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March 30 Webcast–Avoiding Prosecution Under the UK Bribery Act: Playing Offense and Defense
Please join Vivian Robinson QC, Barry Vitou, Richard Kovalevsky QC and Julian Glass for this free webcast.
OSC should think twice about accepting SEC-style deals
Ontario Securities Commission chairman Howard Wetston says he wants more U.S.-style enforcement out of his regulators. At first blush, it sounds like a fine idea. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has admirable regulatory vigour by Canadian standards. But one of Mr. Wetston’s specific suggestions is a greater use of settlements in which the defendants [...]
Securities Docket News Wire for March 10, 2011
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for March 10, 2011.
Securities Docket News Wire for March 9, 2011
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for March 9, 2011.
Larry Bergmann Joins Murphy & McGonigle in Washington, D.C.
Former SEC official joins Murphy & McGonigle from Willkie Farr.
Curious Accusations in S.E.C.’s Insider Trading Case
Given the seriousness of the claims — insider trading by an executive who had reached the upper echelons of corporate America — why not bring criminal charges against Mr. Gupta? Well, that’s where the facts of the case get a little mushy, and they are starting to raise some questions among lawyers about the S.E.C.’s [...]
Second Circuit Addresses Materiality Standard Under Federal Securities Law
In particular, the Court held that where, as in Blackstone, the issuer has multiple segments, if a misstatement is significant to “a particularly important segment of a registrant’s business” it may be material even if it is “quantitatively small compared to a registrant’s firm-wide financial results.” Read more
Securities Docket News Wire for March 8, 2011
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for March 8, 2011.
Irving Picard, The Man With the Thankless Job of Pursuing Billions Lost in Madoff Fraud (WSJ)
Devoutly anonymous, Irving Picard, the 69-year-old career bankruptcy attorney unraveling history’s biggest Ponzi scheme, has nonetheless assumed a larger-than-life profile. He has attacked institutions from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to the New York Mets, and angered some victims of Bernard Madoff in pursuit of the billions lost in the fraud. Read more
Robert Hubbell Joins Morrison & Foerster in Los Angeles
Securities litigator joins MoFo from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.