Tag:SEC

Clients and Lawyers Face Broad Range of Cryptocurrency Risks

To many lawyers, cryptocurrencies might seem like an asset category operating on the fringes. However, 10% of all Americans (and one-third of all Millennials)...

Supreme Court: Messengers of False Statements Still Liable for Securities Fraud

When the Securities and Exchange Commission or private investors go after corporate figures for making false statements to investors, the disseminators of those statements...

2018 Lawyers Of The Year: Keith Trammell

Friends warned Keith Trammell how challenging it is to change law firms. But not even they could anticipate the kind of year Trammell was...

SEC Stats Paint Picture of Priorities, Impediments

In the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest collection of statistics, companies and their counsel can see an agency trying to do more with less. On...

Crypto Tokens: Security or Currency?

Since the arrival of Bitcoin in 2009, the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency, securities attorneys, officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and others...

Path Forward Remains Uncertain for SEC’s ALJ Cases

The securities world’s collective eyes were on the Supreme Court and whether it would find the Securities and Exchange Commission’s administrative law judge system...

Cautious Optimism Underscored at Oil and Gas Finance Forum

Merger and finance activity in the oil and gas industry has been tricky to predict, given its economic fluctuations in recent years. A slate...

Department of Justice to Expand Self-Disclosure Program

The U.S. Department of Justice favors its cooperation program for foreign bribery cases enough that it wants to apply it to other white-collar criminal...