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FSA update - 4 February 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 4 2013

On 30 January, the trial of Richard Joseph, who has been charged with Six counts of conspiracy to commit Insider dealing under the Criminal Justice

FSA update - 28 January 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 28 2013

In a judgment released on 25 January, the Upper Tribunal has upheld the £8 million financial penalty imposed by the FSA on 7722656 Canada Inc

SFC's attempt to obtain final freezing orders against offshore hedge fund's asset fails

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • June 24 2011

Just over two weeks ago, we reported that Hong Kong's securities regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) had argued in Hong Kong's High Court that the SFC has a freestanding and broad power when dealing with market misconduct offences to obtain final orders from the High Court freezing the assets of a New York-based hedge fund, Tiger Asia Management LLC (Tiger Asia), worth HK$38.5 million, without the SFC first having brought either civil proceedings before the Market Misconduct Tribunal (MMT) or criminal proceedings

FSA update - 20 June 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 20 2011

The FSA has secured a criminal conviction for boiler room fraud against David Roger Griffiths Mason, who has been sentenced to two years in prison and disqualified from being a director for six years

Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Erica P. John Fund v. Halliburton

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 4 2011

On April 25, 2011, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Erica P. John Fund v. Halliburton (No. 09-1403), a private securities fraud case that may have lasting impact on class action lawsuits in the United States

Court of Final Appeal reduces the scope of SFC freezing orders

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • December 13 2010

The Securities and Futures Commission's (SFC) high-profile enforcement campaign against insider dealing and other market misconduct has recently included the use of its statutory right under section 213 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) to apply to freeze the alleged proceeds

Applicant recently granted right to appeal to Appeal Court from a decision of the Market Misconduct Tribunal

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • November 29 2010

In the recent Court of Appeal (CA) case HCMP No. 2539 of 2009, two Justices of Appeal granted leave for the applicant to appeal to the full CA from the Market Misconduct Tribunal (the Tribunal), on the ground, primarily, that he has a reasonable prospect of success on appeal