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Ropes & Gray LLP

SEC Speaks 2025: Key Takeaways from Division of Enforcement Panels

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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

Freiberger Haber LLP

Enforcement News: Founder of Crypto Asset and Foreign Exchange Trading Company Charged with Orchestrating a Ponzi-Like Fraudulent...

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The allure of guaranteed profits from sophisticated crypto asset and foreign exchange trading served as the underlying predicate for the claims asserted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) against Ramil Palafox...more

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From Snake Oil to Investment Scams: How the Accomplice Became the Rogue Online Influencer

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The rise of influencer scams, akin to the modern day snake oil salesman, highlights the urgent need for stronger regulatory oversight and increased consumer awareness to combat misinformation and protect the public. In...more

A&O Shearman

SEC Charges Founder & Associates With Fraud For Allegedly Running A Nearly $200M Ponzi-like Crypto Investment Scheme

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On April 22, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil enforcement action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against an individual and several related parties, alleging a...more

The Volkov Law Group

DOJ Releases Cryptocurrency Guidance and Enforcement Framework (Part I of II)

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Earlier this month, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), through its Cyber Digital Task Force (hereinafter the “Task Force”), published its 83-page crypto guidance report titled “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework.”...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Weeks - July 2019 #4

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission brought separate enforcement actions against the portfolio manager of a hedge fund for mismarking valuations of interest rate swaps in order...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cross-Border Investigations Update - January 2019

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including DOJ guidance on the use of corporate monitors in criminal...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

China Shuts Down ICO Market

For the past few months, issuers of token sales or “initial coin offerings” (ICOs) have known that they were, to some extent, sailing in unchartered waters. Those waters have just gotten a bit murkier with an announcement by...more

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