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On January 4, the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California issued a decision in a case brought by shareholders against Volkswagen arising out of the well-public...
On December 5, 2016 the PCAOB announced that it had settled charges against Brazil-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Auditores Independentes for a record $8 million civil penalty. PCAOB News...
Life sciences companies are frequent targets of securities litigation. Often, when a company discloses bad news about a developing device or drug, the company’s stock price drops and pl...
Today, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in SEC v. Jensen. The court held that Rule 13a-14 of the Securities Exchange Act confirms that the SEC has a cause of action against CEOs and C...
On June 9, 2016, New York’s highest court issued an important decision on the “common interest doctrine,” limiting the circumstances in which parties with common legal interests may...
On June 1, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear constitutional challenges to ongoing Securities and Ex...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a significant opinion last week, reversing a lower court decision and extending the whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions of th...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its long-awaited decision today on the appeal from Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s rejection in 2011 of the consent settlement in ...
Earlier today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued the following decision in the
City of Pontiac Policemen’s & Firemen’s Ret. Sys. et al. v. UBS AG et al...
On March 22, 2012, the Senate voted 96-3 to adopt the House version of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (the “STOCK Act”), which most notably extends insider trading la...