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DOJ files a significant market crisis case against S&P

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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 &

NY AG charges Bank of New York Mellon with securities fraud

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

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

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

The focus this week was on white collar criminal securities cases

This is one market crisis investigation with positive results

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2011

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

This week in securities litigation (June 3, 2011)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2011

Questions about what many claim is the sparse number of market crisis cases continued to swirl on Capital Hill

Financial adviser sentenced to prison for securities fraud

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 25 2011

A former Smith Barney financial adviser, Sanjeev Jayant Kumar Shah, was sentenced to serve thirty-eight months in prison for securities fraud in connection with the handling of two client accounts

Part II: The new era of FCPA enforcement: expansive interpretations

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 30 2011

One of the defining characteristics of the new era of enforcement is an aggressive application of the statutes

Citigroup: another market crisis case grounded in conflicts

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 20 2011

First there was Goldman, then J.P Morgan and now Citigroup