Conceptus Investor Can’t Block $1.2B Bayer Acquisition
- A Delaware Chancery judge refused Friday to block Bayer AG’s imminent $1.2...
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Stock trader at RIA charged with front running
- The SEC claims a senior equity trader at an RIA made big bucks front running cli...
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JPML Head Says New Mix Of Cases Makes Panel More Picky
- The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has rejected a higher percen...
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US-China Audit Truce Offers Weak Shield For Investors
- A Friday agreement allowing U.S. regulators to seek documents from Chinese accou...
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Spotlight On REIT Brokers Will Spur More Suits, Fines
- More states are likely to follow suit after Massachusetts fined several of the l...
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First Circuit Revives CVS Shareholder Fraud Class Action
- The First Circuit on Friday revived a CVS Caremark Corp. shareholder class actio...
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Fiduciary Duty To IPO Clients Hangs By Thread In NY Appeal
- In taking claims that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. fleeced a now-defunct toy maker b...
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US Bank Sued Over Robosigning, Mismanaged RMBS Trusts
- Banks and asset managers in Missouri, Arkansas and South Carolina have sued U.S....
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High Court's Morrison Ruling Keeps Attys Guessing
- Nearly three years later, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Morr...
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US Trustee, Banks Slam AMR Bankruptcy Exit Plan
- The U.S. trustee in AMR Corp.’s bankruptcy Friday objected to the airliner...
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SEC Ordered To Provide Docs To Ex-SAC Trader
- A federal judge on Friday said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must ...
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Job cuts at the Advisor Group
- The Advisor Group, the IBD owned by AIG, laid off employees this week. Sources o...
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N.Y. attorney general says more evidence banks violated mortgage pact
- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that...
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Jury Convicts 4 Bank Of Commonwealth Insiders In $71M Fraud
- A Virginia federal jury Friday convicted former Bank of the Commonwealth CEO Edw...
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SEC Charges Dallas-Based Trader With Front Running
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Obama nominates Senate aides to serve as SEC commissioners
- Pending Senate approval, Kara Stein will replace Democrat Elisse Walter, and Mic...
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Ally settlement may be a boon for ResCap bondholders
- While bond insurers MBIA Inc and FGIC Corp receive the lion's share of Ally Fin...
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KPMG can't arbitrate claims by Madoff feeder fund investors - court
- A group of investors who lost $20 million in a fund that funneled money into Ber...
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U.S. audit regulator reaches deal with China on document access
- Regulators will get access to Chinese companies' audit documents, opening the wa...
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Obama Nominates 2 Senate Aides As SEC Commissioners
- President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated two senior Senate aides to serve as...
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Ex-LPL adviser charged with stealing $2M from clients
- LPL finds itself in the headlines for the third time this week as a former advis...
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Starboard Seizes Control At Tessera With Last-Minute Deal
- Starboard Value LP took control of Tessera Technologies Inc. through a last-minu...
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SEC's 1st Proxy Firm Action Hints At New Compliance Focus
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's first-ever suit against a prox...
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SIPC Moves To Wind Down NY Brokerage Accused Of Fraud
- The Securities Investor Protection Corp. asked for court permission Thursday to ...
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SEC Files $1.7M Insider Trading Suit Against Cushing Broker
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday launched an insider trad...
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Lehman To Reap Up To $2B From Pair Of REIT Stock Offerings
- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. will unload roughly 50 percent of its stake in res...
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Regulator Cites Flaws In Ernst & Young Procedures
- The top U.S. accounting watchdog on Thursday said that Ernst & Young LLP did not...
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Large retailers sue Visa, MasterCard over card fees
- The lawsuit comes ahead of a deadline for the millions of merchants affected by ...
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Proxy advisory firm settles SEC charges over data breach
- An employee of the prominent proxy advisory firm was accused of sharing nonpubli...
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Chevron Investors Seek SEC Probe Over $19B Ecuador Battle
- A coalition of Chevron Corp. shareholders asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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