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Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: July 1, 2025

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more

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Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in SEC Disgorgement Case

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On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari in the case of Navellier & Associates, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This decision effectively upholds the lower courts’ rulings,...more

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SEC Briefs Disgorgement and Investor Harm in Navellier v. SEC

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In the recent Supreme Court case, Navellier & Associates, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the petitioners sought a writ of certiorari challenging the decisions of the lower courts regarding the scope of...more

Venable LLP

SEC Must Return $93 Million Penalty, First Circuit Says

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The First Circuit, in a closely watched securities case, reversed a $93 million summary judgment ruling for the Securities and Exchange Commission this April. ...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

First Circuit Questions Materiality in SEC's Case Against Commonwealth Equity Services

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On April 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated a summary judgment ruling in favor of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Commonwealth Equity Services, LLC, also known as Commonwealth...more

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First Circuit Reverses SEC Win in $93 Million Investment Adviser Disclosure Case

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The court rejects the SEC's per se materiality argument and requires proof of a causal connection between the defendant's allegedly inadequate disclosures and purported unlawful profits....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Question of the Week: How do you expect SEC exams and enforcement to evolve in 2025?

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As we head further into 2025, the landscape of SEC exams and enforcement is poised for significant shifts. How will the SEC adapt to emerging trends and evolving market dynamics? In the first issue of Beyond the Deal in 2025,...more

A&O Shearman

SEC Files Complaint Alleging Hedge Fund Manager Failed To Maintain And Enforce Adequate MNPI Policies And Procedures To Separate...

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On December 12, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a litigated complaint (the “Complaint”) in United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against a hedge fund manager (the “Firm”)...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - December 2024

Key Points - - During its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to provide important guidance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act’s (PSLRA’s) particularity requirement in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Potential Priorities for Trump SEC Chair Nominee, Paul Atkins

On Wednesday, Dec. 4, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Paul Atkins as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Atkins, who served as an SEC commissioner from 2002 to 2008...more

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Fifth Circuit Vacates SEC Private Fund Adviser Rules

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the new SEC regulation of private fund advisers exceeded the agency's statutory authority....more

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Fifth Circuit Rules SEC Exceeded Its Authority in Adopting Private Fund Advisers Rule

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On June 5, 2024, a three-judge panel in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission exceeded its statutory authority in adopting the so-called “Private Fund Advisers Rule” (or the...more

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Fifth Circuit Vacates Private Fund Adviser Rules

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “court”) held that the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) exceeded its statutory authority when it adopted the Private Fund Adviser Rules...more

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5th Circuit Strikes Down Private Fund Adviser Rules

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On June 5, 2024, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) vacated new rules applicable to advisers to private funds1 recently enacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These...more

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SEC Wins First “Shadow Trading” Trial

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On April 5, 2024, after an eight-day trial, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California returned a verdict for the Securities and Exchange Commission in its first “shadow trading” case after...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: March 1, 2024

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Settlement against Auditing Firm Serves as Reminder of Important Independence Rules

On February 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced that it settled an administrative proceeding against Lordstown Motors Corps’ former auditor, Clark Schaefer Hackett and Co. (CSH)—the same day that...more

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2024 Investment Adviser Regulatory and Compliance Annual Letter

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In 2024, investment advisers – those registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and those that file notices as exempt reporting advisers - will continue to feel the impact of the SEC’s recent rule...more

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SEC Charges Real Estate Fund Adviser with Misappropriating $35 Million and Later Manipulating the Market in a Fake Tender Offer to...

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Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought fraud charges against Jonathan Larmore for allegedly looting $35 million from real estate funds he advised. Larmore is a real estate investor, an investment adviser,...more

Bracewell LLP

What is AI Washing? The SEC’s Latest Target

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Is AI the new green? Recent comments by Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler suggest the regulator is primed to begin turning its enforcement efforts against so-called “AI washing,” presenting a new area of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The SEC’s Director of Enforcement Announces a New Paradigm for Assessing Compliance Efforts

On October 24, 2023, the Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Division, Gurbir S. Grewal, gave a keynote address to the New York City Bar Association’s 2023 Compliance Institute. This address,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Practical Guide to Interpreting the New SEC Private Fund Adviser Rules

On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) voted 3-2 to adopt a final set of rules and amendments under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (collectively, the Final Rules) that significantly expand...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Court Adopts SEC's New Unregistered Dealer Theory, Creates Risk of Disgorgement and Penalties for Anyone Trading...

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A broad array of financial market participants—mutual funds, private funds, insurers, pension funds, family offices, individuals, and more—may be at risk after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) secured summary...more

A&O Shearman

Ninth Circuit Holds That Complaint Sufficiently Alleged Company Was “Statutory Seller” Under Section 12(a)(2) Based On Social...

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On December 21, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and denied in part the dismissal of a purported class action suit against a real estate property management company (the...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: 2022 SEC Retrospective

2022 was a busy year for the SEC’s Enforcement Division. This 2022 Retrospective highlights some of the year’s notable cases, largest settlements, new and noteworthy theories, and court decisions worth remembering....more

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