Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Director of Enforcement celebrated a jury verdict in its insider trading case against Matthew Panuwat:
Is The SEC's Shadow Trading Win Proof That There Is A Federal Common Law Of Crime After All?
Posted on April 08, 2024
Hacking EDGAR And Insider Trading
Posted on September 28, 2017
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton launched a sea of news stories last week when he included the following five sentence in a statement on cybersecurity:
Scienter In The News Again
Posted on September 01, 2017
In May, I wrote about Judge Gonzolo P. Curiel’s decision to grant the defendants’ motion to dismiss federal and state securities law claims in Mueller v. San Diego Entm’t Partners, LLC, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77643 (S.D. Cal. May 22, 2017). I...
Did Joseph P. Kennedy Make Insider Trading Illegal?
Posted on April 12, 2017
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. (Penguin Press, 2012) by Professor David Nasaw is one of several books that I am currently reading. As a securities lawyer, the following sentence gave me pause:
Why Bassam Salman Should Not Have Been Convicted
Posted on March 13, 2017
A lot of ink has been spilt on the United States Supreme Court's decision in Salman v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 420 (2016). In that case, the Supreme Court upheld the criminal conviction of Mr. Bassam Salman who received lucrative trading tips from...
