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April 24, 2025
Rivian Secures Calif. State Court Win Over Investors' IPO Suit
A California state appellate court affirmed the dismissal of a suit brought against Rivian Automotive accusing the electric vehicle manufacturer and its underwriters of misleading investors ahead of its blockbuster 2021 initial public offering, finding that Rivian's articles of incorporation direct any federal securities-related claims to federal court.
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April 24, 2025
Ready Capital Sued Again Over Real Estate Loan Losses
Ready Capital Corp. and two executives were hit with another derivatives suit alleging statements made in the back half of 2024 about the company's performance misled investors about the significance of several nonperforming commercial real estate loans.
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April 24, 2025
Pardon Me? Why Offers To Secure Clemency Might Be A Scam
Some white collar lawyers and consultants say their clients are increasingly being solicited by potential scammers with promises to leverage supposed White House connections to secure pardons and other forms of clemency in exchange for big fees.
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April 24, 2025
Ala. Ends Coinbase Enforcement Case As Feds Pursue Policy
The Alabama Securities Commission became the fifth state to drop its enforcement matter against crypto exchange Coinbase over its so-called staking business, but the agency's director told 麻豆传媒360 that it made sense for the agency to "table its litigation posture" as policymakers work to set rules of the road for crypto.
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April 24, 2025
DOJ Probing Disney-FuboTV Deal, And Other Rumors
The DOJ is investigating Disney's proposed FuboTV acquisition, Merck is close to a $3.5 billion deal for SpringWorks, and U.S. investor James Cameron offered $5 billion for a Luxembourg-based mining enterprise. Here, 麻豆传媒360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the last week.
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April 24, 2025
SEC Annuity Fraud Case Ends In Mixed Verdict
A federal jury cleared a Massachusetts investment adviser and his firm of two of three claims in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case claiming they secretly earned commissions from clients' annuity plans.
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April 24, 2025
Proskauer Adds DC-Based Secondaries Atty From Akin
Proskauer Rose LLP has hired a secondary transactions partner in Washington, D.C., the first attorney to focus their practice on that market in the firm's office in the nation's capital.
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April 24, 2025
Shareholders Back Miami's 拢70M Bid For European Exchange
The International Stock Exchange said Thursday that its shareholders have backed an approximately 拢70.4 million ($94 million) takeover offer from the owner of the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
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April 23, 2025
Shaq Settles FTX Litigation Over Alleged Promotions
Shaquille O'Neal and FTX investors in multidistrict litigation over the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse announced a settlement Wednesday resolving allegations that the basketball icon promoted FTX, including through a partnership for his Shaq's Fun House music festival, despite red flags at the crypto company.
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April 23, 2025
Feds Seek At Least 6陆 Years For Mango Markets Trader
A cryptocurrency trader convicted on claims he took $110 million out of shuttered decentralized finance platform Mango Markets should spend at least six and a half years in prison, federal prosecutors have argued, while the DeFi protocol itself asked that he pay $47 million in restitution.
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April 23, 2025
Ind. Broker-Dealer Pays FINRA Fine To Settle L Bonds Claims
An Indiana-headquartered brokerage firm is the latest to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims related to its representatives' recommendations of certain risky alternative investments like bonds offered by the now-bankrupt company GWG Holdings Inc.
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April 23, 2025
CEOs Urge SEC To Ban Political Activists' Proxy Proposals
The Business Roundtable on Wednesday urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress to quickly reform the shareholder proposal process for public companies, including by banning activists' proposals relating to environmental, social and political issues, saying proxy statements have become "battlegrounds for political debates."
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April 23, 2025
Ex-SEC Counsel Joins Blockchain Co. Plume Network As GC
Plume Network, a blockchain project focused on real-world assets聽like gold, mineral interests and private credit funds, has hired a聽former senior special counsel at聽the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as its general counsel, the project announced Wednesday.
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April 23, 2025
Citron Research Founder Can't Escape SEC Fraud Suit
The founder of trading advice website Citron Research and his investment advisory firm cannot escape the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit alleging they raked in $20 million by manipulating trading prices, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the complaint adequately alleges fraud.
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April 23, 2025
FINRA Acts On Entrex Application After SEC Gets Complaint
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has approved Entrex Carbon Market Inc.'s requests for a name change and approval of stock splits, shareholders of the carbon offset trading platform have said, although they indicated they will proceed pursuing structural reforms at the self-regulating watchdog of brokers.
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April 23, 2025
麻豆传媒 Firm Fights Sanctions Bid In Mootness Fee Row
Attorneys at Monteverde & Associates PC urged an Illinois federal judge not to order certain sanctions against them in a challenge to so-called mootness fees paid to settle and dismiss allegedly baseless merger disclosure suits, saying more sanctions would be inconsistent with "well-established" pleading and sanctions standards.
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April 23, 2025
Tech-Focused Texas Ventures SPAC Raises $200M IPO
Shares of special purpose acquisition company Texas Ventures Acquisition III began trading on Wednesday after the company raised $200 million in its initial public offering, with plans to seek out a merger with an industrial technology company.
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April 23, 2025
Crypto Co. Drops Suit Against K&L Gates, For Now
A bitcoin mining company聽has dropped its lawsuit against its former counsel K&L Gates LLP, ending for now its claims that the firm overbilled it and missed聽a key deadline in a separate bankruptcy action.
