On January 31, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Mineworker’ Pension Scheme v. First Solar Inc., No. 15-17282 (9th Cir. Jan. 31, 2018)....
On November 29, 2017, the Solicitor General filed a brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) reversing the agency’s position and arguin...
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SEC Announces Cybersecurity Enforcement Initiatives
SEC Chairman Issues Statement on Cybersecurity
ESG in Private Equity: What Every GP Needs to Know About Public Pension...
On July 7, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated parts of the District Court’s class certification order in In re Petrobras Securities Litigation (“P...
On June 26, 2017, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
split down the middle
over whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) appointment of Administrative ...
Decision Yesterday and Two Denials of Certiorari Today Decline to Apply American Pipe Tolling to Statutes of Repose Under Both the ’33 Act and ’34 Act
On June 26, 2017, the United St...
On June 5, 2017, the Supreme Court decided Kokesh v. SEC, and unanimously held that the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462—which governs any “action, suit or proce...
On April 18, 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kokesh v. SEC to resolve a circuit split on the issue of whether the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462—wh...
The Tenth and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal have come to opposite conclusions in response to constitutional challenges to the Securities Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) appoin...
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...
