Subscribe

Join Us On LinkedIn

David M. Lynn, former Chief Counsel of the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC, has joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in its Washington, DC office. Mr. Lynn will be the Co-Chair of Morrison Foerster’s Global Public Companies Group, the firm announced. As the Chief Counsel of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance […]
Securities litigator Robert Hubbell has joined the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner. Hubbell has over 20 years of experience in the areas of accountants’ liability, securities litigation and securities enforcement. Prior to joining the firm, Hubbell practiced with Heller Ehrman for 17 years, serving as firmwide managing partner since […]
Shareholders of former Belgian-Dutch financial group Fortis plan to sue three former executives of the company in a Netherlands court for fraud, their lawyer told AFP. Their claim is against former Fortis chairman Maurice Lippens, CEO Jean-Paul Votron and CFO Gilbert Mittler, AFP reports, and seeks damages of 10 euros per share for the period […]
Holland & Knight has formed a Financial Recovery Team “to assist clients with the dramatic and unprecedented developments in the global financial markets.” In response to a financial system that “is changing at a dramatic and unprecedented pace,” Lowenstein Sandler has created a Global Financial Crisis Group to “provide clients comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and […]
Not only did Citigroup defeat a $1.92 billion lawsuit filed against it by Parmalat SA’s new management yesterday, it successfully pursued its own counterclaim against the company. A New Jersey state court jury found that Citigroup did not help corrupt executives at Parmalat loot the Italian dairy before the company collapsed in 2003, and that […]