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King & Spalding

When Mentors and Loved Ones Are Dangerous: Avoid Insider Trading Charges with a 2025 New Year's Resolution

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It happens all the time: a public company employee seeks career advice from a mentor, spouse, or friend with whom they have a longstanding relationship of trust and confidence. It could be part of a regular check-in, or it...more

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Insights – June 2023

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This edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights looks at the latest trends in shareholder activism, the scrutiny companies are facing over their ESG disclosures and employment considerations for using AI in the workplace, among...more

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Shadow Trading: The SEC’s New Angle on Illegal Insider Trading

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Everyone knows that employees cannot buy or sell securities while in possession of material nonpublic information. However, when we think about material non-public information, we usually think in terms of information...more

A&O Shearman

California District Court Allows Novel SEC Insider Trading Theory To Proceed

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On January 14, 2022, Judge William Orrick of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order denying a former biopharmaceutical company executive’s motion to dismiss and allowing the...more

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When Do M+A Discussions Constitute MNPI? Recent SEC Guidance May Shed Some Light

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Last month, the SEC announced that a public company had agreed to pay a $20 million penalty to resolve charges related to its repurchase of stock while supposedly in possession of material, non-public information (“MNPI”)...more

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Tokyo Dispute Resolution & Crisis Management Newsletter – June 2020 - Quarantine Your Sensitive Business Information

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INTRODUCTION - If you are reading this during the first half of 2020, you’re probably reading it from somewhere in your own home — and probably near the friends and loved ones with whom you’re living in close quarters...more

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Stockholders' Complaint Survives Chancery's 'Corwin' Analysis

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After a series of successful applications of the Corwin doctrine in Delaware's Court of Chancery, a plaintiff has finally survived a motion to dismiss where Corwin was applied. In In re Saba Software Stockholder Litigation,...more

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Bass, Berry & Sims Releases Securities & Shareholder Litigation 2017: A Look Ahead

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Bass, Berry & Sims PLC announces the release of its annual "Securities & Shareholder Litigation 2017: A Look Ahead," a high-level report that covers recent developments and offers best practices for the year ahead. The newly...more

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SEC and DOJ Charge Board Member with Trading on Inside Information . . . During a Board Meeting

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On Friday, the SEC filed a complaint against James C. Cope, a former member of the Executive Committee of Pinnacle Financial Partners’ (“PFP”) board of directors, alleging that he engaged in insider trading. The same day,...more

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