Gibson Dunn is pleased to announce that Jina Choi, most recently the Chief of the Corporate and Securities Fraud Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Securities Enforcement and the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups. Jina also previously served as Director…
A member of Elon Musk’s government efficiency team asked Securities and Exchange Commission Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda to grant read and write access to some agency data, according to people familiar with the matter. The data access requested by Eliezer Mishory, who is leading the DOGE team at the SEC, includes staff emails, personnel data, contracts, and payments systems, the…
International law firm BCLP announced today the addition of Partner Joy Odom to the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice, based out of the Atlanta office. Source: Former Federal Prosecutor Joins BCLP’s White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice | BCLP – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
The SEC has quietly erased the online home of its federally mandated Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, as President Donald Trump seeks to end federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s main web page for the office went away sometime after March 2, according to a Bloomberg Law review of archived versions of the agency’s…
The SEC has dropped investigations into major crypto platforms and, at the same time, Trump has issued additional executive orders against Am Law 200 firms that largely backed prosecutions of cases against him, chilling dissent. The SEC shuttered its Crypto Enforcement Unit, and the U.S. Department of Justice disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team. “I don’t expect aggressive enforcement in…
If there are indeed fewer white-collar investigations and prosecutions, it could also mean fewer follow-on corporate and securities lawsuits, as well. Over the last several years, it has been a recurring phenomenon that companies facing criminal charges often are hit with tagalong civil lawsuits, filed against companies and their senior executives, alleging that the failure to prevent the underlying misconduct…