(This is an excerpt of an Osterman Research Inc. White Paper sponsored by Reed Tech Web Archiving Services and LexisNexis. Please click here to download the entire White Paper .) Executive Summary OVERVIEW The web has become the primary communication... Read More

NEW YORK - A securities litigator with experience working in-house for two of the world's largest financial advisors has joined Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s global litigation practice as senior counsel. John Bevilacqua comes to Fulbright's... Read More

ATLANTA - Pat Huddleston, the driving force behind Investor's Watchdog LLC and the author of The Vigilant Investor , joined the Atlanta-based law firm of Page Perry LLC as a partner on Nov. 28, 2011. Formerly an SEC enforcement branch chief out of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP has formed a multidisciplinary Whistleblower Team to offer experienced, comprehensive counsel on the full range of issues that arise under the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) final whistleblower... Read More

NEW YORK - Jordan A. Thomas, a 16-year veteran of the federal government, has announced that he has left the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to join Labaton Sucharow LLP and launch its Whistleblower Representation Practice. Labaton Sucharow... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The Securities and Exchange Commission on June 22 approved a new rule pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that defines "family offices" that will be excluded from the Investment... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 27 reversed a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling allowing the Securities and Exchange Commission to seek securities fraud penalties for conduct that had ceased more than five years... Read More

By Mark S. Thomas and Robert W. Shaw | The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that an ERISA-regulated employee stock-ownership retirement plan’s incorporation by reference of the plan sponsor’s statements to the Securities... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The Securities and Exchange Commission and the City of Harrisburg, Pa., have agreed to a cease-and-desist order preventing the city from continuing its violation of federal securities laws in connection with statements... Read More

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (Mealey's) A federal jury in Florida handed down a rare verdict in a securities class action lawsuit on Nov. 18, finding subprime lender BankAtlantic Bancorp. Inc. and certain of its executive officers guilty of federal securities... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached an approximately $237 million settlement with six oil service industry companies and global freight forwarding company Panalpina Inc., which are alleged to have bribed foreign officials... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The Securities and Exchange Commission acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in enacting its proxy access rule pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a District of Columbia... Read More

By Mary Pivec and Igor M. Babichenko I. INTRODUCTION On July 31, 2012, the United States District Court for the Central District of California dismissed without prejudice a shareholder derivative suit against American Apparel and its individual directors... Read More

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A federal judge in New York on Nov. 8 ordered former Galleon Management Co. General Partner Raj Rajaratnam to pay a nearly $93 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in a massive insider... Read More

SAN JOSE, Calif. — (Mealey’s) Technology company Maxim Integrated Products Inc. announced May 5 that it has reached an agreement in principle to settle an investor backdating class action in a California federal court for $173 million ( In... Read More