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
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
Elon Musk’s contentious relationship with the Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to become even more complicated as a result of Mr. Musk’s filings with the Commission to report his recent purchases of shares in...more
Sometimes it turns out that an authorized speaker for your public company (e.g., CEO, CFO, or head of investor relations) has selectively shared nonpublic information with analysts or investors that he or she thought was...more
The SEC announced settled charges against formerly publicly-traded Leaf Group Ltd. for failing to adequately evaluate and disclose in its annual proxy statement the lack of independence of a director and a board committee as...more
COVID-related securities claims continue to rattle the marketplace. On December 7, a leading plaintiffs firm announced an investigation on behalf of shareholders of The Cheesecake Factory Inc., just days after the SEC...more
Summary - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced earlier this month it settled charges against a corporate issuer of registered securities for misleading disclosures about the impact of the COVID-19...more
In First Ever SEC Sanction for Allegedly Misleading COVID Related Disclosures, Cheesecake Factory Pays $125,000 Civil Penalty; New York State Appellate Court Dismisses Putative Securities Act Class Action on Merits for First...more
On December 4, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a settlement with the Cheesecake Factory Inc. asserting that the company issued materially misleading disclosures about the risk that the COVID-19...more
Who Needs to Know - Publicly traded companies, specifically those whose business was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic....more
The SEC has brought its first enforcement action against a public company relating to disclosure of the financial effect of the pandemic. The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated, without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings,...more
On December 4, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had settled charges with The Cheesecake Factory for its allegedly false and misleading disclosures about the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on...more
In its first action against a public company for misleading investors about the financial effects of the pandemic, the SEC has announced settled charges against The Cheesecake Factory. In mid-March, the company, which...more
The SEC has just announced settled charges against The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated for making misleading disclosures about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations and financial condition. The SEC...more
Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. disclosed in its third-quarter 2017 Form 10-Q that, beginning in September 2017, Calumet’s implementation of its new enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system had resulted in...more
This past week, the House Financial Services Committee considered and passed a few bills that would, if passed by the House, result in changes to the securities laws. ...more
Regulation Fair Disclosure was passed in 2002 to fill what many saw as a regulatory gap – the selective disclosure of material non-public information by issuers. Essentially the Regulation – now known as Reg FD – requires a...more
On Aug. 20, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had charged public pharmaceutical company TherapeuticsMD, Inc. for violations of Regulation FD and Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act related to...more
2016 was an active year in securities litigation. In the first half of 2016 alone, plaintiffs filed 119 new federal class action securities cases. It was also a busy year for SEC enforcement proceedings, with a record 868...more