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Please Attend Our Jan. 6 Webcast: The 2008 Year in Review
On January 6, 2008, Securities Docket will present its first webcast — a review of the most important developments in 2008, and a look ahead to 2009. The webcast is the first of many to come on the new Securities Litigation and Enforcement Channel, and is sponsored by Innovative Discovery. We are delighted to have […]
Securities Docket News Wire for Dec. 12, 2008
Introducing the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Channel. http://is.gd/e429 # Securities class action filed against Emcore Corporation in District of New Mexico. http://is.gd/e2vD # Court rules clawback provision of SOX applies only when restatement actually filed. http://tinyurl.com/8u9v7b #
Bloomberg Video: Update on Madoff Asset Disclosure and Broader Impact on SEC
In this Bloomberg video, former SEC attorney Ron Geffner discusses the imminent disclosure of assets by Bernard Madoff (Dec. 31 deadline), and the broader possible impact of the Madoff case on the SEC as an institution.
Global IPO Numbers Anemic in Second Half of 2008
The ongoing financial crisis caused global IPO issuance to come to a near halt in mid-2008, and that steep decline has continued through the end of 2008. A December 2008 report from Renaissance Capital on the state of the global and US IPO market shows some stunningly weak numbers, including: Globally, the average new issue […]
Introducing the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Channel
One of the exciting features we are adding to Securities Docket in 2009 is the new Securities Litigation and Enforcement Channel. The Securities Litigation and Enforcement Channel will be the home for a series of regular webcasts that we will kick off on January 6, 2009, and continue going forward. Our first webcast will be […]
Court rules clawback provision of SOX applies only when restatement actually filed
On December 12, 2008, U.S. District Judge Jean Hamilton (E.D. Mo.) ruled that the “clawback” provision of Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 only applies where an accounting restatement actually is filed. The court found that it is not enough that an accounting restatement should have been filed because of a company’s material […]
Securities Docket News Wire for Dec. 28, 2008
Credit Suisse clients have lost up to a billion Swiss francs in the alleged Madoff Ponzi scheme, according to Sonntag. http://is.gd/dS6A # Manhattan Institute Finds La. Pension Funds Most Active Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Cases. http://is.gd/dOT0 #
Manhattan Institute Finds La. Pension Funds Most Active Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Cases
The Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy has a new report out about litigation in the state of Louisiana, and as usual it pulls no punches. According to an updated report in the CLP’s Trial Lawyers Inc. series entitled “Louisiana Litigators: While People Leave the Pelican State, Attorneys Thrive,” while Louisiana continues to lose residents, […]
Securities Docket News Wire for Dec. 27, 2008
Germany: Investigators Probe Possible Insider Trading by Ex-Managers at Hypo Real Estate. http://is.gd/dH1t # Updated list of 95 Madoff victims. http://is.gd/bVb7 # Madoff Must Reveal All Assets by Dec. 31 (investments, loans, lines of credit, biz interests, brokerage accts, other). http://is.gd/dGyX #
Germany: Investigators Probe Possible Insider Trading by Ex-Managers at Hypo Real Estate
German prosecutors have launched several investigations into suspected insider trading at troubled lender Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. The AP reports that investigators are looking at the sale of large numbers of shares in the company before it first warned of troubles during the global financial crisis. Der Spiegel reports that several ex-managers as well […]