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April 23, 2025
Ex-Rabobank Exec Seeks $5M To Cover OCC Fight Legal Bill
A former Rabobank chief compliance officer has asked the Ninth Circuit to award her more than $5 million in attorney fees and expenses to cover both her defense of a now-discontinued聽Office of the Comptroller of the Currency enforcement action and her unsuccessful lawsuit to get the matter expunged.
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April 23, 2025
Silvergate Settles Securities Class Action For $37.5M In Ch. 11
The parent company of Silvergate Bank has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve a new deal to settle a securities class action for $37.5 million and resolve a slew of indemnification issues in its Chapter 11, a resolution that the debtor said would save it potentially millions of dollars in legal fees.
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April 23, 2025
Morgan Stanley's Capital Markets Lead Joins A&O Shearman
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has hired the former head of capital markets legal at Morgan Stanley as a partner in its capital markets practice in New York City, the firm recently announced.
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April 23, 2025
3 Firms Guide Launch Of $3.6B SoftBank-Backed Bitcoin Co.
Bitcoin investment startup Twenty One Capital Inc. plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with Cantor Fitzgerald at a $3.6 billion valuation, in a deal guided by three law firms, the parties announced on Wednesday.
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April 23, 2025
Skadden Adds Partner To NY Financial Institutions Group
Skadden has bolstered its New York-based team of finance attorneys with the addition of a longtime Covington partner into the firm's financial institutions group who brings with him more than two decades of experience including in-house and Big麻豆传媒 work.
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April 23, 2025
M&A 'Pause' Requires Nimble, Creative Dealmaking
With deals stalling in a market defined by uncertainty, attorneys and the dealmakers they counsel are leaning on creative structures 鈥 from earnouts to partial stake sales 鈥 to keep transactions alive, according to corporate lawyers advising on major mergers and acquisitions.
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April 23, 2025
Bernstein Litowitz Looks To Hire SEC's Ex-Top Crypto Cop
Investor-side firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has disclosed in a court filing that it is seeking to hire Jorge Tenreiro, the former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's crypto enforcement unit聽as well as the onetime chief of the agency's entire litigation team.
Expert Analysis
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer鈥檚 market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business 鈥 but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Risk Disclosure Issue Remains After Justices Nix Meta Case
After full briefing and argument, the U.S. Supreme Court recently dismissed Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank as improvidently granted, leaving courts with the tricky endeavor of determining when the failure to disclose a past event in an Item 105 risk disclosure is materially misleading, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Think Like A 麻豆传媒yer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a 鈥渟liding scale鈥 approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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FTX Exec's Sentencing Shows Pros And Cons Of Cooperation
The sentencing of former FTX tech deputy Gary Wang, whose cooperation netted him a rare outcome of no prison time, offers critical takeaways for attorneys and clients navigating the burgeoning world of crypto-related prosecutions, says Andrew Meck at Whiteford.
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SEC Custody Rule Creates Crypto Compliance Conundrum
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's application of the custody rule may be a good faith attempt to enhance consumer protections for client assets, it doesn't appreciate the unique characteristics of crypto-assets, forcing advisers to choose between pursuing their clients' objectives and complying with the rule, say attorneys at Willkie.
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Think Like A 麻豆传媒yer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons 鈥 due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources 鈥 but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Gardening Makes Me A Better 麻豆传媒yer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
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Federal Embrace Of Crypto Regs Won't Lower State Hurdles
Even if the incoming presidential administration and next Congress focus on creating clearer federal regulatory frameworks for the cryptocurrency sector, companies bringing digital asset products and services to the market will still face significant state-level barriers, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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SEC Prioritized Enforcement Sweeps As Cases Slowed In '24
Following three consecutive years of increasing activity, fiscal year 2024 marked the lowest number of cases the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has brought since Gary Gensler assumed office in April 2021, buttressed by some familiar enforcement sweeps, say attorneys at Covington.
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Equitable Mootness Insights From Greenlit Ch. 11 Plan Appeal
A Texas federal court recently allowed a challenge to ConvergeOne's Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan to proceed because it wouldn't disrupt the IT company's confirmed plan or harm creditors, reinforcing the importance of judicial restraint in applying equitable mootness where limited relief is possible, say attorneys at Parkins & Rubio.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys 鈥 new ones especially 鈥 there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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2 Cases Show DAOs May Face Increasing Legal Scrutiny
Two ongoing cases that recently survived motions to dismiss in California federal courts concerning Compound DAO and Lido DAO threaten to expand the potential liability for activity attributed to decentralized autonomous organizations 鈥 and to indirectly create liability for their participants, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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How Boards And Officers Should Prep For New Trump Admin
In anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs and mass deportation campaign, company officers and board members should pursue proactive, comprehensive contingency planning to not only advance the best interests of the companies they serve, but to also properly exercise their fiduciary duty of care, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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3 Changes Community Banks Should Expect Under Trump
A second Trump administration promises a sea change for regional and community banks, including shifts in the regulatory environment, Community Reinvestment Act rules and the M&A landscape, say attorneys at Manatt.
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How CFIUS' Updated Framework Affects Global Investors
The recent change to the monitoring and enforcement regulations governing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States will broaden administrative practices around nonnotified transaction investigations, increase the scope of information demands from the committee and accelerate its ability to impose mitigation on parties, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.