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[Hybrid Event] Securities Lawyer Nightmares: 13 Mistakes that Keep Securities Lawyers Up at Night - October 13th, Dallas, TX

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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

Goodwin

SEC Publishes Sample Climate Change Comment Letter

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In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a sample comment letter on climate change disclosures; the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is conducting a review of brokerage firm...more

Cozen O'Connor

SEC Suspends Trading in 15 Public Companies for Suspicious Social Media & Trading Activity

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On February 26, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order that suspended the trading of securities in 15 OTC public companies due to questionable trading activity and social media promotions that the...more

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Litigation on Musk’s Tweets to Move Forward

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The Unites States District Court for the Northern District of California recently found that 10b-5 litigation regarding Elon Musk’s tweets could move forward after reviewing a motion to dismiss in In Re Tesla Inc. Securities...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.11.2019 | Top Story: Twitter Screed Prompts Investigation of Apple Card Gender Discrimination

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Here’s about as 2019 as we can get in the financial world (with a healthy dose of 1950s-era gender discrimination for good measure): a series of tweets from tech entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson alleging gender...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Facebook’s settlements with the Federal Government - Key takeaways for all companies to consider

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On July 24, 2019, both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced landmark settlements with Facebook. The agreements were significant not only because of the hefty fines...more

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Facebook: Hypothetical Risk Factors are Insufficient Disclosure When the Risk has Occurred

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The SEC announced charges against Facebook Inc. for making misleading disclosures regarding the risk of misuse of Facebook user data.  According to the SEC, for more than two years, Facebook’s public disclosures presented the...more

K&L Gates LLP

Digital Crisis PR: Taking the Stress Out of Distressed Companies

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Distressed businesses can be particularly vulnerable to digital crises as news about their financial health can spread quickly on the internet. In this episode, Elisa D’Amico and Desiree Moore join bankruptcy partner Jeff...more

King & Spalding

To Tweet Or Not To Tweet? Lessons In Careful Use Of Social Media

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We live in a social media age where even foreign policy is announced via Twitter with ease and speed. But recent events serve as a reminder to public companies that the federal securities laws operate as an important...more

Burr & Forman

Tweet Suit

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So maybe it’s not such a good idea for a volatile, impulsive chief executive to use his personal Twitter account to announce major policy shifts. No, no – not that one....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SNAP IPO Debuts On NYSE

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SNAP Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, went public yesterday with a valuation of approximately $33.4 billion. The Company raised $3.4 billion at $17 per share, and is now trading well above the IPO price. While SNAP has...more

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A Deep Dive into Privacy/Security Disclosures in Snap’s S-1

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Last week, Snap Inc. (“Snap” or the “Company”) – the parent company of the wildly popular app Snapchat (“Snapchat” or the “App”) – became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange in the biggest tech IPO since...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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RBS has agreed to pay $85 million to the CFTC to resolve allegations that its traders “manipulated the ISDAfix benchmark rate over a period of five years to benefit the bank’s derivatives positions”....more

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Tesla, SolarCity and Social Media

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Tesla, in an offer to acquire SolarCity, appears to be the first to announce a major proposed acquisition by a blog post. Since an 8-K was also filed, it can’t be sole proof that social media is a recognized distribution...more

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Second Circuit: Facebook Shareholders Lack Standing for Derivative Suits Challenging Pre-IPO Statements

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Earlier this week, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opinion reinforced that federal courts take standing in derivative actions quite seriously, particular when the alleged director misconduct predated the IPO....more

Blank Rome LLP

And The Survey Says . . . GCs Need More Cybersecurity And Social Media Training

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Becoming better versed in issues surrounding cybersecurity and social media risk would greatly benefit general counsel at publicly traded companies, according to a recent survey of executive leadership....more

Burns & Levinson LLP

SEC Gives Guidance on Use of Social Media under Regulation FD

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Over the last several months, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has provided the public with two new interpretive guides regarding the use of social media by public companies, investment companies and their...more

Morgan Lewis

SEC Issues Guidance on Social Media and Regulation FD

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Public companies are encouraged to rigorously analyze SEC guidance prior to disseminating material information via social media....more

Smith Anderson

SEC Report Opens Door to Use of Social Media

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On April 2, 2013, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a Report of Investigation (the “Social Media Report”) clarifying that a company subject to Regulation Fair Disclosure (“Regulation FD”) may use...more

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SEC Addresses Use of Social Media for Public Company Disclosures

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On April 2, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Report of Investigation that directly addresses the application of Regulation FD to disclosures made through social media channels such as Facebook and...more

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Lessons Learned in 2012

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As one calendar year ends and the next begins, it is natural to look back to take an inventory of lessons learned and to look forward in an attempt to implement such lessons. The year 2012 certainly had its fair share of...more

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