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Hedge funder’s case against Preet Bharara dismissed | New York Post
David Ganek hopes of seeing former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara in court were squashed Tuesday. Ganek, founder of now-defunct hedge fund Level Global, saw the 2015 case he brought against Bharara and the FBI, dismissed by the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Ganek had alleged that the feds “fabricated evidence” in order to […]
How Valuable Is a Unicorn? Maybe Not as Much as It Claims to Be – The New York Times
In Palo Alto, Calif., just down the road from many of the biggest tech companies and the most influential venture capitalists, a professor at Stanford University has quietly been working on a project to crunch the valuation numbers behind some of these private companies. Ilya A. Strebulaev and another professor working with him, Will Gornall […]
Nov. 9 Webcast: The Growing Impact of Corporate Investigations — Recent Trends in SEC and DOJ Enforcement Actions
Please join Rex Homme and Catherine Moreno for this free webcast.
North Korean hackers’ attempts to steal bitcoin are a huge wake-up call—Commentary
The report, from cybersecurity firm FireEye, found three attacks against South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges traced to North Korean hackers between May and July of this year. “The ability of regimes like Kim Jong Un’s North Korea to mine or steal cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin is a new reason to be cautious in treating these commodities […]
Steve Cohen hedge fund said to send pitch documents to investors – Business Insider
Steve Cohen, the billionaire hedge-fund manager briefly banned from the industry after an insider-trading investigation, this week sent investors documents pitching his new fund, Stamford Harbor Capital, a person who has reviewed the deck told Business Insider. via Steve Cohen hedge fund said to send pitch documents to investors – Business Insider
Sept. 26 Webcast: What Every C-Suite Executive Needs to Know Right Now About the Equifax Data Breach
The recent Equifax data breach is perhaps the largest in history and has barraged the company and its senior executives with a complex and challenging range of legal, financial and technological issues — issues that every corporation and its outside counsel will inevitably (and unfortunately) encounter. In this timely webcast, John Reed Stark, seasoned data […]
Justice Department Tells Buchanan Bernie Madoff Victims About to be Compensated | Congressman Vern Buchanan
Responding to inquiries from Congressman Vern Buchanan, the U.S. Justice Department said it will begin compensating the victims of scam artist Bernie Madoff within the next few months. Buchanan, who complained about the slow compensation from a fund created five years ago, said he received a letter this week from Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd stating the […]
Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process – The New York Times
It is no secret that the public stock markets — despite the heights they’ve reached (and the credit that President Trump has taken for them) — are fundamentally broken. No chief executive wants to live in the glare of the public spotlight and deal with pesky investors who hold stocks in time frames of days […]
Thinking About the Growth of Third-Party Litigation Financing | The D&O Diary
Third-party litigation funding has its critics and detractors (refer, for example, here and here). The fact is that third-party litigation funding is now well-established and is here to stay. A recent survey by one of the leading funding firms, discussed below, confirms that the acceptance and use of litigation funding is growing rapidly. The more […]
Equifax leaders blasted over handling of massive security breach | Bloomberg
“This is a Category 5 storm for the board,” said Bart Friedman, a senior counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP who advises corporate directors on compliance matters. “If they knew about the breach and waited to make it public, they will be criticised for not exercising appropriate oversight. If they did not know about […]