BOSTON - Goodwin Procter LLP , a national Am Law 50 firm, has announced that Daniel J. Tyukody has joined the firm's Litigation Department in Los Angeles as a member of its Securities Litigation & White Collar Defense Practice. He will focus... Read More

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) Investors on Nov. 6 asked a federal judge in New York to preliminarily approve a potential $80.25 million settlement of claims that defendants concealed that the investors' funds were being placed in accounts that were part... Read More

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (Mealey's) The trustee for a bankrupt feeder fund and the trustee of convicted Ponzi schemer Scott W. Rothstein's law firm have agreed to an amended $65 million settlement with Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust Co., a bank... Read More

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) In what he called "one of the largest agreements of its kind," New York Attorney General Eric. T. Schneiderman on June 25 announced that he had reached a $410 million settlement with J. Ezra Merkin for his role in the... Read More

This week the jury began deliberations in the Robert Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme case without hearing from Mr. Stanford despite promises to the contrary from defense counsel at the beginning of the trial. Granger announced an SEC FCPA probe centered on... Read More

Changes at the top of the SEC and the DOJ's criminal division may signal a new direction for securities enforcement actions. Former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White was nominated by the President to be SEC Chairman. At the same time Lanny Breuer, Assistant... Read More

By Michael J. Lello HOENIX - (Mealey's) The law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP on June 20 agreed to pay $61 million to settle a suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging that it aided an alleged Ponzi scheme that bankrupted... Read More

Several prominent athletes, including a newly-minted gold medalist member of the U.S. Olympic Soccer Team, have sued their former financial advisor and his employer, SunTrust Bank ("SunTrust"), alleging that they were unwitting investors in... Read More

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) Liquidation trustee for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) Irving H. Picard and 30 investment funds and affiliates of money management company Tremont Group Holdings Inc. have agreed to settle claims associated... Read More

NEW YORK -- (Mealey's) The bankruptcy trustee for the investment company once run by convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard L. Madoff has secured $550 million in a settlement with the family of one of Madoff's earliest investors, according to... Read More

The court-appointed trustee overseeing the unraveling of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme has filed an amended complaint in which he is seeking the return of $226.4 million from several Madoff family members including Madoff's brother, sons... Read More

HOUSTON -- (Mealey's) Insurers have proven that their policies' money laundering exclusion precludes coverage for directors and officers insureds' defense costs in underlying criminal and SEC litigation involving the alleged Stanford Ponzi... Read More

The SEC is heading for a record year in terms of the number of settled enforcement actions according to a new report by NERA. The Commission also lost its bid to compel SIPIC to provide coverage for those who purchased CDs from the off-shore bank operated... 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

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) The trustee of the bankruptcy estate of convicted multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard L. Madoff secured a nearly $500 million settlement with a feeder fund of Madoff's investment firm, according to documents... Read More