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Reversals of Fraud Charges Highlight Difficulties in Bringing Market Manipulation Cases

WilmerHale on 8/5/2025

Establishing that criminal defendants engaged in market manipulation is extremely difficult, often due to the difficulty in establishing that the defendant created prices that did not reflect legitimate sources of supply or...more

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for November 2023

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 12/19/2023

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Second Circuit Limits Use of Confidential Government Agency Information as Basis for Securities Fraud Prosecutions

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/15/2023

On December 27, 2022, the Second Circuit called into question the government’s theory of insider trading of confidential government agency information, potentially undercutting the DOJ’s enforcement of various white-collar...more

Novel Enforcement for Novel Schemes: Emerging Trends in Securities Enforcement

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 3/10/2022

This was the main takeaway from the Securities Enforcement in the Biden Administration panel at the American Bar Association’s 37th National Institute on White Collar Crime, which included among its speakers Erin Schneider,...more

Enforcement appears as messages disappear: The perils of personal and ephemeral messaging

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 1/7/2022

On December 17, 2021, a financial institution agreed to pay $200 million in fines to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodities Futures Trading Commission for allowing employees to discuss business on their...more

SEC and DOJ Charge Former Executives of Private Company for Misrepresenting the Company’s Technology - A Reminder that Private...

Fenwick & West LLP on 2/21/2019

In a case reminiscent of last year’s blockbuster government actions against Theranos and its former executives, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have separately charged two former...more

Anti-Corruption Regulation Survey of 41 Countries 2017–2018

Jones Day on 4/18/2018

Welcome to the 2017-2018 edition of the Jones Day Anti-Corruption Regulation Survey. In 2017 and 2018 to date, there has continued to be an increasing awareness among multinational companies of the significance of...more

Reflections on the Hitachi FCPA Enforcement Action

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/30/2015

Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced resolution of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving the Hitachi Ltd (Hitachi). There were several interesting aspects to...more

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