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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInHis Confidence In the Client Won the Day | National Law Journal
Latham & Watkins partner Patrick Gibbs’ journey to winning one of the biggest U.S. insider-trading cases to go to trial began with an email out of the blue. The message came in 2009 from an in-house lawyer at sTec Inc. The Santa Ana, Calif., digital storage company was under the investigation by the U.S. Securities […]
Wall Street Targets Urge NY Judges to Hobble the SEC | Litigation Daily
Now three of Rakoff’s colleagues in the Southern District of New York—U.S. District Judges Katherine Forrest, Lewis Kaplan and William Pauley III—have the chance to reject or expand on Rakoff’s reasoning. Since March a string of defendants has taken aim at the SEC’s administrative proceedings in federal court, echoing Gupta’s challenge and attacking the constitutionality […]
SEC Says House Trading Probe Hindered by Court Delays – WSJ
Prosecutors gathering evidence into whether congressional staff helped tip Wall Street traders to a change in health-care policy have hit a snag: a sluggish court system. A Securities and Exchange Commission attorney said Friday that delays by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York have “impeded” its investigation. via SEC Says […]
With New Tools, Leadership, SEC Touts Toughness | The Recorder
When it comes to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, executives in Silicon Valley are on heightened alert. The agency is now run by a former federal prosecutor. Enforcement attorneys have new tools under the Dodd-Frank Act that make the defense bar uneasy. And technology now allows the agency to scan almost effortlessly for indicators […]