Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated and remanded a $93 million district court judgment entered against a broker-dealer and investment adviser for allegedly inadequate disclosures of...more
The government's focus on clawbacks is at a fever pitch. At the Practicing Law Institute's SEC Speaks conference earlier this month, senior officials within the SEC's Division of Enforcement emphasized the agency's increasing...more
In the famous case of Meinhard v Salmon, Justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote in lofty language that lawyers of maltreated business owners have loved to quote ever since that the duty of loyalty among closely-held business owners...more