NEW YORK - Goldman Sachs has engaged in systemic and pervasive discrimination against its female professional employees, according to a lawsuit filed Sept. 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ( H. Cristina Chen-Oster, et... Read More
DALLAS - Wick Phillips Gould & Martin LLP, a full-service business law firm, is expanding its bankruptcy and litigation practice groups with the hire of Jonathan Covin, a bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights specialist. Covin has... Read More
NEW YORK - (Mealey's) Lead plaintiffs in a securities class action lawsuit against Goldman Sachs & Co. Inc., certain of its subsidiaries and officers and directors and three ratings agencies have agreed to settle their claims against the defendants... Read More
NEW YORK - Goldman, Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million in penalties and to change its business practices to settle allegations brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it misled investors in a subprime mortgage product,... Read More
Many of the toxic mortgage-backed securities that were a key part of the subprime mortgage meltdown were sold in multiple separate offerings based on the same shelf registration statement but separate prospectuses. Each separate offering included multiple... Read More
At the risk of sounding repetitive, I must report here that there has been yet another Libor-scandal related lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York. The latest lawsuit, filed on July 30, 2012, purports to be filed on behalf of a class of investors... Read More
In the case of In Re The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Shareholder Litigation , C.A. No. 5215-VCG (Oct. 12, 2011), read opinion here , Vice Chancellor Glasscock, in his first major corporate law decision, granted defendants' motion to dismiss a derivative... Read More
The SEC brought an action against eight fund directors, six of whom were independent and members of the audit committee, alleging that they caused material misstatements in the valuation of fund assets by failing to implement proper standards. The agency... Read More
The SEC's high-profile enforcement action against Goldman Sachs and one of its investment bankers may or may not revitalize the waning subprime and credit crisis-related litigation wave, but it has at least sparked an outbreak of follow on civil litigation... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) Under-fire investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has been hit with six shareholder derivative lawsuits in connection with its sale of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and its marketing... Read More
The focus this week was on white collar criminal securities cases. First, Rajat Gjupta, the former Goldman Sachs director convicted of passing confidential information to former hedge fund mogul Raja Rajartnam was sentenced. Second, Mr. Rajartnam's... Read More
In this holiday shortened week the Commission amended an insider trading case brought against two former brokers to identify the source of the information, a research analyst who befriended a lawyer working on the underlying deal. The agency also resolved... Read More
The jury heard final argument in the high profile insider trading case against former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta this week. In a court room in the Southern District of Texas the high profile action against R. Allen Stanford concluded with his... Read More
This week the SEC lost its bid to dismiss an action brought by former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta arising out of its insider trading case brought as an administrative proceeding against him. The GAO issued reports on the revolving door at the Commission... Read More
NEW YORK - (AP) A former Goldman Sachs board member accused the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday of unfairly spoiling his reputation by accusing him of passing along inside information without ever bringing the accusations in federal court... Read More