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Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Cal. Serv. Emples. Health & Welfare Trust Fund v. Greenbox Servs. LLC, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 93477 involved a plaintiff's attempt to serve a limited liability company.
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders
The U.S. Courts of Appeal for the First and Second Circuits have split on the issue of whether a plaintiff must satisfy the Second Circuit's "predominantly foreign" test...
Proskauer Rose LLP
The spate of shareholder actions against biotech companies relating to COVID-19 treatments shows no signs of stopping, and now, derivative lawsuits are following the initial wave of securities class actions.
Cooley LLP
How often does this happen? SEC Commissioners Allison Lee (D) and Elad Roisman (R) on the same page?
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
They courageously called attention to the hypocrisy of Pinterest's aspirational comments on social issues even though the company had required them to sign NDAs.
Proskauer Rose LLP
The rash of shareholder derivative actions alleging violations of fiduciary duties tied to companies' diversity measures are continuing to take a beating in the Northern District of California.
Mayer Brown
Global funding for companies in the automotive and mobility sectors fell to $27.6 billion in 2020, a 5% decrease year-over-year, with 522 deals completed according to CB Insights' recent report...
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
SEC Chair Gary Gensler appointed additional members to his executive staff.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
The SEC updated its list of "entities that falsely claim to be registered, licensed, and/or located in the United States in their solicitation of investors."
Cooley LLP
Not only does he want to "freshen up" Rule 10b5-1 (see this PubCo post), SEC Chair Gary Gensler has the same prescription for the rules governing the equity markets.
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
In the novel Contarini Fleming, future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote "with words we govern men". Do words also govern whether a securities class action complaint will be successful?
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Jina Choi spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) drafting a proposal that would restrict plans that corporate insiders use to avoid insider-trading claims ...
Proskauer Rose LLP
SPACs remain on everyone's mind, especially the country's chief regulator. On May 26, 2021, SEC Chair Gary Gensler testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Services...
Cooley LLP
As part of The Lawyer's GCs Summit, Cooley's James Maton, Sascha Grimm and Claire Temple hosted a roundtable, which saw in-house lawyers gather together to share their experiences...
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Kelley Howes spoke to Private Equity Law Report about the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Examinations
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
SEC Chair Gary Gensler solicited nominations for all five of the seats on the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB"), including for the Chair, whom the SEC removed yesterday.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has asked the Commission staff to consider updates to Rule 10b5-1 in an effort to "address cracks" in the current insider...
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
In Orzeck v. Englehart, 195 A.2d 375 (Del. 1963), the Delaware Supreme Court adopted what the Court of Chancery subsequently described as a "bedrock" doctrine of Delaware corporate law - the "Doctrine of Independent Legal Significance".
Cooley LLP
Audit firm Deloitte and the Alliance for Board Diversity have just released the Missing Pieces Report: The Board Diversity Census of Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards...
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
I expect that most plaintiffs in derivative actions do not expect to pay a defendant's attorneys' fees if they lose because under the "American Rule" each side pays their own attorneys' fees, regardless of who wins.
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