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SEC successful in rare application of Section 1103 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2008

On April 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the successful completion of its efforts to prevent a $29.5 million severance package from being paid to the former CEO of Gemstar-TV Guide International, Henry C. Yuen, who committed securities fraud prior to leaving Gemstar

The Brocade trial: the prosecution rests

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 5 2007

The prosecution in the first criminal trial arising out the widespread corporate practice of stock options backdating concluded its case on Monday, July 2, 2007

Delaware speaks on timing of stock option grants and refuses to dismiss derivative complaint alleging “spring loading”

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 9 2007

Issued on the same day as Ryan v. Gifford, the Delaware Court of Chancery handed down its decision in In re Tyson Foods, Inc. Consolidated Shareholder Litigation, 919 A.2d 563 (Del. Ch. 2007

$117.5 million settlement in stock options backdating case

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 16 2007

According to various media reports, a settlement in principle has been reached in a stock options backdating involving Mercury Interactive Corporation, a business software company acquired by Hewlett-Packard last year

Options backdating complaint dismissed with prejudice by California District Court

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2007

A California company represented by Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP scored a first-round knockout victory when a federal district judge in Los Angeles dismissedwith prejudicea class action complaint alleging that it and several of its senior officers and directors had illegally "backdated" stock option grants

The person of the year: the whistleblower

  • LeClairRyan
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2013

In keeping with "tradition" (even if it is a one-year tradition), I like to start out the year looking back on the person of the year in 2012. As we look

Brocade stock options backdating criminal trial: Reyes sentenced to 21 months in prison

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 16 2008

Today, former Brocade CEO Greg Reyes was sentenced to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay a $15 million fine in the first criminal trial to arise out of the stock options backdating scandal

SEC releases report evaluating whistleblower program

  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 11 2013

The SEC OIG recently released a report on the Dodd-Frank whistleblower program. The report, which describes in detail the internal process followed

New whistleblower compensation enacted for securities and FCPA disclosures

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 26 2010

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Act"), which contains sweeping reforms for the financial industry, including a program authorizing payments to whistleblowers for information related to violations of the securities laws

Whisleblowers granted bounties and protection from SEC and CFTC in US financial reform law

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 21 2010

With the signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law this week, the US government quietly introduced two parallel whisleblower programs that will provide powerful financial incentives for individuals to report suspected securities or commodities trading violations to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC

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