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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit shook the insider trading world in 2014 when it issued United States v. Newman, 773 F.3d 438 (2d Cir. 2014). The court addressed the knowledge required for liability of remote tippees and what a personal benefit means in tipping cases. I think the decision in that […]
One of the Obama administration’s few remaining Wall Street enforcers is stepping down. Aitan Goelman, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s enforcement division, announced his departure on Wednesday during a broad exodus of prosecutors and regulators in the Obama administration’s final days. via Enforcement Chief to Step Down at Financial Derivatives Regulator – The […]
Rolls-Royce, the maker of jet engines and other power systems, said on Monday that it had agreed to pay $817 million to resolve several long-running bribery and corruption inquiries. The company said that it had reached so-called deferred prosecution agreements with the Serious Fraud Office of Britain, as well as the United States Department of […]
General Motors has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accounting case related to a faulty ignition switch linked to 124 deaths and 275 injuries, the regulator said on Wednesday. The deal would resolve charges that accounting control failures at the automaker prevented GM from properly assessing the potential […]
Attorneys said they wouldn’t be surprised if Clayton, once confirmed, selects a former prosecutor at Sullivan & Cromwell to head the enforcement division, much as White chose a Debevoise & Plimpton colleague, Andrew Ceresney, to lead the division. Hunter and others noted that Clayton has a number of experienced partners at Sullivan & Cromwell who […]
Brad Karp, chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has worked at the firm his entire professional career. Today, his clients include major banks such as Citigroup and the National Football League, and he continues to practice while growing the firm, which was the second most profitable in the U.S. in 2016. Below is […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for January 17, 2017.