We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 1,346

Think the government’s claim against you is time-barred? Not so fast!

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

When a company understands that the United States Government may have a claim against it, the company's directors and officers are usually very aware

Two recent Supreme Court cases offer good and bad news for securities defendants

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

The United States Supreme Court issued two recent opinions that offer both good and bad news to defendants in securities fraud lawsuits. Although

Best laid plans gone awry: practices for Rule 10b5-1 trading plans

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

Rule 10b5-1 trading plans are in the limelight due to investigations initiated by U.S. Attorney's Offices and the SEC into possible abuses by

U.S. insider trading enforcement goes global

  • Allen & Overy LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

A recent inquiry into potential insider trading in Switzerland ahead of the acquisition of H.J. Heinz Company has drawn attention to the role of U.S

SEC secures $2.7 million judgment against broker and others

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 28 2013

The Commission prevailed on a motion for summary judgment against a brokerage firm, its principle and a former managing director, ultimately securing

The Dell insider trading cases

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

Anthony Chiasson, the co-founder of hedge fund Level Global Investors, was sentenced on insider trading charges this week to serve 78 months in

SEC, USAO file kickback charges based on Argentinean bond scheme

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

Fraud charges centered on a kickback scheme that generated more over $60 million trading Venezuelan bonds which was executed by employees of a New

Insider trading through deductive reasoning: Canada and the United States take different approaches

  • Davis LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

The Ontario Securities Commission and a veteran investment banker, Richard Moore, recently reached a settlement agreement regarding claims by the OSC

The 'civil-izing' of white-collar criminal enforcement

  • Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

In recent congressional testimony, Attorney General Eric Holder made waves by acknowledging that "it becomes difficult for the Department of

This week in securities litigation (week ending April 19, 2013)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

The Second Circuit's pending decision in the Commission's Citigroup market crisis case continues to loom as Judge Marreno approved the over $600