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Court provides clarification on short swing profit rules

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 12 2011

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a claim brought under Section 16(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, finding that the sale and purchase within six months of two different series of common stock traded under different ticker symbols and not otherwise convertible into one another or derivatives of one another did not constitute the “purchase and sale, or any sale and purchase, of any equity security” under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act

Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of PCAOB

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2009

In an Order issued on May 18, the Supreme Court of the United States granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), established pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Federal court rules against SEC in an insider tipping case

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2009

A federal district court has ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to show by preponderance of the evidence that a corporate executive violated the securities laws’ prohibition against disclosing material inside information