/securities?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Securities Copyright 2025 °µÍø½ûÇø. en-US Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:03:36 +0000 /securities/articles/2348029?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2348029 Fintech startup Chime Financial Inc. on Monday launched plans for an estimated $800 million initial public offering, while stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial Inc. increased its expected IPO size to about $880 million, boosting a recovering IPO pipeline. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:57:05 +0000 /securities/articles/2347877?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347877 Delaware's corporation law courts have overshadowed the entire federal court system for some class attorney fees based on multiples of usual rate benchmarks, according to two Stanford Law School researchers whose findings have already caught the attention of a top state lawmaker. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:40:49 +0000 /securities/articles/2343438?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2343438 Two key digital asset enforcement policy pronouncements narrow the Justice Department's focus on threats like fraud, terrorism, trafficking and sanctions evasion and dial back so-called regulation by prosecution, but institutions prioritizing compliance must remember that the underlying statutory framework hasn't changed, say attorneys at Blank Rome. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:04:30 +0000 /securities/articles/2339075?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2339075 Ned Weinberger, a partner at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, said he never expected that his clients' suit challenging a $23.9 billion Dell Technologies Inc. stock swap would reach a whopping $1 billion settlement, let alone result in the largest prejudgment recovery ever achieved in a fiduciary duty action in the Delaware Chancery Court. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:51:35 +0000 /securities/articles/2346121?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2346121 At the Practising Law Institute's recent SEC Speaks conference, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leadership highlighted the agency's significant priority changes, including in enforcement, crypto and artificial intelligence, say attorneys at Perkins Coie. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:33:30 +0000 /securities/articles/2340978?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2340978 As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:07:58 +0000 /securities/articles/2347418?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347418 In this month's review of ongoing defamation fights, °µÍø½ûÇø looks back on developments in a man's case against Frito-Lay Inc. over what he called the company's defamatory statements disputing his role in the invention of a flavor of Cheetos. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:17:06 +0000 /securities/articles/2347999?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347999 The U.S. Supreme Court invited the solicitor general Monday to file a brief in car rental giant Hertz's challenge to a Third Circuit ruling that as a solvent debtor it owed noteholders $272 million in interest and fees when it emerged from Chapter 11. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:54:09 +0000 /securities/articles/2346255?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2346255 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case calling into question the constitutionality of the in-house disciplinary process used by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, rejecting an appeal by a broker-dealer facing expulsion from the industry. Fri, 30 May 2025 22:56:49 +0000 /securities/articles/2346773?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2346773 Biotechnology company UroGen Pharma Ltd. and three current and former executives are facing a proposed investor class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the company failed to disclose methodology flaws affecting a study of its lead drug candidate that ultimately doomed its bid for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. Fri, 30 May 2025 22:21:25 +0000 /securities/articles/2347167?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347167 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's dismissal of its lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance paved the way for its staff's same-day statement that many "staking" services are no longer subject to agency jurisdiction, according to the SEC's sole Democrat, who criticized the move as conflicting with a pair of court decisions the agency won. Fri, 30 May 2025 21:48:10 +0000 /securities/articles/2347369?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347369 Delaware's governor wants to weigh in on a potential Delaware Supreme Court midcase review of a controversial state corporation law overhaul that limits the liability of directors and controlling investors for allegedly self-interested corporate acts. Fri, 30 May 2025 21:27:41 +0000 /securities/articles/2347325?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347325 A New York federal judge said Friday that she won't direct federal prosecutors to conduct a review for additional evidence in their case against Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm despite the defense's claims that a recent disclosure in a separate crypto mixer prosecution could impact Storm's defense. Fri, 30 May 2025 21:21:57 +0000 /securities/articles/2346886?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2346886 Equity crowdfunding and expanded Regulation A offerings have grown slowly since going live over the past decade, according to new data, leaving open questions on whether regulators will ease rules to bolster these alternatives to traditional capital raising. Fri, 30 May 2025 20:20:40 +0000 /securities/articles/2288362?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2288362 A Florida federal judge on Friday sentenced the former president of a trucking and logistics company to 23 years in prison for defrauding more than 1,600 people who invested millions of dollars in purchasing big-rig vehicles, calling the crime "a classic Ponzi scheme of staggering scale." Fri, 30 May 2025 19:38:38 +0000 /securities/articles/2347300?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347300 A former senior official with Wells Fargo Bank NA has filed suit in a California federal court to force the bank to comply with an order from a U.S. Department of Labor agency finding he is entitled to more than $20 million for purported retaliation after he blew the whistle on legal concerns and was subsequently fired. Fri, 30 May 2025 19:10:22 +0000 /securities/articles/2347427?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2347427 The wife of a bitcoin investor sentenced to prison for concealing millions of dollars from the IRS asked a Texas federal court Friday to stop the federal government from taking her money to help make up for $1 million in restitution stemming from his cryptocurrency sales. Fri, 30 May 2025 18:04:18 +0000 /securities/articles/2344138?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2344138 Recently proposed regulations under California's Digital Financial Assets Law answer some important questions about the new regime, particularly regarding its interaction with the state's money transmission law, but many key compliance questions remain, say attorneys at Stinson. Fri, 30 May 2025 17:53:49 +0000 /securities/articles/2346567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2346567 While some of the big changes at the U.S. Department of Justice during the second Trump administration — like an embrace of cryptocurrency and more politicized prosecutions — were expected, there have also been surprises, so practitioners should advise clients to stay focused on white collar compliance in this unpredictable environment, say attorneys at Keker. Fri, 30 May 2025 17:49:31 +0000 /securities/articles/2346697?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /securities/articles/2346697 The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.