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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInSecurities Suit Filings at Historically High Levels During 2017 | The D&O Diary
More securities class action lawsuits were filed in 2017 than in any year since 2001, in significant part because of the substantial number of federal court merger objection lawsuit filings during the year. But even disregarding the merger suits and looking only at the traditional securities lawsuits, the number of lawsuit filings was at the […]
Securities Suit Filings at Historically High Levels During 2017 | The D&O Diary
More securities class action lawsuits were filed in 2017 than in any year since 2001, in significant part because of the substantial number of federal court merger objection lawsuit filings during the year. But even disregarding the merger suits and looking only at the traditional securities lawsuits, the number of lawsuit filings was at the […]
The Securities Litigation Storm is Already Here | The D&O Diary
In an interesting post on his D&O Discourse blog earlier this fall (here), Doug Greene of the Lane Powell law firm raised the question whether there is a securities litigation storm brewing. Citing a number of different factors ranging from the SEC whistleblower program to changes in the plaintiffs’ bar, Greene suggested that we could […]
Sept. 10 Webcast: Gauging Investor Exposure One Year After Halliburton
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CFOs With Big Signatures More Likely to Misreport — CFO.com
Regulators on the lookout for financial misreporting may have a new investigative weapon — the size of the CFO’s signature. According to a new study, finance chiefs who are narcissistic are more likely to engage in misreporting and if they have large, self-important signatures, that “predicts misreporting” through the association of signature size with narcissism. via […]
Pension funds don’t really value right to sue for fraud – new study — On the Case
But a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Legal Studies by a Berkeley law professor says that pension funds don’t seem to be putting their money where their mouths are. According to study author Robert Bartlett, there’s an apparent gap between institutional investors’ adamant advocacy for shareholder class actions and their actual trading decisions. via […]
Yet Another Study Debunks ‘Revolving Door’ Worries | Compliance Week
The latest study on the “revolving door” finds that future career prospects motivate SEC enforcement lawyers to be more aggressive during their time at the SEC, not less. via Yet Another Study Debunks ‘Revolving Door’ Worries | Compliance Week
Study asserts startling numbers of insider trading rogues — NY Times
A quarter of all public company deals may involve some kind of insider trading, according to the study by two professors at the Stern School of Business at New York University and one professor from McGill University. The study, perhaps the most detailed and exhaustive of its kind, examined hundreds of transactions from 1996 through […]
Almost 100%: Ivory Soap, Walter White’s Blue Meth and Takeover Litigation – Compliance Week
It is hard to make anything 100% pure. Ivory Soap famously falls just short at 99.44% pure. Even Breaking Bad’s Walter White could not get his blue-tinted methamphetamine purer than 99.1%. We appear to be closing in quickly, however, on the 100% level in one area of law: takeover litigation. via Almost 100%: Ivory Soap, Walter White’s […]
U.S. securities fraud class actions tumble
The number of new federal securities class action lawsuits filed in 2012 fell to a 7-year low.