Join Vinson & Elkins securities lawyers to discuss the 13 mistakes that keep us up at night. Topics include missed 8-Ks, CEO tweets, website mismanagement, voting disclosure and counting, registration statement overissuances,...more
In a monumental decision that will likely have substantial ramifications for crypto industry developers, securities practitioners, and millions of investors and token purchasers alike, on July 13, 2023, the U.S. District...more
On September 20, 2021, in Pirani v. Slack Technologies, Inc., a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that investors who purchase stock in a “direct listing”—in which pre-existing shares are...more
One of the most significant differences between bringing a securities lawsuit in state versus federal court is the application of the mandatory discovery stay set forth in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (the...more
Many of us have previously heard the expression that there is a fine line between fact and fiction. In securities law that holds especially true where companies that risk walking the “fine line” in their registration...more
On April 21, 2020, Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied defendants’ motion to dismiss a securities class action complaint brought by a shareholder of Slack...more
This issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between October 2019 and January 2020. ...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini analyzed this putative class action brought against Match Group for alleged violations of the Securities Act of 1933 related to the company’s 2015 initial public offering (IPO)....more
The SEC announced that Equidate Inc. agreed to settle charges that it violated federal securities laws by failing to register security-based swaps that were offered and sold online to shareholders in pre-IPO companies....more