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This week in securities litigation (week ending October 26, 2012)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 26 2012

The focus this week was on white collar criminal securities cases

NY AG charges Bank of New York Mellon with securities fraud

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 5 2011

The New York Attorney General added Martin Act securities fraud claims and other charges to a whistleblower complaint in taking over a suit against Bank New York Mellon

SEC settles suitability case tied to selling CDOs to schools

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 28 2011

The Commission brought another enforcement action arising out of the multi-million loss suffered by five Wisconsin school districts induced to purchase highly leveraged notes tied to the performance of synthetic collateralized debt obligations or CDOs

DOJ files a significant market crisis case against S&P

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 5 2013

The Department of Justice brought what is perhaps the most significant market crisis case to date, named as defendants rating agency Standard &

SEC files another market crisis case, naming three bank executives

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 9 2013

In the wake of the worst market crisis since the great depression Main Street has clamored to hold the executives on Wall Street accountable. Perhaps more

The reach of the SEC the Hong Kong Exchange

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Hong Kong, USA
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  • December 12 2012

In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 130 S.Ct. 869 (2010) the Supreme Court circumscribed the reach of Exchange Act Section 10(b), limiting it to the water’s edge

Lessons from the market crisis: two new cases, the end of another

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 18 2012

The SEC filed two settled actions at the end of last week tied to the residential mortgaged backed securities market

The trial of a collapsed money fund: will the public finally win?

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 10 2012

The Commission began trial this week in one of its highest profile market crisis cases, SEC v. Reserve Management Company, Inc., Case No. 1:09 CV 4346 (S.D.N.Y. Filed May 5, 2009

This is one market crisis investigation with positive results

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2011

The Taylor, Bean & Whitaker investigation spawned guilty plea number five on Friday

Another guilty plea from the demise of Taylor Bean

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 15 2011

The demise of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, as well as Colonial Bank, continues to spawn guilty pleas