NY trial of ex-P&G, Goldman board member starts

Posted by Fox News | May 20th, 2012

Defense lawyers say they'll argue Gupta was a straight-shooter who only shared public information with the billionaire hedge fund boss, as devoted to raising money for charity as to Goldman's bottom line. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in ...
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INSIGHT-China pays high price to spare state firm from bankruptcy

Posted by Reuters | May 20th, 2012

"It seems odd if the company is only repaying the CP but not the other debt," said Shi Lei, vice-director of fixed-income at Ping An Securities. Such bailouts reinforce the preferential access to credit enjoyed by state firms, which analysts say makes ...
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Ex-Goldman director Rajat Gupta set for insider trading trial

Posted by CNNMoney | May 20th, 2012

Gupta's lawyers did not respond to requests for comment, though they are fighting the charges and have previously called the government's case "totally baseless." Gupta "did not trade in any securities, did not tip Mr. Rajaratnam so he could trade, ...
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Posted by The Province | May 20th, 2012

Other bright lights included Lawyer Show mainstay Gerald Lecovin, QC, Lecovin and Co.; Ashley Syer, Syer Law; Elizabeth Reid and Roger Watts, Boughton Law Corp.; Laura Cundari, Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP; Kristine Mactaggart Wright, BC Securities ...
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Dimon's honesty has helped him, so far

Posted by Columbus Dispatch | May 20th, 2012

Given the threat of shareholder lawsuits โ€” and several have been filed โ€” securities lawyers and crisis managers say executives would be well-served to avoid phrases such as โ€œegregious errors.โ€ Gerry Silk, a plaintiff's attorney with Bernstein ...
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Bourque Industries CEO may face prison

Posted by Arizona Daily Star | May 20th, 2012

Public companies are required to disclose executive officers' past criminal convictions only if they involve securities law or fraud, said Don Davis, a Los Angeles lawyer who advises Bourque on matters of securities law.
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Should we raise taxes on Wall Street?

Posted by Washington Post (blog) | May 20th, 2012

The idea, admits tax lawyer Lee Sheppard, would prompt bankers to โ€œlook at you balefully, like you just ran over their dog.โ€ (TIMOTHY A. CLARY - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) But advocates for higher taxes on Wall Street trading hope the proposal gets a second ...
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Posted by (author unknown) | May 20th, 2012

Securities law. Securities laws came into effect after the Great Depression. In the 1920s, companies issued securities back by extraordinary promises of high ...
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New financial services watchdog for UAE

Posted by The National | May 19th, 2012

... head of banking and finance at Habib Al Mulla, the law firm advising the Ministry of Finance as sponsor of the law. Responsibility for conduct of business will move from the Central Bank to a beefed-up Securities and Commodities Association, ...
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No bail for Italian sailors in India despite envoy protest

Posted by IBNLive.com | May 19th, 2012

A lawyer for the defence said they would appeal. India says the case of marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone is a matter for the courts and cannot be influenced by political or diplomatic pressure. Italy wants the men tried at home and ...
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Galleon prosecutor aims to cement legacy in Gupta trial

Posted by CNBC.com | May 19th, 2012

REVOLVING DOOR There is always a revolving door between the Justice Department and big law firms. Jonathan Macey, a corporate finance and securities law professor at Yale Law School, said turnover is to be expected with long-running cases and there are ...
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Bixby fraudster seeks to avoid prison

Posted by Minneapolis Star Tribune | May 19th, 2012

"Mr. Collyard intends to pursue establishing an organization for metro children that emphasizes business and entrepreneurial ethics," attorney Thomas Brever wrote. The motion argues that he was not a central player in the Bixby securities fraud, ...
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Gupta's disarming lawyer seeks victory where Rajaratnam's failed

Posted by Danbury News Times | May 19th, 2012

Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, for his trial last year on insider-trading charges, selected as his lawyer a combative ex-Marine who cursed at a cameraman after court one day. The jury, citing overwhelming evidence, voted to convict.
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SEC joins probe of Chipotle hiring practices

Posted by Reuters | May 19th, 2012

By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an expanding investigation into its alleged hiring of undocumented workers. The Denver-based company fired about 500 ...
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The JOBS Act โ€“ Jammin' On Business Startups

Posted by JD Supra (press release) | May 19th, 2012

President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law last month. The Act is not named after the late entrepreneur, but had he lived to see its passage, I think Steve might have approved. In this case JOBS stands for Jumpstart Our Business Startups.
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Banks Suing Over MBIA Restructuring Finish Opening Arguments

Posted by Bloomberg | May 19th, 2012

Lawyers for banks seeking to overturn New York state regulators' approval of bond insurer MBIA Inc.'s restructuring in 2009 completed their opening arguments after three days. New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick in Manhattan is ...
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Fla. man pleads guilty to running Internet-based Ponzi scheme; thousands of

