Asset Management
Asset Management Law360 provides breaking legal news and analysis on the asset management industry. Coverage includes litigation, policy developments, and corporate deals involving investment firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, bond funds, pension funds, and real estate investment trusts.
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Latest News in Asset Management
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January 18, 2019
Madoff Investors Can't Evade Clawback By Withdrawing Claim
A Manhattan bankruptcy judge rejected arguments by three “net winners” in the Madoff Ponzi scheme on Friday that he lost authority to hear a $2.8 million clawback action against them when they dropped their own claim against the bankruptcy estate.
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January 18, 2019
Bitcoin Boss Deserves 2 1/2 Years For SEC Lies, Gov't Says
Alternative currency purveyor Jon E. Montroll should serve about 2 1/2 years in prison for lying to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and defrauding customers after hackers stole 6,000 bitcoins from his businesses, prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge.
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January 18, 2019
2nd Circ. Won't Budge On Reviving IBM Workers' ERISA Suit
The Second Circuit won’t rethink its decision to revive a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action accusing IBM of wrongly investing its workers’ retirement savings into overvalued company stock, the court ruled Friday.
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January 18, 2019
BofA Tells High Court 401(k) Row Was Decided Correctly
Bank of America Corp. urged the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to not review a case seeking to compel a judge to force the bank to disgorge 401(k) plan transaction profits, saying the judge correctly found no profits existed, and he shouldn’t have to issue an inappropriate remedy.
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January 18, 2019
IHeartMedia Clears Ch. 11 Path With Legacy Noteholder Deal
IHeartMedia Inc. has inked a deal with a contingent of its legacy holders who had protested the radio broadcast giant's bid to emerge from Chapter 11 in Texas, giving them $4 million in fees and allowing $544 million in legacy note claims.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Initial public offerings
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Spinoffs
- Franchise and management agreements
- Real estate deals
- Shareholder activism involving hedge funds and hedge fund managers
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Internal Revenue Service
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Financial company lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Bankruptcies involving assets managed by hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, or other investment managers
- Restructuring and distressed debt issues
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of asset management practices
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the asset management industry
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals