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Securities Docket News Wire for March 20, 2009
March 26 Webcast — Examining the Bankruptcy Trustee’s Controversial “Clawback” Tool. http://is.gd/oeST # Highlights of Commissioner Walter’s Congressional Testimony Today on SEC’s Enforcement Division. http://is.gd/oc4X # Credit-rating agencies set for billion-dollar windfall from bailouts–$7 billion in new bond deals must be blessed. http://is.gd/obaI # Dreier’s Lawyers Indicate He is Likely to Change Plea to Guilty. [...]
Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Mar. 20
Here is the weekly summary for Securities Docket’s Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”): CONGLOMERATE (March 20, 2009): But Enough About Me, Let’s Talk About My Article Usha Rodrigues on her new article addressing the problem of how we we can ever know if companies are complying with our securities laws by [...]
March 26 Webcast — Examining the Bankruptcy Trustee’s Controversial “Clawback” Tool
The Madoff Ponzi scheme has brought intense scrutiny to the “clawback,” a controversial tool of the bankruptcy trustee that can allow the trustee to clawback funds received from a bankrupt person or entity. Sometimes, as in the Madoff case, the people subject to the clawback are victims themselves. Join us for a webcast that will [...]
Dreier’s Lawyers Indicate He is Likely to Change Plea to Guilty
Lawyers for Marc Dreier advised U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff (SDNY) yesterday that Dreier is likely to change his plea to guilty in the case against him. Prosecutors allege that Dreier sold $700 million in phony securities to hedge funds. The AP reports that the defense announcement came at a hearing yesterday where Marc Dreier [...]
Court Dismissing Mayer Brown Defendants from Refco Case Revises Opinion to Voice Dismay
Shortly after issuing his opinion dismissing the law firm Mayer Brown and a former partner of the firm from the Refco securities litigation because he found they were not liable under the Supreme Court’s Stoneridge case unless they made misstatements directly to plaintiffs, Judge Gerard Lynch of the SDNY revised his opinion. He added a [...]
Securities Docket News Wire for March 19, 2009
Court Dismisses Mayer Brown and Former Partner from Refco Securities Class Action. http://tinyurl.com/d7tcgd # House Subcommittee Approves SEC Request to Use $17 Million in Unspent Funds. http://tinyurl.com/c8pruk # SEC Inspector General Report: “Practices Related to Naked Short Selling Complaints and Referrals” http://tinyurl.com/ceb7pl # Speech by SEC Commissioner Aguilar:”Reinvigorating the Enforcement Program to Restore Investor Confidence” [...]
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Former AUSA Sean Haran Joins Paul, Hastings in New York
Sean Haran has joined law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker as of counsel in the firm’s New York office. The firm announced today that Haran has joined its Litigation Department. Haran previously served as Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud section for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York. Read [...]
Douglas Koff Joins Paul, Hastings in New York
Douglas Koff has joined law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker as a partner in the firm’s New York office. The firm announced today that Koff, formerly of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, has joined its Litigation Department. Mr. Koff’s practice focuses on securities and corporate litigation, complex business litigation and related government and internal investigations. [...]