Posted by Washington Post | May 19th, 2012

A lawyer for Bowdoin did not immediately return a call or email seeking comment. No sentencing date was set. A June 12 hearing will determine whether he can remain free until his sentencing. Bowdoin never revealed to investors that he had been ...
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Swatch loses to Bloomberg LP over analyst call

Posted by Reuters | May 19th, 2012

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed Swatch Group SA's lawsuit accusing the news service Bloomberg LP of secretly recording a conference call with securities analysts and providing a transcript to clients without permission.
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USDOJ: Two Stock Promoters, a Stock Trader and a Securities Lawyer Sentenced

Posted by 7thSpace Interactive (press release) | May 19th, 2012

WASHINGTON โ€“ Two stock promoters, a securities lawyer and a stock trader associated with a Costa Rican brokerage firm were sentenced today in the Southern District of Florida for their participation in a stock manipulation scheme that defrauded ...
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Be wary of extraordinary returns

Posted by Stamford Advocate | May 19th, 2012

Regular readers of this column know that I make my living as a money manager and that I got my start on Wall Street as a securities lawyer. As such, I am a skeptic of out-sized returns -- and so are the regulators. Under the Securities and Exchange ...
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For tech companies, patents can be cash cows, huge legal expense

Posted by Bizjournals.com | May 19th, 2012

A survey published by the American Intellectual Property Law Association found that when $25 million was at risk, companies spent $5 million on legal fees. While most people's eyes glaze over when you mention patents and intellectual property law, ...
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MF Global $1 Billion Vanished Into Brokerage, Court Told

Posted by BusinessWeek | May 19th, 2012

Miller said money will come into the estate from the liquidation of securities positions and other assets, making it clearer how professionals will be paid. Dewey, once the 11th-largest law firm, is collecting bills to pay lenders owed $200 million ...
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Juniper Networks GC Mitchell Gaynor on Helping the Business Grow

Posted by Corporate Counsel | May 18th, 2012

He graduated from UC-Hastings law school in 1984 and took his first job as an associate at now-defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison as "a general purpose business and securities lawyer." The one thing Gaynor was never cut out for was litigation, ...
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Business and Entertainment Litigator Larry S. Greenfield Joins Wolf, Rifkin

Posted by MarketWatch (press release) | May 18th, 2012

LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP announced that Larry S. Greenfield has joined their West Los Angeles-based law firm effective May 1, 2012, as a partner in their Litigation & Dispute ...
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New York Firm Brought Into Big Education Case

Posted by Connecticut Law Tribune | May 18th, 2012

Cantwell grew up in Greenwich and was an assistant US attorney in New York before joining Debevoise, where her practice focuses on defending those charged with white collar crimes and targeted by Securities and Exchange Commission investigations.
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Glaxo's Stiefel Unit Loses $1.5 Million Verdict on Buybacks

Posted by Bloomberg | May 18th, 2012

Last December, the US Securities and Exchange Commission sued, claiming Stiefel and its former CEO defrauded shareholders from 2006 to 2009. It seeks more than $110 million for shareholders. โ€œOur client is obviously overjoyed, but the outpouring of ...
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Investors: Where's Our Money?

Posted by LoanSafe | May 18th, 2012

The company's owners, Steve Brunner, a former lawyer from Ohio who specialized in real estate, and his wife, Sherry Brunner, claimed to have had more than 3000 individuals, companies and trusts enlisted in the project in 2007.
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Where are institutional investors in JPMorgan securities cases

Posted by Alison Frankel | May 18th, 2012

My colleague Tom Hals at Reuters has written about some of the hurdles JPMorgan shareholders will have to leap over in a securities class action based on the CDS trading losses, but three plaintiffs' lawyers I talked to all said their pension ...
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JPMorgan Suits Accuse Dimon Of Fraud — For Doing What, Exactly?

Posted by Forbes | May 18th, 2012

(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Even as I was writing a piece Monday morning about the inevitability of securities-fraud lawsuits over JPMorgan Chase's $3 billion trading mess, lawyers were busily cutting and pasting familiar language to ...
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Facebook's IPO Finra Test, TARP Sale, Bank Reports: Compliance

Posted by Bloomberg | May 18th, 2012

Securities of such borrowers would become harder to trade and companies may be forced to borrow from less regulated lenders such as private equity firms and hedge funds, according to the Fitch report, called โ€œBasel III: Return and Deleveraging ...
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Vivendi Sued for $818 Million for Misleading Investors

Posted by BusinessWeek | May 18th, 2012

By Jeremy Hodges on May 18, 2012 Vivendi SA (VIV) and Jean-Marie Messier are being sued for 644.5 million euros ($818 million) in Paris by for misleading them between 2000 and 2002, a lawyer for the claimants said. The suit, filed by 67 investors at ...
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Aquino appoints 2 new judges to Cebu courts

