Capital Markets

  • June 11, 2026

    SEC Says PE Fund Hiding Info In Sealed Monitor Reports

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a Florida federal court on Wednesday to unseal reports by a court-appointed monitor of a private equity firm accused of defrauding investors in a $1 billion fund, arguing that the firm is abusing a sealing order to hide information from investors.

  • June 11, 2026

    Sports Prediction Co. Wins CFTC OK To Launch Event Market

    Sports prediction company ProphetX on Thursday received approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to register as a federally regulated prediction market exchange focused specifically on sports-based event contracts, becoming the first American sports-native, direct-clearing prediction market to launch and operate in full compliance with federal law.

  • June 11, 2026

    Ex-Bank Chief Admits Role In Odebrecht Tax Evasion Plot

    The former CEO of Austrian lender Meinl Bank AG on Thursday pled guilty in Brooklyn federal court after a yearslong fight over accusations he helped Odebrecht SA hide $170 million in funds used to bribe officials around the world and defraud the Brazilian government out of more than $100 million in taxes. 

  • June 11, 2026

    Another GOP Nominee For SEC Could Violate Law, Dems Say

    Senate Banking Committee Democrats are warning the White House not to put another Republican on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission without also naming a Democrat, saying it would violate a federal mandate for partisan balance.

  • June 11, 2026

    Ex-Pharma Exec Fights SEC 'Shadow Trading' Win At 9th Circ.

    An ex-Medivation Inc. executive urged the Ninth Circuit on Thursday to scrap a jury verdict finding him liable in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's first-ever "shadow trading" case, arguing the company's own policies permitted the trades and affirming the verdict will allow companies to adopt vague trading policies.

  • June 11, 2026

    CFTC Eyes Faster 30% Whistleblower Awards In Small Cases

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is looking to amend its whistleblower rules to align with those of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and to establish an immediate minimum 30% payout for whistleblower awards of $5 million or less.

  • June 11, 2026

    Venezuela Turns To Greenberg Traurig In Citgo Sale Appeal

    Venezuela has tapped heavyweight lawyers from Greenberg Traurig LLP as its new counsel in a Third Circuit appeal challenging a Delaware judge's order greenlighting the nearly $6 billion sale of Citgo to satisfy billions of dollars of the country's debt.

  • June 11, 2026

    Cloudflare Founders Are Sued Over Voting Control Plan

    Technology company Cloudflare Inc. and its founders, Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, are facing a Delaware Chancery Court shareholder lawsuit that seeks to block a proposed recapitalization plan, alleging the transaction would let them continue selling billions of dollars' worth of stock while preserving their voting control over the internet infrastructure company.

  • June 11, 2026

    Investment Adviser Gets 4 Years For Fake Shares Sales

    An Italian citizen who managed a New York-based investment advisory firm will serve four years in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors hoping to access shares of private companies.

  • June 11, 2026

    Via Transportation Hit With Investor Suit Over $493M IPO

    Technology company Via Transportation Inc. and certain executives and underwriters face a proposed investor class action alleging that the company failed to disclose slowing growth and challenges to expanding its business in the German market before its roughly $493 million initial public offering in September 2025.

  • June 11, 2026

    Cancer Diagnostics Firm Ignite Inks $150M SPAC Merger

    Precision oncology startup Ignite Proteomics LLC will merge with special purpose acquisition company Copley Acquisition Corp. in a deal valuing Ignite at a pro forma enterprise value of $150 million, the companies announced Thursday.

  • June 11, 2026

    Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill To Rein In Big Tech Platforms

    Lawmakers reintroduced legislation in the U.S. Senate on Thursday that would impose new rules on large technology platforms, barring them from blocking competition and undermining rivals by giving their own products and services an unfair advantage.

  • June 11, 2026

    3 Firms Guide AI Power Provider ZincFive's $752M SPAC Deal

    ZincFive, a company providing nickel-zinc batteries for data center and artificial intelligence markets, said Thursday it will go public using a special purpose acquisition company merger valuing the enterprise at $752 million, advised by Cooley LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • June 11, 2026

    Justices Curb Private Lawsuits Against Investment Funds

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said that private parties do not have the right to void contracts that allegedly violate the Investment Company Act absent some other legal dispute, issuing a ruling that limits the types of lawsuits that can be brought under the ICA.

  • June 10, 2026

    Gemini Wants In On CFTC's Prediction Market Battle With NY

    Gemini on Wednesday took steps to join the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's prediction market battle with New York regulators, seeking to back the agency's jurisdiction as the platform fends off a separate New York enforcement suit targeting certain sports and election markets as illegal gambling.

  • June 10, 2026

    Rakoff Frees Big Banks From Investors' Tricolor Fraud Suit

    U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday threw out an investor suit accusing JPMorgan, Barclays and Fifth Third of facilitating a sprawling alleged fraud by Tricolor Holdings, the bankrupt subprime auto lender.

  • June 10, 2026

    CFTC Plans To OK Sports Betting On Prediction Markets

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed a rule Wednesday that could govern the way the agency oversees the prediction markets, indicating that trading platforms will be allowed to continue accepting bets on the outcome of professional and college-level sports.

  • June 10, 2026

    Goodwin, Covington Lead Parabilis' $670M Upsized IPO

    Venture-backed biotechnology firm Parabilis Medicines hit the public markets Wednesday after raising $670 million in its upsized initial public offering.

  • June 10, 2026

    Warren Asks SEC To Delay SpaceX IPO Over 'Troubling' Risks

    U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to delay SpaceX's anticipated $75 billion initial public offering until steps are taken to protect investors and market integrity, expressing concerns that the company's books contain "troubling gaps," and the IPO poses "unique and precedent-setting" risk.

