Capital Markets

Capital Markets Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on the capital markets sector. Coverage includes stock and bond offerings, mortgage-backed securities, foreign exchange, follow-on offerings, and debt deals, as well as related litigation and policy developments.



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Latest News in Capital Markets

  • March 06, 2026

    Breyer Urges Attys In Heated Twitter Investor Trial To Cool Off

    The judge overseeing a California federal trial over Twitter investors' allegations that Elon Musk intentionally tanked the company's stock urged lawyers to cool down over the weekend and "gain composure," after a heated fight in which a lawyer for the investors called a Musk attorney's conduct disgraceful.

  • March 06, 2026

    Calif. Judge Blasts Ex-Venture Capitalist In Axing SVB Suit

    Convicted venture capitalist and self-described "Silicon Valley's party animal" Michael Rothenberg's conduct in his lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acting on behalf of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, "consisted almost entirely of ignoring or frustrating" his litigation obligations, a California federal judge ruled in throwing out the case.

  • March 06, 2026

    EisnerAmper Settles SEC Allegations Over Infinity Q Audit

    Audit firm EisnerAmper LLP will not have to pay a fine to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations tied to its 2020 audit of an Infinity Q Capital Management LLC mutual fund at the center of a criminal overvaluation case.

  • March 06, 2026

    FinCEN Hits Canaccord With Record $80M Broker-Dealer Fine

    Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.'s broker-dealer arm Friday agreed to pay $80 million in settlements with three financial regulators for "widespread compliance failures" that allowed some securities fraud schemes to go undetected, with the broker-dealer admitting it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

  • March 06, 2026

    Former Calif. Securities Atty Gets Year For Tax Evasion

    A former Southern California securities attorney Friday was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for evading paying his personal taxes and was ordered to pay over $350,000 in restitution to the IRS.

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  • TRANSACTIONS
  • High-yield debt, corporate bond, convertible debt, and hybrid offerings
  • Share buybacks and stock splits
  • Stock- or debt-funded acquisitions
  • Distressed investments and bankruptcy proceedings
  • Joint ventures
  • Capital instruments, including mezzanine and venture
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Real estate investment trust deals
  • AGENCIES
  • Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
  • U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • European Securities and Markets Authority
  • European Central Bank
  • European Commission
  • UK Financial Conduct Authority
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • Dodd-Frank Act
  • Delaware corporate law
  • Financial company lobbying
  • International banking legislation and regulation
  • LITIGATION
  • Corporate governance cases, including those over leadership changes, executive compensation, and shareholder rights
  • Competition disputes
  • Privacy issues
  • PROFILES
  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of capital markets practices

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