Capital Markets

  • January 29, 2025

    Binary Options Fraudsters Must Pay $451.6M To CFTC

    An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday ordered three Israeli businessmen and the overseas businesses they owned or ran to pay over $451.6 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, holding them liable for lying about the profitability of binary options transactions and misappropriating customer funds.

  • January 29, 2025

    SEC Says PE Firm Defrauded Investors In $1B Fund

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued a private equity firm in Florida federal court Wednesday, alleging that it defrauded investors in a $1 billion fund by, among other things, falsely promising to segregate their assets and by transferring tens of millions of dollars into bank accounts held by the fund's leading executives.

  • January 29, 2025

    Sports Co., Ex-CEO Must Pay $1.8M In SEC Fraud Suit

    A D.C. federal judge has ordered sports business Crystal World, its ousted CEO and a related investment group to pay approximately $1.8 million in disgorgement and civil penalties for securities violations, lowering the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's bid for a $4.1 million total judgment.

  • January 29, 2025

    Roomba Maker Escapes Suit Over Scuttled Amazon Merger

    A Massachusetts federal judge has permanently thrown out a shareholder class action accusing iRobot Corp. of misleading investors about expected regulatory opposition that ultimately led to the abandonment of a proposed $1.7 billion merger with Amazon, saying "the pleading process ought not be used as a trial balloon, with repeated bites at the apple."

  • January 29, 2025

    2 Blank Check Cos. Plan IPOs Totaling $325M

    Two special purpose acquisition companies, Cartesian Growth III and Gesher Acquisition Corp. II, have launched plans for initial public offerings, expecting to raise a combined $325 million.

  • January 29, 2025

    Jurors Find Fund Can Keep $11M From Short-Swing Trades

    A Denver federal jury unanimously found a hedge fund is exempt from a law that would otherwise require it to return $11 million in profits from the short-swing trades of a biopharmaceutical company's stock, delivering a verdict after less than an hour of deliberation Wednesday.

  • January 29, 2025

    Capital Markets Group of the Year: Latham

    Latham's capital markets team shepherded a number of high-profile privately held companies to the public market, including Lineage Inc.'s $4.4 billion IPO, the largest IPO of 2024, and Reddit's $748 million IPO, earning the group a spot on the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2025

    Sen. Warren Has 'Serious Concern' Over Lutnick's Tether Ties

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D.-Mass., has asked U.S. Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick to provide more information on his involvement with the crypto firm Tether Ltd. Inc., saying his firm Cantor Fitgerald's stake in the success of a token allegedly favored by "outlaws" is cause for concern.

  • January 28, 2025

    GigaCloud Partially Escapes Suit Over Revenue, Tech Claims

    GigaCloud Technology Inc. and its top brass have partially escaped a proposed class action alleging it misrepresented its operating metrics and revenues and use of artificial intelligence, with a New York federal judge saying that a federal securities law violation "cannot be premised upon a company's disclosure of accurate historical data."

  • January 28, 2025

    Ex-SEC Enforcement Chief Says Staff Faced Uptick In Threats

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently departed enforcement chief said Tuesday he wishes he could have done more to insulate his staff from the uptick in threats they received while he headed the program, and he urged his successor to do what they could to protect the agency's attorneys.

  • January 28, 2025

    Founder Can't Explain Hedge Fund's Filing Mismatch To Jury

    A hedge fund founder told a Denver jury Tuesday that he doesn't know why some of the fund's regulatory filings don't identify it as a director for a Colorado biopharmaceutical company, in a suit brought by stockholders who claim the fund must return $11 million earned from short-swing trades.

  • January 28, 2025

    Citron Research Founder Slams DOJ's Fraud Suit

    Citron Research's founder urged a California federal judge to throw out the federal government's securities fraud case alleging he published unfavorable reports about companies to manipulate stock prices, arguing Monday he never published false information about any public company, and prosecutors fail to allege he intended to defraud his audience.

  • January 28, 2025

    DC Judge Doubts Lawfulness Of USCIS EB-5 Guidance

    A D.C. federal judge expressed deep skepticism Tuesday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acted lawfully when the agency shortened the minimum investment period for foreign investors seeking green cards, outlining plans to toss the rule or pause a lawsuit challenging it pending rulemaking.

  • January 28, 2025

    Drugs Made In America SPAC Nets $200M To Buy Pharma Biz

    Blank-check company Drugs Made In America Acquisition Corp. began trading Tuesday after completing a downsized $200 million initial public offering with the intention of acquiring a U.S.-based pharmaceutical business, represented by Loeb & Loeb LLP and underwriter's counsel Winston & Strawn LLP.

  • January 28, 2025

    Dolce & Gabbana Wants 'Worthless' NFT Outfit Suit Tossed

    The U.S. division of Italian luxury fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana has urged a New York federal judge to toss a proposed investor class action accusing it of abandoning a nonfungible tokens project while retaining the more than $25 million that was used to fund it, arguing that the U.S. arm of the company was not at all involved in the project.

  • January 28, 2025

    SEC Wells Meetings Likely Back On The Table, Official Says

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's acting deputy director of enforcement said Tuesday that leadership was open to meeting more frequently with those facing SEC investigations and hinted at the possibility that it would pursue fewer industry bars against those who violate the securities laws. 

  • January 28, 2025

    Silk Road Pardon Sparks Hope For More Crypto Clemency

    President Donald Trump's decision to free the convicted Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht brought praise from crypto advocates and spurred some to seek the ear of the new administration in hopes that the president will pardon other alleged crypto criminals, too.

  • January 28, 2025

    Cement Maker Carve-Out Titan America Plans For $396M IPO

    The U.S. business of worldwide cement producer Titan Cement Group on Tuesday announced the terms for its initial public offering, planning to raise $396 million.

