Insider trading, implementing Dodd-Frank, asset valuations and old scandals dominated the securities enforcement litigation this week. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and the SEC brought more high profile insider trading cases focused on the... Read More

Insider trading continues to be the focus as the first quarter of the year came to a close. The SEC and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office brought another insider trading case against an SAC Capital official. More unidentified traders were identified... Read More

George Canellos and David Burger were appointed, respectively, the Acting Director and Acting Deputy Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement this week. The Division brought two insider trading cases this week as well as a case alleging fraudulent... Read More

In Congress this week, a bipartisan bill was introduced to roll back part of the Dodd-Frank legislation related to swaps. It would expanded the swaps trading permitted by federally insured banks. Two high profile enforcement insider trading actions were... Read More

In a May 11, 2011 opinion ( here ), a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of rating agency defendants in litigation filed under the Securities Act of 1933 and involving mortgage-related securities issues by Lehman Brothers and... Read More

The focus this week in securities enforcement continues to be SAC Capital. The firm's owner received a grand jury subpoena in the on-going criminal and civil insider trading investigations being conducted by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office... Read More

The Commission began trial in its action against former Goldman Sachs employee Fabrice Tourre. The case centers on the market crisis action the SEC previously resolved with his former employer. The stakes are high in this case with significant media coverage... Read More

Speculation about SAC Capital and Steve Cohen, insider trading and Facebook dominated securities enforcement litigation this week. Although SAC Capital has tentatively resolved matters for the moment with enforcement officials, a ruling in private litigation... Read More

The SEC took three unusual steps this week. First, in a high stakes move, the agency appealed the refusal of Judge Rakoff to approve its proposed settlement in a market crisis case with Citigroup. A loss in the Second Circuit could substantially injure... Read More

George Canellos and Andrew Ceresney, two former colleagues in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, became the first Co-Directors of the SEC's Enforcement Division. The Division also secured a ruling this week which will permit its subpoena... Read More

This week the Commission announced three victories in court and filed four new civil injunctive actions. At the same time long simmering matters moved forward. Reuters reports that the new DOJ task force, created in the wake of the President's state... Read More

NEW YORK — (Mealey’s) In a New York federal court, UBS Financial Services Inc. agreed on Aug 8 to pay $120 million to settle federal securities law claims that it misrepresented the investment quality of certain Lehman Brothers securities... Read More

Over the last 10 years, the far-reaching examination of the trading practices of the mutual fund industry, numerous enforcement actions by the SEC against prominent broker-dealers and fund complexes, and scores of civil lawsuits resulted in very significant... Read More

After resolving insider trading charges against Diamondback Capital in the Dell insider trading cases, the Commission filed two more settled insider trading actions. SEC v. Shafer, Civ. Action No. 1:12-CV-00062 (S.D. Ohio Filed Jan. 24, 2012); SEC v.... Read More

Mary Jo White became the thirty-first chairman of the SEC this week. Ms. White take the helm of an agency at a cross-roads. While it has made great strides since the beginning of the financial crisis and a series of scandals many have questioned the vigor... Read More