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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInEversheds Sutherland Adds Accomplished Financial Services Enforcement Counsel Ellen Sheridan-Cona as Counsel in New York – Eversheds Sutherland
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Ellen Sheridan-Cona has joined the firm’s Litigation Practice Group as counsel in the New York office, bolstering the firm’s financial services litigation practice particularly in enforcement, compliance and regulatory matters. Ms. Sheridan-Cona joins Eversheds Sutherland from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), where she was senior regional counsel […]
A Bitcoin ETF Would Be Good for Investors and Regulators – Bloomberg
Some might say approving an ETF only further legitimizes an industry that we should be trying to contain. But the traditional approach to financial market regulation is to refrain from such judgments, and instead to require transparency and integrity in markets and let investors make their own decisions. So, if it’s unlikely that Congress will […]
July 28 Webcast: The Modernization of Communications and Corporate Investigations
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Leading Securities Enforcement Lawyer Philip Khinda Joins Cadwalader’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP announced today that Philip Khinda, one of the nation’s top advisers to C-suite executives and boards on SEC matters, has joined the firm’s white collar defense and investigations practice. He will split his time between Cadwalader’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices. Khinda joins Cadwalader from Steptoe & Johnson, where […]
Former Enron Executive: SEC Whistleblower Program Is a Game Changer – WSJ
Sherron Watkins, the Enron Corp. executive who warned management about fraud, said not having confidentiality and protection for whistleblowers can have a cost. Nearly 20 years after the energy company’s collapse, Ms. Watkins, 61 years old, said being labeled a whistleblower has been a challenge to her career ever since. If current whistleblower protections had […]
Stroock Continues Lateral Expansion, Adds Trio of White Collar/Securities Litigation Partners
In a significant broadening of the firm’s government investigations capabilities, a trio of seasoned white collar and securities litigation partners have joined Stroock’s Litigation and Government Affairs and Regulatory Services (GARS) practice. A nationally renowned SEC enforcement lawyer, Richard Morvillo joins in Washington, D.C., while partners Scott Morvillo, and Ellen Murphy will be based in […]
Manhattan federal judge William Pauley dies at 68 | Reuters
U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III, who oversaw two decades of Manhattan federal court fights including the criminal case against longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, has died. He was 68. Pauley died Tuesday morning “after a battle with an illness,” Southern District of New York district court executive Edward Friedland said in an […]
Michele Korver FinCEN Chief Digital Currency Advisor – Bitcoin Magazine
The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced today that Michele Korver, previously in the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Digital Currency Council, will serve as FinCEN’s first Chief Digital Currency Advisor. “Ms. Korver will advance FinCEN’s leadership role in the digital currency space by working across internal and external partners toward strategic and innovative […]
Visa says crypto-linked card usage tops $1 billion in first half of 2021
Visa said Wednesday that more than $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency was spent by consumers globally on goods and services through their crypto-linked cards in the first six months of the year. By comparison, Visa estimated crypto spending at only a fraction of that amount in the same periods last year and in 2019. The […]
A Wave of Earnings Restatements Slams a Hot Market – WSJ
More than 540 companies have restated their financial accounts in the past three months, higher than every full year since 2013, to comply with a directive from Washington, new data show. The guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission hasn’t had a big impact on investors but has helped cause a big slowdown in one […]