10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending March 15, 2025
Episode 286 -- Matt Stankiewicz on the Ripple Decision and Celsius CEO Indictment
Blue Sky Laws: Defending State-Level Securities Violations
The Justice Insiders: The Administrative State is Not Your Friend - A Conversation with Professor Richard Epstein
Four Decision Points in SEC Securities Investigations
Crypto Enforcement Is Here, and Always Has Been
Cryptocurrency: The Regulator’s Perspective
Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Regulatory and Enforcement Update
Section 12(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 imposes liability on sellers of securities who violate that Act's registration and prospectus delivery requirements. Because the statute refers to sellers, it seems unlikely...more
On July 29, 2024, Judge Trina L. Thompson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action brought by investors against a financial...more
Last summer, bankers and the lawyers who advise them breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a U.S. District Court's opinion that notes in a bank syndicated loan were not...more
Yesterday, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation warned investors that an "entity calling itself “Hartman Cain & Associates,” which represents itself as a law firm based in California, and operates...more
On October 4, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Martin Estrada announced the formation of a new task force, the Corporate and Securities Fraud Strike Force....more
A recent California district court addressed the question of whether, for insurance coverage purposes, a SOX whistleblower claim is a “securities claim,” and answered that question in the affirmative. Skye Bioscience v....more
On June 27, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) issued a desist and refrain order against a digital asset trading platform and two of its promoters for allegedly selling unqualified...more
On January 26, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced that it entered into a $22.5 million settlement agreement with a Cayman Islands digital asset firm to resolve a securities...more
On December 2, 2021, Judge Cormac J. Carney of the United Stated District Court for the Central District of California denied, in substantial part, a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against an electric...more
Semper Midas Fund, Ltd was formed for to invest primarily in mortgage-related instruments. Five months after investing over $300,000 in the fund, the Alan Kalin was told that that the fund had lost over 50% of its value. ...more
Section 25400(d) of the California Corporations Code declares it is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, in this state...more
California's Corporate Securities Law of 1968 makes offers it unlawful for any person to offer or sell a security in any nonissuer transaction unless it is qualified or exempt (or not subject to) qualification. Cal. Corp....more
The California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 declares it unlawful for any person to offer or sell in this state any security in an issuer, nonissuer, or reorganization transaction unless the sale has been qualified or is...more