 Death Sentence for Chinese Woman Convicted of $70 Million Ponzi Scheme
- A Chinese woman who masterminded a $70 million Ponzi scheme has been
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Hundreds Of Americans Rip Up Passports To Avoid FATCA
- A recent headline in IFC Review declared that hundreds of Americans were ripp...
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Trolling for Dollars*
- This week’s spin of the Panel wheel landed imPaneled on a new proceedin...
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Winston & Strawn Faces DQ Bid In Calif. City Bankruptcies
- Citing an alleged conflict of interest, the California Public Employees’ R...
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Hedge Fund Sues For Proxy Fight Rematch With Digirad
- Hedge fund Red Oak Partners LLC sued Wednesday seeking to force a rematch in its...
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SAC To Scale Back Cooperation With Insider Trading Probe
- SAC Capital Advisors LLC reportedly informed its investors Friday that it was re...
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JPMorgan Backs Dimon Before Shareholder Vote On Split Role
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Thursday urged shareholders to reject a proposal by acti...
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Investor Says Bain's $7B Bid For Software Co. Is Too Low
- A pension fund that invests in Houston-based BMC Software Inc. on Thursday sued ...
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Drug Co. Scores Partial Win In Suit Over Botched Offering
- A Delaware judge on Thursday granted a partial win to Emmaus Life Sciences Inc. ...
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Company Control Not Just About Share Count, Chancery Says
- Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster laid out a broad definition of “controlli...
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Alternatives crackdown continues as Finra fines VSR
- More pain for broker-dealers as Finra fines another alternatives specialist. One...
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Fewer advisers than expected switch to state oversight
- Back in 2009, regulators predicted that 4,000 investment advisers would shift fr...
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Continental Ducks Shareholder Suit Over $313M Oil Asset Buy
- An Oklahoma federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Continental R...
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ING Gave Morgan Stanley Kickbacks For 401(k) Biz, Suit Says
- An Alabama medical laboratory filed a proposed class action in New York federal ...
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Credit Agricole Slams Lehman's $34M Terminated-Swaps Suit
- Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank on Friday urged a New York bankrup...
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What's now and what's next for Morgan Stanley's new trade tool
- Trade Flow Insights provides brokers with across-the-board product sales data an...
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Rise Of The Machines — Predictive Coding Goes Mainstream
- The pros of using predictive coding far outweigh the cons. Given the heavy press...
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Ex-Broker Gets Probation For Muni Bond Bid-Rigging
- After cooperating with a sweeping multistate investigation, the former CEO of a ...
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Judge blocks $13 mln arbitration against SunTrust
- The federal judge's ruling prevents hedge fund Turnberry Capital Management from...
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Rakoff Gives Dexia's $774M JPMorgan MBS Suit 2nd Life
- U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Friday vacated an earlier decision dismissi...
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Juniper Ducks Securities Suit Over Alleged Misstatements
- A California federal judge on Friday threw out a putative class action brought a...
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Schwab Fund's Changes Breached Contract, 9th Circ. Hears
- Northstar Financial Advisors Inc. urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to revive it...
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Ex-financial adviser gets probation for muni bid-rigging
- The former chief of the now-defunct Kane Capital Strategies was sentenced to two...
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SunTrust Blocks FINRA Arbitration In MBS Row
- SunTrust Banks Inc. on Friday won its bid to thwart a Financial Industry Regulat...
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Elliott, Compuware Extend Standstill, Keep Proxy Door Open
- Elliott Management Corp., the hedge fund that offered to buy Compuware Corp. for...
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Icahn Loses Transocean Dividend Fight, But Wins Board Seat
- Shareholders of offshore oil rigging giant Transocean Ltd. voted Friday to appro...
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Q&A With McKenna Long's Thomas Wardell
- We need to accelerate training for lawyers in understanding financial statements...
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Tessera, Under Siege, Attracts Another Hedge Fund
- Tessera Technologies Inc., the semiconductor maker already fending off demands f...
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Stockbroker Fraud Post – Brokers Back Away From Alternative Investments
- Many of stockbroker fraud cases we see involve alternative investments –...
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Schwab Eliminate Class Action Waiver in Customers' Agreements -- At Least For Now
- As regular readers of this Blog know, Charles Schwab includes in its brokerage a...
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