4 Key Takeaways | Trade Secret Update 2024 Legal Developments and Trends
Trade Secret Case Unravels Unequal Fashion Partnership - Small designer Mrinalini accuses fashion giant Valentino of spying, stealing and worse. The Royal She - In high fashion, creative output is the whole game -...more
SEC Settles First-Of-Its-Kind $13m DeFi Tech Action; NASDAQ Board Diversity Rules Challenged in Fifth Circuit; Delaware Court of Chancery Declines to Enforce Contractual Limitations on Liability to Bar Contractual Fraud...more
Ninth Circuit Holds Loss Causation May Be Predicated on Information Potentially Available Under Freedom of Information Act; D.C. Circuit Upholds FINRA’s Permanent Ban of Broker Accused of Misconduct After Finding SCOTUS...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment, Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) filed an October 7th Complaint against Routh Wrecker Service, Inc. (“Routh”) stating it was seeking injunctive relief and to...more
On Aug. 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) charged Commonwealth Equity Services LLC, dba Commonwealth Financial Network (Commonwealth), a registered independent investment adviser to private clients (but not...more
Transfer agents can find themselves in a difficult position when it comes to removing restrictive legends on stock certificates. On the one hand, the Securities and Exchange Commission may take enforcement action against...more
The market for cryptocurrencies and the current wave of initial coin offerings (ICOs) that seek to raise capital for blockchain-based projects have enjoyed a swell of popularity in recent years. U.S. regulatory agencies and...more
It is easy to become complacent about Section 16 reporting. Sometimes it seems that the only people paying any attention to Forms 3, 4 and 5 are plaintiffs’ attorneys looking for short-swing profit transactions. Does the SEC...more
On July 5, 2016, investors filed a federal class action in the Southern District of New York alleging defendant banks had manipulated the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (SIBOR) “and/or” Singapore Swap Offer Rate (SOR)...more
On October 18, 2013, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“Commission”) approved a Stipulation and Consent Agreement between the Office of Enforcement (“Enforcement”) and Exelon Corporation (“Exelon”) to resolve an...more