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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What Private Equity Firms Need to Know About the Ongoing SEC Investigation of “Off-Channel” Communications

Over the last several years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has been laser-focused on the use of so-called “off-channel communications” in the financial services industry. On the theory that employees’ use of...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - The Mar-a-Lago Trump Indictment

In this episode, Jeff Jacobovitz, AGG trial attorney and chair of the firm’s Antitrust group, examines the indictment of former President Donald Trump concerning the mishandling of records at Mar-a-Lago with Cynthia Alksne, a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SEC Off-Channel Communications Sweep

Over the last several years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) have been laser-focused on the use of so called “off-channel communications” in the...more

Butler Snow LLP

Responding to an Investigative Subpoena Duces Tecum: Important First Steps for the Corporate Client

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For those of us in the practice who are former (in some cases previously career) prosecutors, we sometimes have to fight the inclination to take for granted some basic – and even critical – steps which companies must take...more

K&L Gates LLP

Chancery Court Reaffirms Delaware Policy of Broad Section 220 Stockholder Inspection Rights

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In Lebanon County Employees’ Retirement Fund and Teamsters Local 443 Health Services & Insurance Plan v. AmerisourceBergen Corp., C.A. No 2019-0527-JTL (Del. Ch. Jan. 13, 2020), the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”)...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging The Week - September 2019 #2

An interdealer broker agreed to pay a fine of US $13 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to resolve charges that it failed to supervise brokers on a swaps desk that allegedly made numerous false or misleading...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Delaware Courts Address Production of Emails and Other Electronically Stored Information In Response to Section 220 Demands

UPDATE:  On August 5, 2020, the Delaware Supreme Court summarily affirmed the judgment of the Court of Chancery “on the basis of and for the reasons stated in its January 25, 2019 opinion.” Section 220 of the Delaware...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - September 2018

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - Petrobras Settles with U.S. Authorities Over Alleged FCPA Violations - On September 27, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more

King & Spalding

Delaware Supreme Court Extends Shareholder Books and Records Inspection Rights to Privileged Internal Investigation Documents

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A recent decision of the Delaware Supreme Court approved granting shareholders the right to inspect privileged and confidential internal investigation materials upon showing “good cause.” Directors and general counsels should...more

Brooks Pierce

SEC Staff Seeking Hard Drives, Etc. (but without authority)

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Last month brought us this story from Reuters, in which we learned that the SEC “has become more aggressive in seeking full hard drives from the companies and individuals it investigates, startling defense lawyers who...more

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