Filings in the services, manufacturing, finance, insurance, and real estate industries contribute to year-over-year increase. Large corporate bankruptcy filings continued to climb in the latter half of 2023 through the first…
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/ Bankruptcy, Finance & Banking, Law Practice Products & Services
Securities class action settlements often include what is commonly referred to as a “blow provision”—a provision designed to give defendants the option to terminate the settlement agreement if a specified threshold of investors…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Securities Law
Ukraine War contributes to substantial increase in U.S. LNG exports to Europe. Washington—Annual marketed production of natural gas increased in the United States to a record high in 2022..…
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/ Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade
The authors examine settlement outcomes of derivative lawsuits linked to securities class actions, focusing on 110 cases associated with securities class action settlements between 2019 and 2023…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
This is an excerpt from Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment -
This index tracks the number of core federal filings against foreign issuers (i.e., companies headquartered outside the United States) relative…
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This is an excerpt from Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment -
This figure highlights recent trend categories that have appeared in core filing activity. See the Glossary for definitions of each trend…
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/ Business Torts, Civil Procedure, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
This is an excerpt from Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment -
COVID-19-related filings are on pace to increase by 27% in 2024. The number of cryptocurrency-related filings in 2024 H1 (three) was in line…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The number of securities class action filings increased in the first half of 2024 relative to the second half of 2023, according to a report released today by Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
The inaugural TEC Institute Summit took place on 24 April 2024, organised in collaboration with Cornerstone Research and the European University Institute’s Centre for a Digital Society. Policymakers, technological innovators,…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The AI Act was first proposed in April 2021. Since then, there have been around 135,000 posts on the topic,3 with activity peaking in June 2023, when the European Parliament adopted a “compromise” text, and in December 2023,…
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In this article from The Threshold, the authors recap a panel on theories of labor harm in mergers, sponsored by the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Law Practice Products & Services, Mergers & Acquisitions
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) expanded its enforcement activity to the highest level since 2017, according to a new report released today by Cornerstone Research. Monetary penalties imposed by the PCAOB…
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Total value of settled accounting cases also increased in 2023 -
A new report released by Cornerstone Research shows an increase of nearly 10% in the number of securities class action filings involving accounting allegations…
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/ Civil Procedure, Securities Law
While the number of settlements in 2023 declined by more than 20% from 2022, 2023 total settlement dollars were roughly the same as in 2022…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Securities Law
Insights and Findings -
Continuing an increase observed in 2022, the size of settled cases in 2023 (measured by the median settlement amount) reached the highest level in over a decade. This occurred despite a decline in…
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/ Civil Procedure, Securities Law
