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Woodruff Sawyer

Securities Class Actions 2024 Recap: An Uptick in Filings Plus Record-Breaking Settlements [Report]

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Woodruff Sawyer’s D&O Databox™ Year-End Report provides insights about securities class action activities, developments, and historical trends—sourced from Databox, our proprietary database and leading resource for securities...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

SEC Settlement Reminds Firms to Periodically Review Their Use of Models, Calculators and Tools When Making Client Recommendations

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On October 2, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced it had settled enforcement proceedings against Thrivent Investment Management, Inc. (“Thrivent”), a SEC dually-registered broker-dealer and...more

Alston & Bird

SEC Settlement Suggests the Agency’s Attempt to Regulate Cybersecurity Controls

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Does the R.R. Donnelley settlement mean heightened Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) involvement in regulating public companies’ cybersecurity policies and practices? Our Securities Litigation, Privacy, Cyber & Data...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

Cornerstone Research

SEC Enforcement of Cryptocurrency Reaches a New High

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More than 50% increase in SEC cryptocurrency-related enforcement actions in 2023 over 2022. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to view cryptocurrency-related enforcement as a top priority, bringing 46...more

McDermott Will & Emery

SEC Cracks Down on NFTs With First-Of-Its-Kind Enforcement Action

On August 28, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an enforcement action against Impact Theory, LLC, alleging that Impact Theory’s public sale of approximately $30 million in crypto assets violated...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Bank to pay $1 billion to settle investors’ compliance claims

Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York preliminarily approved a securities litigation settlement that would require a national bank to pay $1 billion to resolve class claims that it...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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Notable SEC Decisions: 2022 H1

Each year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) publishes its enforcement priorities – a reminder that, although the Division of Examinations (EXAMS) remains committed to monitoring compliance with (and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Yahoo! Data Breach Estimated to Cost Successor Company Net $47 Million

Altaba Inc., the successor company of Yahoo Inc., recently noted in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that after its settlement of consumer and shareholder suits relating to Yahoo’s data breach that...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

U.S. Financial Industry Developments - CFTC Proposes Rules to Simplify Process for Foreign Clearing Organizations to Obtain DCO Registration Exemption - On August 8, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Class Action Settlements, Cases Paralleled by SEC Up in 2015

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Cornerstone Research released a report on Securities Class Action Settlements, “Securities Class Action Settlements, 2015 Review and Analysis”. It records an increased number of settled securities class actions last year....more

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