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White Collar Quarterly Report - August 2024

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In 2023, the number of federal corporate prosecutions remained far below the 25-year average after two consecutive years of increases. ..The DOJ’s Fraud Section secured just $690 million in penalties across eight...more

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Need a Wall Street Whistleblower Attorney? Your Questions, Answered

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People who work on Wall Street come into contact with important information all the time. Sometimes, though, that information indicates that a major corporation or company is breaking the law. If this happens to you, you have...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Public Companies Quarterly Update (Q1 2024)

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Welcome to Saul Ewing’s Public Companies Quarterly Update series. Our intent is to, on a quarterly basis, highlight important legal developments of which we think public companies should be aware. This edition is related to...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Insider Trading in Physical Commodities

On December 14, 2023, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Fraud Section announced the settlement of insider trading fraud charges and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”)...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The South Sea Bubble and Failure of Corruption to Secure Long Term Growth

Spikes in sales in high-risk countries do not translate into sustained growth and without an effective compliance program in place your company may actually lose money....more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

A Primer for In-House Counsel: Corporate and Financial Crimes, Part 1: : Criminal Law 101

What Statutes Set Out Criminal Offences in Canada? Canada’s criminal law is set out in the Criminal Code. The Criminal Code is made by Parliament and applies equally in every province and territory. The Criminal Code...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 9.27.16

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We learned yesterday that Twitter’s shopping itself around for a buyer. It’s facing one big complication, though—the sizeable amount of stock Twitter has doled out to its employees over the years. Last year, for example,...more

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OSC Affirms Breadth of Inter-Jurisdictional Enforcement Power, Limits on Sanctions in Conrad Black Case

The recent decision in Re Conrad M. Black et al. illustrates how the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) will use its inter-jurisdictional enforcement authority to impose sanctions relating to conduct in other jurisdictions...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

California Lawyer 2015 Roundtable Series: White-Collar Defense

The latest developments in white-collar criminal law include a gamechanging decision on insider trading, new sentencing guidelines for fraud convictions, more options for filing charges under the bank fraud statutes, and a...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

This Week In Securities Litigation (Week ending May 16, 2014)

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The Commission got split decisions in court this week. It prevailed in one high profile trial, obtaining a jury verdict in its favor. It lost a significant summary judgment motion regarding the statute of limitations...more

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Three Company Founders Settle SEC Insider Trading Case

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Most insider trading cases center on news about a corporate event such as an acquisition or an earnings announcement that has not become public. In SEC v. Lawson, Civil Action No. 3:14-cv-02157 (N.D. Cal. Filed May 12, 2014)...more

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This Week In Securities Litigation (The week ending January 24, 2014)

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The insider trading trial of former SAC Capital employee Matthew Martoma continued this week. The SEC filed one new administrative proceeding this week as Washington, D.C. and much of the East coast was blanketed with snow...more

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The SEC: The Future Path of Enforcement (Conclusion)

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Parts I and II of this series looked back at select cases brought by the Commission during 2013. Part III considered the projected path of SEC Enforcement based on remarks by members of the Commission and new initiatives....more

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Financial Fraud Law Report: October 2013 - Insider Trading in Mutual Funds: Do Traditional Theories Apply?

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A federal court of appeals recently held out the possibility that insider trading prohibitions — at least under the classic theory — do not apply to mutual fund redemptions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh...more

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Three Thoughts about Steve Cohen’s Failure-to-Supervise Case

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Stanley Sporkin — former SEC Enforcement Director, CIA general counsel, and federal judge – likes to say that an SEC staff attorney ought to be just as happy closing an investigation as one is bringing a public enforcement...more

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