  • January 28, 2025

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    The complex transactions that Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's capital markets practice group executed over the past year for clients in the insurance and utility industries — worth millions and billions of dollars — earn it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2025

    Paul Hastings, Cravath Lead Smithfield's Reduced $522M IPO

    Shares of pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc., which has spun off from China's WH Group, began trading Tuesday after the company priced a downsized $522 million initial public offering below its initial range, with Paul Hastings LLP advising Smithfield in the offering and Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP representing its underwriters.

  • January 27, 2025

    Radiology Co.'s Ex-Workers Win Class Cert. In ESOP Suit

    A Colorado federal judge on Friday certified an ERISA class action accusing a radiology company and its trustee of overcharging its employee stock ownership plan for purchase of company stock.

  • January 27, 2025

    Lummis Tells 2nd Circ. SEC 'Flouts' Congress In Crypto Cases

    Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R.-Wyo., told the Second Circuit that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ongoing suit against Coinbase Inc. has complicated congressional efforts to set rules for digital assets, filing her support for the crypto exchange's bid for a quick ruling from the appeals court on how securities laws apply to the transactions on its platform.

  • January 27, 2025

    Crypto Exchange KuCoin Pleads Out, Agrees To Pay $297M

    Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin on Monday pled guilty and agreed to pay $297 million for failing to implement anti-money laundering protocols and allowing more than $5 billion worth of criminal funds to flow through its trading platform.

  • January 27, 2025

    Fund Tells Jury No Need To Return $11M Short-Swing Profits

    A hedge fund told a Denver federal jury Monday that the $11 million it earned from the short-swing sales of a biopharmaceutical company's stock doesn't need to be returned because the transactions fall under an exception to securities law on insider trading.

  • January 27, 2025

    Archegos CFO Gets 8 Years For $100M Stock Fraud Ploy

    The former chief financial officer of defunct hedge fund Archegos on Monday was sentenced in New York federal court to eight years in prison for his role in a $100 billion scheme to manipulate the market and defraud banks.

Expert Analysis

  • Impact Of Successful Challenges To SEC's Rulemaking Ability

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    In 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission faced significant legal challenges to its aggressive rulemaking agenda as several of its rules were vacated by the Fifth Circuit, which could hinder the SEC's ability to enact rules extending beyond express statutory authority in the future, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • A Look At PCAOB's Record-Breaking Enforcement In 2024

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    The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in 2024 brought more enforcement actions against auditors and imposed increasingly higher monetary penalties, showing that it was not afraid to exercise its power to fine and reprimand firms, a trend that will likely continue in 2025, say attorneys at Briglia Hundley.

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    Exercising On My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While I originally came to the Peloton bike for exercise, one cycling instructor’s teachings have come to serve as a road map for practicing law thoughtfully and mindfully, which has opened opportunities for growth and change in my career, says Andrea Kirshenbaum at Littler.

  • Takeaways From SEC's Mixed Results In '24 Crypto Litigation

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    Though the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new leadership seems likely to create a more favorable cryptocurrency regulatory environment, it must also confront the consequences of, and lingering questions raised by, the SEC's 2024 policy of investigating and charging cryptocurrency trading platforms for operating unregistered exchanges, say attorneys at Dechert.

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    In The CFPB Playbook: A Sprint To The Finish Line

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    The fourth quarter of 2024 was an impressive demonstration of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ability to regulate, enforce and supervise, even on borrowed time following the election results, and we should expect the current bureau to run nonstop until Jan. 20, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Predicting What's Next For SEC By Looking At Past Dissents

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    While Paul Atkins' nomination to be the next chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has taken center stage, an analysis of Republican Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda's past votes and dissents provides a preview of where enforcement may shift in the new administration, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation

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    Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.

  • What 2024's Noncompete Turmoil Means For Banks In 2025

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    A look back at the most significant legal challenges to the enforceability of various restrictive covenants like noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements in 2024 can help financial institutions address the use of these critical tools this year, say attorneys at Maynard Nexsen.

  • New Year, New Risks: 8 Top Cyber Issues For Finance In 2025

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    As financial institutions forge ahead in 2025, they must strike a delicate balance between embracing technological innovation and guarding against its darker threats, which this year could include everything from supply chain vulnerabilities to deepfakes, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.

  • 5th Circ.'s Nasdaq Ruling Another Piece In DEI Policy Puzzle

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    The Fifth Circuit's recent en banc opinion vacating Nasdaq's board diversity listing rule wades into the hotly debated topic of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at a time when many public companies are navigating the attention that DEI commitments are drawing from activists and shareholders, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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    Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.

  • The 6 Most Significant FCRA Litigation Developments Of 2024

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    From a key sovereign immunity decision at the U.S. Supreme Court to a ruling on creditworthiness out of the Seventh Circuit, several important Fair Credit Reporting Act cases wound their way through the courts in 2024, each offering takeaways for both plaintiffs and defendants, say attorneys at Shipkevich.

  • An Associate's Guide To Career Development In 2025

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    As the new year begins, associates at all levels should consider establishing career metrics, fostering key relationships and employing other specific strategies to help move through the complexities of the legal profession with confidence and emerge as trailblazers, say EJ Stern and Amanda George at Fractional Law Firm.

  • The Securities Litigation Trends That Will Matter Most In 2025

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    2025 is shaping up to be a significant year for securities litigation, as plaintiffs and defendants alike navigate shifting standards for omission theories of liability, class certification, risk disclosure claims and more, say attorneys at Willkie.

  • How White Collar Enforcement May Shift In Trump's 2nd Term

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    After President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next month, the administration’s emphasis on immigration laws, drug offenses and violent crime will likely reduce the focus on white collar crime overall, but certain areas within the white collar world may see increased activity, say attorneys at Keker Van Nest.

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