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Co-Lead Counsel Named in Provident Royalties Securities Litigation
Court appoints co-lead counsel in Provident Royalties secuities class action.
UK: SFO Announces Corruption Charges Against Former DePuy Exec
SFO announces corruption charges against former DePuy vice president.
Former SEC Enf. Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Dreier Case
Robert Miller was enforcement attorney at SEC from 1983-1986.
AmLaw Video: Challenges Facing the SEC
Ralph Ferrara of Dewey & LeBoeuf says more power is not what SEC enforcement needs.
CNBC Video: Madoff Associate Found Dead in Pool
Death of central figure in Madoff case may complicate recovery efforts.
Four Securities Litigators Join Baker Hostetler in New York
Four litigators join Baker, will also assist on Madoff litigation with Irving Picard.
James Moyle joins Alston & Bird in New York
Moyle joins A&B’s Securities Litigation and Commercial Litigation Groups from Morgan Lewis.
Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Sept. 18
A digest of Securities Docket’s Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”) for the week ending Sept. 18.
Honk Kong: Securities Regulators Obtain Prison Sentence in a Second Case for Insider Trading
It’s not just the UK that is cracking down on insider trading. Take a look at Hong Kong. Less than three weeks after Ma Hon-yeung, a former BNP Paribas vice president, and his girlfriend, Ivy Lo, became the first people in Hong Kong to be jailed for insider trading (sentenced to 26 months and 12 [...]
Guest Column — The Retek Decision: A Case Study on Loss Causation at Summary Judgment
Guest columnist Richard Gallagher writes about a recent order by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota granting summary judgment to the defense on loss causation grounds in In re Retek Inc. Securities Litigation. On the basis of the court’s loss causation analysis, the court dismissed all of the remaining claims in the case, which arose under Section 10(b) and 20(a) of the 1934 Act. The Court’s ruling is significant because it provides a thorough review of loss causation principles as they apply at the summary judgment stage, as opposed to the pleading stage.