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Allen Matkins

SEC Alleges Tipper Received Or Expected A Benefit, But Fails To Identify The Benefit

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In Dirks v. SEC, 463 U.S. 646 (1983), the United States Supreme Court found that a tippee may be liable for trading on the basis of material, nonpublic information if he or she knows that the tipper disclosed inside...more

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New SDNY Case Illustrates Broad Reach of Prosecutors’ Power to Pursue Insider Trading Claims Despite Personal Benefit Requirement

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A decision last week from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York illustrates the broad reach of prosecutors and regulators in pursuing recipients of insider trading tips, despite the case-law...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Insider Trading for Dummies: Judge Rakoff Tries to Simplify the Law

A lot of ink has been spilled over the crime of insider trading, which – in the view of U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff – “is a straightforward concept that some courts have managed to complicate.” In his recent decision in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Hello, Newman. A Second Circuit Panel Revives U.S. v. Newman’s Personal Benefit Test, Maybe.

On June 25, 2018, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a revised opinion in United States v. Martoma, No. 14-3599, Dkt No. 226. (2d Cir. Jun. 25, 2018) (“Martoma”). While the outcome for Matthew Martoma does not...more

BakerHostetler

Newman Appears to Narrowly Survive the Second Circuit's Rehearing of Martoma

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On June 25, 2018, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reaffirmed the insider trading conviction of a hedge fund portfolio manager in United States v. Martoma on different grounds from...more

Carlton Fields

Second Circuit Martoma Ruling, Affirming Tippee’s Conviction, Backtracks on Newman, and Adds Yet More Uncertainty to Ever-Evolving...

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Last week's dueling Second Circuit opinions in United States v. Martoma – Chief Judge Katzman’s 37-page majority opinion and Judge Pooler vigorous 44-page dissent – once again transformed insider trading law. In the aftermath...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Newman’s “Meaningfully Close Personal Relationship” Requirement No Longer Good Law

A divided Second Circuit panel (Katzmann, Pooler (dissenting), Chin) on Wednesday upheld the insider trading conviction of former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma. Confronting its precedent in United States v....more

Morgan Lewis

The Martoma Decision: The Second Circuit Tackles Insider Trading Post-Salman

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The decision could alter the landscape of tipping liability. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued another landmark insider trading opinion on August 23. In United States v. Martoma, the Second Circuit...more

Burr & Forman

Martoma: Second Circuit Abrogates Newman, Broadens Dirks

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A Second Circuit Panel held that the Supreme Court’s Salman decision abrogated the Circuit’s Newman requirement of a “close personal relationship” under the “gift theory” of insider-trading; the dissent claims the Panel...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Supreme Court 2016-17 Recap

The politics surrounding the appointment of a new justice to the U.S. Supreme Court dominated the news cycle during the 2016-17 term, but the Court’s decisions themselves have been far from controversial. As the term draws to...more

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