The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought a number of notable enforcement proceedings against public companies in fiscal year 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, and into the first quarter of fiscal year 2025....more
In this issue of our monthly Securities Enforcement Roundup, we highlight top securities enforcement developments and cases from October 2024. In October 2024: As discussed in a recent LawFlash, the US Securities and...more
Since December 2021, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have been conducting a sweep of Wall Street’s “off-channel” communications—such as text messages, iMessages,...more
Due to a recent agreement between the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and Chinese securities regulators, many US exchange–listed companies audited by accounting firms based in mainland China and Hong Kong may be...more
So far in 2021, we have seen more than 500 Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) go public and raise more than $123 billion, and more than 160 of these “blank check firms” complete mergers with or acquisitions of...more
12/2/2021
/ Acquisitions ,
Breach of Duty ,
Corporate Governance ,
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Mergers ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Violations ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)