Posted by Sun.Star | May 18th, 2012

She worked as Attorney in the Securities and Exchange Commission, Legislative Consultant of the City Council of Cebu City and Partner in Tanco & Partners Law Offices. - Judge Juvencio Gascon as the presiding judge of the Pasig RTC branch 68.
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Dechert eyes Shanghai launch as part of China expansion

Posted by The Lawyer | May 18th, 2012

The new partner, Wang Weidong, was most recently a partner at Beijing-headquartered DeHeng Law Offices, one of China's largest law firms by headcount. Wang, who is admitted to practise in New York, is head of the DeHeng's venture capital market private ...
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Mayer Brown, Cleary, Davis Polk, Dewey: Business of Law

Posted by Bloomberg | May 18th, 2012

Theiss, 52, who specializes in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets, is a member of the firm's management committee and a former co-leader of its global corporate and securities practice. A focus of his three-year chairmanship will be on the ...
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THIS WEEK IN SECURITIES LITIGATION (Week ending May 18

Posted by T. Gorman | May 18th, 2012

Filed May 16, 2012) is an action against securities law recidivist Nicholas Geranio, his long time business associate Keith Field, and two entities he controlled, The Good One, Inc. and Kaleidoscope Real Estate, Inc. The defendants ...
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Jon Corzine โ€” What's Going On?

Posted by Ethical Markets | May 18th, 2012

... Global had been a publically traded securities firm with $40 billion in assets, but with liabilities even larger, filed for bankruptcy late last year, after being accused of co-mingling customer funds with its own, a flagrant violation of securities law ...
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Crowdfunding security in question

Posted by Denver Business Journal | May 18th, 2012

Jackie Benson, partner and vice chair of securities and capital markets for Denver law firm Moye White LLP, says, โ€œA lot of people are excited about the idea of using the Internet and social media to raise money in a way they couldn't before.
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Securities and Exchange Commission faces heat from Democrats over settlements

Posted by Washington Post | May 18th, 2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices corporations, can usually count on support from Democrats and a rougher reception from Republicans. But, on Thursday, the agency found an issue on which its traditional friends are its critics and ...
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Analysis: JPMorgan CEO gets crisis marks but war isn't over

Posted by Reuters | May 18th, 2012

Given the threat of shareholder lawsuits -- and several have already been filed -- securities lawyers and crisis managers both said executives would be well-served to avoid phrases like "egregious errors." The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ...
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Business Bulletin Board

Posted by STLtoday.com | May 18th, 2012

Neighbors Credit Union is partnering with Midwestern Securities Trading Co. LLC to operate the new Neighbors Investment Services. Viola L. Pancratz, principal and co-founder of St. Louis-based Project Controls Group Inc., received the Association for ...
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Business news briefs for 05/18/12

Posted by Pittsburgh Post Gazette | May 18th, 2012

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has acquired seven-lawyer litigation boutique Manion McDonough & Lucas, which opened in 1985. Joining as shareholders are Joseph F. McDonough, Kevin P. Lucas, James G. McLean, James R. Walker and Robert D. Finkel.
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Gupta's Lawyer Seeks Victory Where Rajaratnam's Failed

Posted by BusinessWeek | May 18th, 2012

(PG) (PG) board, is charged with conspiracy and securities fraud. Prosecutors say he gave Rajaratnam material, nonpublic information about New York-based Goldman Sachs and Cincinnati-based P&G, the world's largest consumer-products company.
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SEC looking at hedge fund as part of CDO inquiry

Posted by Reuters | May 18th, 2012

A lawyer for Steffelin, whose case is still pending, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. JPMorgan Chase & Co then sold the CDO to investors, who did not know Magnetar had a $600 million bet against some of the loans and securities ...
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ames Burns Named Deputy Director in SEC's Division of Trading and Markets

Posted by Citybizlist (press release) | May 18th, 2012

Before joining the SEC in 2008, Mr. Burns was a securities lawyer in private practice who focused on investment management and broker-dealer regulatory and enforcement matters. He previously served as a law clerk to now-chief Judge William B. Traxler ...
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Seattle investment adviser charged in $47 million fraud

Posted by The Seattle Times | May 18th, 2012

A federal grand jury Thursday indicted Spangler on 23 criminal counts, including wire fraud, money laundering and investment-adviser fraud, according to the US Attorney's Office. Parallel civil charges were filed by the Securities and Exchange ...
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Roest gets six-and-a-half years' jail

Posted by Stuff.co.nz | May 18th, 2012

ROB ROEST: Ex Bridgecorp director was sentenced in the High Court after being convicted on 18 Crimes and Securities Act charges. Former Bridgecorp director Rob Roest has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison following his conviction on ...
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Alleged 'boiler room' mastermind charged

Posted by NEWS.com.au | May 18th, 2012

An investigation led by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and involving the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and other global financial watchdogs has allegedly unearthed a scheme created by Hawaiian resident Nicholas Louis ...
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