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Precious Metals Fraud Case Invites Challenges to CFTC's Antifraud Authority

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On July 21, 2025, in Commodity Futures Trading Commission et al. v. TMTE Inc et al., a Texas district court denied summary judgment to both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and two individual defendants in a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Reminder: Prepare for EDGAR Next

On September 27, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted amendments to Regulation S-T, resulting in major changes to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) System for SEC...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

SEC Enforcement in the Second Quarter of 2025

In May 2025, we summarized the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Enforcement activity during the first quarter of the new presidential administration. With the second quarter now concluded, and Paul...more

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2024 Securities Litigation Year in Review

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Securities class action case filings remained flat in 2024, with 229 filings equaling the number of new cases filed in 2023. The number of filings in 2024 tied with 2023 for the highest number of filings since 2020. The...more

Cornerstone Research

Securities Class Action Filings Increase for Second Consecutive Year in 2024

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AI-related filings more than double and 1933 Act filings continue to decline. The number of securities class action filings increased for the second consecutive year in 2024, with artificial intelligence (AI)-related...more

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Raids by Asia-Pacific Enforcers Are on the Rise: A Guide to Being Prepared for When the Enforcer Comes Knocking

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The Development: After an interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities across the Asia-Pacific region have fully revived dawn raids....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Life Sciences Snapshot – A Quarterly Report on Financing Trends – Q1 2023

This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q4 2022 include: • Deal value reached $7.1 billion in Q4 across 392 deals, bringing the 2022 annual total to $38.0 billion...more

King & Spalding

2023 M&A Outlook: Recapping Key Takeaways from Dealmaking in 2022 and Navigating New Challenges

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Coming off record-setting levels in 2021, M&A deal activity cooled in the second half of 2022. A multitude of factors – including soaring inflation, steadily rising interest rates and the higher cost of financing,...more

White & Case LLP

Repricing Underwater Options

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In this time of market volatility, White & Case LLP partners Colin Diamond (Chair of US Public Company Advisory) and Henrik Patel (Global Head of Employment, Compensation and Benefits) address the securities law, tax and...more

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NFTs: U.S., EU, and UK Key Copyright Considerations

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NFTs are verifiable cryptographic tokens, which can act as a form of digital receipt. NFTs can also be used to evidence the authenticity, ownership, and provenance of real-world items, such as artwork and real property, or...more

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SEC Threatens to Slap SPACs

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The use of SPACs has reached unprecedented levels, but recent pronouncements from the SEC may signal heightened enforcement and litigation risk for SPACs, as well as their sponsors, officers and directors, and auditors. The...more

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SEC Approves NYSE Rules Allowing Companies to Raise Money in Registered Direct Offerings

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved New York Stock Exchange rule changes that will grant the exchange discretion to allow companies to raise money by selling common shares in registered direct offerings,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Securities and Other Shareholder Litigation in the Wake of COVID-19

The current bear market began only a month ago and the securities plaintiffs’ bar wasted no time bringing its first set of actions. The stock market decline caused by COVID-19 has led to economic conditions this country has...more

The Volkov Law Group

Delaware Court Increases Scrutiny of Corporate Board Oversight and Monitoring of Compliance Programs

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On October 1, 2019, in In re Clovis Oncology, Inc. Derivative Litigation, a Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims under the Caremark decision against individual directors for failing to...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Delaware Chancery Court’s Columbia Pipeline and Saba Software Decisions: Lessons beyond Corwin

Two recent decisions from the Delaware Court of Chancery faithfully apply the Delaware Supreme Court’s holding in Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC. No surprise there. Corwin held that when “a transaction not subject to...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Commercial Division Dismisses Claim Against Major Chinese Securities Firm Due to Lack of Personal Jurisdiction

In Lantau Holdings, Ltd. v. Orient Equal International Grp., No. 653920/2016, 2017 BL 77469 (Sup. Ct. Mar. 6, 2017), Judge Anil C. Singh of the New York County Commercial Division dismissed several claims by the plaintiff,...more

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A ‘Most Daring Act’ and the SQM FCPA Enforcement Action – Part I

A most “daring act” seems to be a good way to introduce a multi-part look at the recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving the Chilean chemicals and mining company Sociedad Química y Minera de...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Supreme Court May Review Whether Regulatory Enforcement Actions Seeking Disgorgement are Subject to a Five-Year Statute of...

Federal regulatory agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), have the authority to impose...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"SEC Disclosure Brexit Trends"

Three months after the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union, the timing and scope of Brexit remain unclear. Until such details are determined with specificity, there is and will continue to be increased economic...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2016"

In this edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the Sixth Circuit's decision to allow injury-in-fact to be established by alleging a "substantial risk of harm" in a data breach case, New York state's...more

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Cornerstone Report Describes Securities Class Action Litigation Shift Toward West Coast and Smaller Public Companies

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Recently, Cornerstone Research, an economic and financial consultancy, released its mid-year report on federal securities class action filings. Cornerstone reported that 85 of these lawsuits were filed in the first half of...more

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