  • June 10, 2026

    5 Firms Guide AI Startup Robseek's $1B SPAC Merger

    Robseek Intelligence Inc. has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check company QuasarEdge Acquisition Corp. in a deal valuing the AI company at about $1 billion pre-money equity, with five law firms advising across the U.S., China and offshore jurisdictions. 

  • June 10, 2026

    Gibson Dunn Leads Data Center Power Provider's $600M IPO

    Houston, Texas-based ERock, which supplies natural gas power systems to data centers, began trading Wednesday after raising $600 million at the midpoint of its range with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advising.

  • June 10, 2026

    Tenn. Remittance Tax Is Unconstitutional, Fintech Group Says

    A top fintech industry organization sued Wednesday to block an impending new Tennessee tax on outgoing international money transfers, challenging what the trade group contends is an unconstitutional toll on the billions of dollars sent abroad from the state each year.

  • June 10, 2026

    Figure, Sixth Street Team Up On $717M Kiavi Mortgage Deal

    Figure Technology Solutions said Wednesday it is acquiring residential real estate lender Kiavi in a $717 million deal that pairs a blockchain-native capital markets platform with an AI-driven mortgage origination engine, with the backing of private credit firm Sixth Street and three law firms advising. 

  • June 09, 2026

    Crystallex Warns Of Delay Tactic In Citgo Sale Appeal

    Defunct Canadian miner Crystallex on Friday urged the Third Circuit to order Venezuela's counsel to prove its authority as the country challenges an order greenlighting the nearly $6 billion sale of Citgo to satisfy billions of dollars of its debt, pointing to the new administration of Delcy Rodriguez.

  • June 09, 2026

    Kalshi To Start Requiring Employer Info For Certain Markets

    Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.

Expert Analysis

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    Cow Horse Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Moving an unwilling 800-pound cow while riding a horse at high speed is exhilarating, a little unhinged and, at least for me, a surprisingly effective training ground for litigation — both demand focus, preparation over rigid planning and the willingness to act despite fear, says Ashley Zitrin at Glenn Agre.

  • O Brother, Where Art DAO? Jurisdiction Issues Abound

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    While there is a dearth of decisions examining a decentralized autonomous organization's citizenship for diversity jurisdiction purposes, Second Circuit case law has defined citizenship for other unincorporated entities, which may guide how courts evaluate an increasing number of cases involving DAOs, says Michael Mix at Morrison Cohen.

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    Agentic AI And Securities Law: Steps Congress Should Take

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    Agentic artificial intelligence technology doesn't fit comfortably into the existing securities regulatory landscape, so Congress should avoid repeating the mistakes that led to the legal uncertainty crypto companies and investors have faced over the past decade-plus by providing a legislative framework before AI fully matures, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

  • Weighing Trade-Offs Of SEC's Semiannual Reporting Proposal

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    Though public companies could benefit from a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposal that would allow them to file earnings reports just twice a year, widespread adoption could also increase market volatility, complicate capital raising and fragment disclosure standards to the detriment of issuers and investors, say attorneys at Seward & Kissel.

  • 3 Disgorgement Questions Linger After Justices' SEC Ruling

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    While the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Sripetch v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission avoided placing new limits on the SEC’s disgorgement powers, it passed over several questions, including whether the commission can seek disgorgement when returning the money to investors isn't possible, says David Slovick at Kopecky Schumacher.

  • How Crypto Firms Can Prep As Clarity Act Inches Toward Law

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    Though the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act’s road to enactment remains uncertain, the statutory framework for regulating digital commodities recently advanced by the Senate Banking Committee is now sufficiently developed that market participants can begin preparing in several areas where the complicated legislation would affect them, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

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    A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

  • Opinion

    SEC Enforcement Reforms Must Address Post-Wells Limbo

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent changes to how it notifies companies of a potential enforcement action fail to address what happens after the Wells process is over, highlighting the need for meaningful process reform that includes a formal closure determination, says Kimble Cannon at Mahdavi Bacon.

  • Foot Locker Fine Illustrates SEC's Whistleblower Priorities

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent fining of Foot Locker for its separation agreements is a reminder that the commission remains serious about maintaining open channels for reporting whistleblower concerns and that provisions can violate Rule 21F-17(a) without specifically barring communications with the SEC, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

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    Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

  • How End Of SEC 'Gag Rule' Affects Free Speech Certiorari Bid

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    The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescission of the so-called gag rule, which forbade defendants in settlements from denying the SEC’s allegations, may sway the outcome of a petition to the Supreme Court in a case challenging the rule on First Amendment grounds, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • Banks Should Reassess Warehouse Lines Amid Credit Stress

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    Growing stress in private credit markets means banks with warehouse lines to nonbank lenders should inventory exposures, revisit covenants and prepare for tougher regulator scrutiny, as repayment strains and weakening fund liquidity could turn seemingly indirect risks into material compliance concerns, say attorneys at Barack Ferrazzano.

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    Competing At Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.

  • 5 Things Associates Must Ask About Their Firm's Merger Plan

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    The associates who navigate law firm mergers best ask the right questions early, such as inquiring about partners' plans, to assess how the merger could affect their workflow and career path, says Jackie Bokser-LeFebvre at Major Lindsey.

  • 2 'Rocket Dockets' And The Rules That Propel Them

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    The fastest civil trial courts in the country are currently in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, and their chief judges provide insights into the court rules that keep them ahead, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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