Here is the weekly summary for Securities Docket’s Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”): HARVARD LAW SCHOOL FORUM ON CORP GOV (May 29, 2009): Institutional Monitoring Through Shareholder Litigation Paper finding that securities class actions with institutional owners as lead plaintiffs are less likely to be dismissed and have larger monetary settlements than class actions with individual…
Down under, Merrill Lynch and one of its subsidiaries face allegations from a Sydney businessman that they engaged in what would reportedly be “the biggest case of insider trading in [Australia’s] corporate history.” Full details are available in this post on my Enforcement Action blog over at Compliance Week.
A copy of Mark Cuban’s Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief filed yesterday against the SEC and seeking the production of numerous documents under FOIA is available here. As an aside, the case has been assigned to Judge Reggie B. Walton, who, as I have noted before, you really don’t want to mess with! Read the Complaint for Declaratory and…
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Conrad Black applies to Supreme Court for bail; FSA’s Cole Targets Insider-Trading; Mark Cuban Files His Own Lawsuit Against SEC Seeking Order to Produce Documents; Pequot Insider Trading Investigation Leads to Demise of Firm; and more.