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Broker’s scheme to profit from trading Apple ends in DOJSEC charges

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 16 2013

Broker David Miller did not have inside information about the Apple earnings call scheduled for October 25, 2012. He did have something else - plans

UN Security Council Committee establishes list of designated entities for North Korea

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, North Korea
  • -
  • May 6 2009

Following publication by the UN's Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), a list of entities has now been established under the Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolution on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (UNRDPK

The SEC's new Director of Enforcement outlines new initiatives

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 1 2009

In a speech on August 5, 2009, to the New York City Bar Association, the SEC’s new Director of Enforcement, Robert Khuzami, outlined several new initiatives to be undertaken by the Division of Enforcement and provided further detail about previously mentioned initiatives

House passes the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009; would establish a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission for 18-month investigation of the U.S. financial crisis

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2009

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (“FERA”) (S.326), which, among other things, establishes a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (“Commission”) with broad powers to investigate the domestic and global causes of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States

FSA helps find a boiler room

  • Dentons
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 8 2009

FSA has worked with UK police forces as part of a Europe-wide investigation into share fraud and boiler room activities which have led to £28 million losses for investors

CEO granted partial summary judgment on SEC’s Sarbanes-Oxley claims

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 16 2009

Defendant was the CEO and Chairman of Engineered Support Systems, Inc

The Ninth Circuit adopts "holistic" approach to scienter and raises the bar for securities fraud plaintiffs

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2009

On January 12, 2009 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinforced the protections of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) through its first substantial interpretation of the Supreme Court's Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. decision regarding the pleading requirements for scienter in securities fraud complaints

Ontario Court of Justice

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 21 2009

On November 4, 2008, Justice Shamai of the Ontario Court of Justice released reasons in R. v. Landen, an insider trading and tipping case brought pursuant to sections 76(1) and 76(2) of the Ontario Securities Act

Court upholds “asset freeze” against non-parties’ property

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 16 2009

Simultaneous with the Securities and Exchange Commission's filing of a complaint alleging massive securities fraud perpetrated by Joseph Shereshevsky and companies with which he was associated, the SEC obtained an order freezing the defendants' assets

SEC settles with Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc., and two of its officers

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On July 31, 2009, the SEC filed a settled enforcement proceeding against Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (“NSP”), a publicly held manufacturer of nutritional and personal care products, its Chief Executive Officer, Douglas Faggioli and its former Chief Financial Officer, Craig D. Huff