Financial Institutions, Securities Fraud, Fiduciary Duty

SEC Speaks 2025: Key Takeaways from Division of Enforcement Panels

Ropes & Gray LLP on 5/27/2025

The SEC’s Division of Enforcement intends to remain a “cop on the beat,” and will refocus on traditional core enforcement areas, such as insider trading, accounting and disclosure fraud, market manipulation, and breaches of...more

2023 Securities Litigation Year in Review

Jones Day on 2/28/2024

During 2023, securities lawsuit filings rose for the first time in four years. Settlements declined last year; there were nine mega-settlements of more than $100 million, including a $1 billion settlement. Case filings...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - December 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/7/2018

This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between September 2018 and October 2018. ...more

Investment Management Update

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/27/2016

Investment Adviser AXA Wins Excessive Fee Trial - A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled in favor of AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company (AXA Equitable) and its wholly owned subsidiary, AXA Equitable Funds Management...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 7.7.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/7/2016

Disgraced Wall Street scion Andrew Casperson has pleaded guilty to federal wire and security fraud charges related to his Ponzi-like scheme in which he bilked nearly $40 million from friends and a private foundation....more

SEC ALJ Dismisses Case: Inside-Info Trades, But No Tipper Benefit

Burr & Forman on 9/16/2015

An SEC administrative law judge (“ALJ”) found that former Wells Fargo trader Joseph Ruggieri traded on material nonpublic information tipped him by former analyst Greg Bolan, but dismissed the insider-trading charges against...more