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The torrid pace of securities class action lawsuit filings continued in the first half of 2018, coming in at a rate only very slightly below last year’s record-setting pace. While a significant number of the first half filings are attributable to merger objection lawsuit lawsuits, the number of traditional filing alone during the first half […]
What would the world look like if a public company officer or director, recognizing the value inherent in material nonpublic firm information and intending to benefit people of limited means, gave this valuable information to those less fortunate without the knowledge or consent of the firm and without any expectation of benefit in return? How, […]
The U.S. government on Tuesday criminally charged a Standard & Poor’s credit ratings analyst and two friends, all from Manhattan, with insider trading related to Sherwin-Williams Co’s $9.3 billion purchase of Valspar Corp. via U.S. charges S&P analyst, 2 others with insider trading in paint merger | Reuters.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), and Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.) asked SEC Commissioner Jay Clayton in a letter released Thursday to probe Ross’s sale of shares of a shipping company with ties to the Russian government. via Dems ask SEC to investigate Wilbur Ross for insider trading | TheHill.