Lying to Regulators … What’s The Risk?

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In one of the most high-profile cases of its time, Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice as a result of her intentional misrepresentation to Securities and Exchange Commission and FBI investigators regarding the...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Insurer Has No Duty To Verify Accuracy of Insurance Application Representations

In American Way Cellular, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, issued May 30, 2013, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District reaffirmed that insurers are not obligated to investigate...more

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