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Insights from Winston & Strawn

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 10 2012

With the passage of time, more and more of the litigation arising out of the financial crisis are coming to a close

Insights from Winston & Strawn

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2012

Last Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau submitted to the Federal Register for publication a "Request for Information Regarding Scope, Methods, and Data Sources for Conducting Study of Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements"

First Amendment does not protect credit raters

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2011

On November 12th, a Federal District Court granted in part and denied in part defendants' motions to dismiss a securities fraud lawsuit

Foreign investors' claims dismissed

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 29 2011

On August 25th, the Southern District Court for New York severed and dismissed a foreign investors lawsuit against a foreign investment fund that invested fund assets in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme

Collusive trading allegations stated securities fraud claims

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 22 2011

On August 18th, the Seventh Circuit reinstated AnchorBank's and Plumb Trust's securities fraud complaint

Dismissal of securities fraud lawsuit is affirmed

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2011

On July 26th, the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a securities fraud complaint alleging that a real estate financing company made material misstatements of fact in its offering materials concerning the impairment of two mezzanine loans

Adding insult to injury

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2011

On July 28th, the Eastern District Court for Wisconsin held that the Koss Corporation could be liable under Rule 10b-5 for securities fraud after its vice president for finance embezzled $30 million from it

Aiding and abetting securities fraud is not a RICO predicate act

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 11 2011

On July 7th, the Second Circuit dismissed Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") claims asserted by victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme against the banks through which Madoff allegedly conducted his fraud

The Securities Act's statute of repose cannot be equitably tolled

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 21 2011

On March 16th, the Southern District of New York held that the three-year statute of repose found in the Securities Act of 1933 cannot be equitably tolled

Court of federal claims has jurisdiction over derivative shareholder lawsuit brought against the FDIC

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 31 2011

On January 28th, the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, held that the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a breach of contract case brought derivatively by a failed bank's shareholders against the FDIC