Episode 286 -- Matt Stankiewicz on the Ripple Decision and Celsius CEO Indictment
Blue Sky Laws: Defending State-Level Securities Violations
The Justice Insiders: The Administrative State is Not Your Friend - A Conversation with Professor Richard Epstein
Four Decision Points in SEC Securities Investigations
Crypto Enforcement Is Here, and Always Has Been
Cryptocurrency: The Regulator’s Perspective
Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Regulatory and Enforcement Update
Last summer, bankers and the lawyers who advise them breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a U.S. District Court's opinion that notes in a bank syndicated loan were not...more
Federal Reserve Hints at Government-Backed Cryptocurrency; Third Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Securities Fraud Class Action Against Shutterfly Inc. Regarding Allegedly Misleading Financial Projections; Ninth Circuit Holds...more
Section 25400(d) of the California Corporations Code declares it is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, in this state...more
California's Corporate Securities Law of 1968 makes offers it unlawful for any person to offer or sell a security in any nonissuer transaction unless it is qualified or exempt (or not subject to) qualification. Cal. Corp....more
The California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 declares it unlawful for any person to offer or sell in this state any security in an issuer, nonissuer, or reorganization transaction unless the sale has been qualified or is...more
Assembly Member Al Muratsuchi recently introduced a bill, AB 2069, that would grant courts the discretion to award treble damages for violations of the qualification requirements of the Corporate Securities Law of...more
Section 12(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 covers two types of civil liability. Section 12(a)(1) concerns violations of Section 5 which imposes registration and prospectus delivery requirements on the offer and sale of...more
Yesterday’s post concerned the Court of Appeal’s decision in People v. Black, 2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 130 (Cal. App. 6th Dist. Feb. 16, 2017). The case involved the criminal prosecution of an individual for making false...more