PLI's inSecurities Podcast - Opening the Securities Enforcement Answer Book
PLI's inSecurities Podcast: A View From the Inside
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance Challenges in India
Nota Bene Episode 83: Fraud Enforcement and Policing COVID Relief: What Businesses Need to Know with Chuck Kreindler
COVID-19 Videocast Series – Episode 2: Conversations from Our Public Tech Company Virtual Situation Room
Podcast: Private Fund Regulatory Update: Post-U.S. Government Shutdown
Podcast: Credit Funds: What Managers Need to Know and Practical Tips to Avoid Insider Trading Risks
WORD OF THE DAY® – Big Boy Letter
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. 15 -- United States v. Newman (Part 2)
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. 13 -- The Barry Switzer Story
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. 14 -- United States v. Newman (Part 1)
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. XII -- The Innocent Intermediary
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. XI -- Multi-level Tipping
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. X -- Tipping (pre-Newman)
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. VIII — Negligence?
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series Vol. VII -- Misappropriation Theory (Part the Third)
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. V — Misappropriation Theory
Investment Management Update - January 2015
Insider Trading News - Ralph Siciliano discusses US v. Newman
Weekly Brief: Rakoff Orders Gupta To Pay Goldman Sachs' Legal Fees
On December 13, 2021, U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton, of the Eastern District of Virginia, dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC’s”) insider trading action against Christopher Clark before the...more
We regularly have conversations with our clients about whether particular non-public information is "material," who at the company knows about such information and whether certain individuals should be allowed to engage in...more
On September 7, 2015, a new study on the “8-K trading gap” conducted by researchers at Harvard and Columbia law schools was released. The “8-K trading gap” refers to the four business day period before SEC reporting...more
The Yates Memo, refocusing DOJ criminal and civil corporate investigations, continues to be the critical topic of discussion this week. The Memo, discussed here, directs that individuals be the focus of the inquiry from the...more
Recent decisions by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Delaware Court of Chancery have raised important issues regarding fee advancement bylaws or policies of Delaware corporations. Please see full...more
Jing Wang, a former Qualcomm Inc. Executive Vice President began by constructing a cover-up. Then he engaged in insider trading, using inside information taken from his employer. The scheme failed. Mr. Wang has been sentenced...more
The acquisition of Foundry Networks, Inc., a networking hardware company, by Brocade Communications System, Inc., a technology company specializing in data and storage networking products, announced on July 21, 2008, has...more
The SEC brought an insider trading case against a senior corporate official and a chain of tippes that starts with his brother-in-law broker who then tipped his friend, another broker. Others, not named as defendants, were...more
David Riley, formerly the Chief Information Officer of Foundry Networks, Inc. was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison and pay a $50,000 fine based on insider trading charges. He was found guilty by a jury following a 13...more
Insider trading prosecutions can be difficult. Because of the haphazard and tortuous growth of insider trading law itself, the prosecutions involve proving lots of different pesky elements. Fiduciary duties, materiality,...more
In This Issue: - NFA Updates BASIC to Assist With Bylaw 1101 Diligence on Delegating CPOs - Second Circuit Refuses to Rehear Groundbreaking Insider Trading Case - SEC Secures Victory on Fraud Allegations...more
The SEC named ratings giant Standard & Poor’s in three actions this week and one of its senior executives in another. The firm settled all three actions, admitting to a series of facts but not violations of the law in one...more
The SEC filed a series of actions in the last two weeks which included a break for the Thanksgiving holiday. One action focused on a Swiss investment firm giving advise in the U.S. without registering with the Commission....more
The holidays are in full swing, and now is the perfect time for executives to renew their determination to protect family and friends by not sharing work secrets with them, even indirectly or obliquely. Each year,...more
The SEC and the DOJ have waged an aggressive battle against insider trading for years, resulting in a string of courtroom victories, guilty pleas and settlements as well as significant sanctions which are supposed to deter...more
Contents - FDIC filing more suits against officers and directors of failed financial institutions - Third Circuit upholds 12-year prison sentence for former BigLaw associate - Health care executives...more