Capital Markets

  • July 21, 2026

    London Aims For Global Appeal With Continuous Trading

    The London Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it will allow worldwide investors to trade on its platform continuously from Monday to Friday to boost its appeal across global time zones.

  • July 20, 2026

    Auto Parts Co., Investors Ink $12.8M Deal In Merger Suit

    Automotive equipment manufacturer Holley has reached a $12.8 million settlement with investors who accused it of concealing declining business trends following a 2021 merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

  • July 20, 2026

    CFTC Has 'Lost Its Way' On Prediction Markets, Ex-Chair Says

    Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Timothy Massad said Monday that the agency has "lost its way" with a prediction market rule proposal that misinterprets the agency's mission and statutes to turn it into a national sports betting regulator.

  • July 20, 2026

    Celsius' Goldstein Owes $2M, Banned From Crypto Trading

    The former chief technology officer of Celsius Network must pay more than $2 million to the Federal Trade Commission as part of a settlement alleging the company's leaders knowingly made false statements to customers before the platform went bankrupt, a New York federal judge has ordered.

  • July 20, 2026

    4th Circ. Overturns Class Cert. In Boeing Investor Case

    The Fourth Circuit on Monday reversed class certification granted in an investor lawsuit against Boeing over the company's alleged concealment of safety issues with its 737 Max fleet, finding that neither the plaintiffs nor the lower court met the standards for certification set in a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.

  • July 20, 2026

    SEC Says Crypto Mining Co. Misused $20M From Investors

    A Florida-based businessman and his company have partially settled claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Massachusetts federal court accusing them of fraudulently raising over $20 million with misrepresentations that investors would be repaid with funds based on the output of crypto mining assets.

  • July 20, 2026

    Meta Slips Suits Over Pump-And-Dump Scam Ads, For Now

    A California federal judge has tossed two proposed class actions claiming Meta's artificial intelligence tools enabled schemes advertised on Facebook and Instagram that caused nearly $30 million in investor losses, saying the litigation aligns with a recent ruling finding such state claims are barred under federal securities law.

  • July 20, 2026

    Kalshi's Prediction Market Biz Facing Shutdown In Wash.

    A Washington federal judge Monday granted the state's bid to preliminarily enjoin Kalshi's operations in the state, agreeing with Attorney General Nick Brown that the prediction market platform offers unlicensed sports wagering and other illegal online gambling activities.

  • July 20, 2026

    Weedmaps $7.5M Investor Deal Gets Preliminary Approval

    A California federal judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to a $7.5 million settlement to end claims that Weedmaps inflated its monthly average users metric after going public, causing its stock to drop when the truth came out.

  • July 20, 2026

    Trump Media Settles Claims With Ex-SPAC CEO In Fla. Suit

    The corporation that operates President Donald Trump's Truth Social website agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against the former CEO of a special purpose acquisition company over a botched public offering following a settlement between the parties in Florida state court. 

  • July 20, 2026

    Simpson Thacher Points To Audit Issues In Malpractice Trial

    A corporate founder seeking more than $100 million in a malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP endured a withering cross-examination in Florida state court Monday over his companies' money flows and an auditor's refusal to certify their financial statements two years after the fundraising transaction he believes the firm botched.

  • July 20, 2026

    PE-Backed Sandwich Chain Jersey Mike's Targets $1B IPO

    Private equity-backed sandwich chain Jersey Mike's Subs on Monday revealed terms for an estimated $1 billion initial public offering steered by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

  • July 20, 2026

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving intellectual property, corporate control, fiduciary duties, artificial intelligence, trust administration and cryptocurrency litigation.

  • July 20, 2026

    A Snapshot Of Prediction Markets Litigation: Midyear Report

    Fierce litigation over sports offerings on prediction market platforms came to define the first half of the year for the sports betting industry. Here, Law360 breaks down the moments that defined prediction market litigation in the first half of 2026 and what attorneys will be watching in the months to come.

  • July 18, 2026

    Kalshi Unwound Mich. Trades Before CFTC Order, Court Told

    Kalshi told a Michigan judge that it will remain in compliance with a court order that instructed it to unwind certain residents' sports trades because it has no way to meet a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission directive to defy the court and reinstate the contracts.

  • July 17, 2026

    Wealth Management Co. To Pay $1.85M In SEC's Scam Case

    A California federal judge has ordered a purported wealth management company and its managing member to pay $1.85 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stemming from a pair of fraud schemes, including one involving an elaborate ruse invoking ties to the wealth of the royal family of Qatar.

  • July 17, 2026

    Desktop Metal Exec Tipped Pals On Merger, SEC Says

    An ex-officer at 3D printing technology company Desktop Metal and two of his friends have settled claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accusing them of using nonpublic information to direct and make trades ahead of a 2021 acquisition announcement.

  • July 17, 2026

    Trader Chats Keep Deutsche Bank In UK Bond-Rigging Case

    A New York federal judge has ruled that Deutsche Bank must face a proposed class action accusing it of conspiring with other big banks to fix U.K. government bond prices, finding that newly alleged trader chats provide "smoking gun" evidence allowing the case to proceed.

  • July 17, 2026

    NM Wants CFTC's Prediction Market Enforcement Suit Axed

    The state of New Mexico told a federal judge that a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission suit over prediction market regulation shouldn't stand, since the agency can't show how it's been harmed by the state's attempts to enforce its gaming laws against Kalshi.

  • July 17, 2026

    Deutsche Bank Can Pursue Billionaire Vik Over $243M Order

    A Connecticut appeals court on Friday revived a Deutsche Bank lawsuit against billionaire Alexander Vik, concluding that the bank's prior litigation loss did not bar a second lawsuit accusing Vik and his daughter of disrupting a Norwegian software company's share sale designed to partially satisfy a $243 million English court judgment.

  • July 17, 2026

    Don't Miss It: Willkie, Orrick Steer Hot Deals

    A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.

  • July 17, 2026

    Rakoff Tells Investors Big Banks Were Tricolor Fraud Victims

    U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff has entered an opinion explaining why he tossed an investor suit last month accusing JPMorgan, Barclays and Fifth Third of facilitating a fraudulent scheme by bankrupt subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings, saying the suit does not establish the banks' motivations.

  • July 17, 2026

    Del. High Court Says Jarkesy Doesn't Extend To State Cases

    The Delaware Supreme Court has declined to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's Jarkesy holding to a state securities fraud suit arising from an administrative enforcement action brought by the state's Investor Protection Unit, finding there are no similar common-law cases requiring the right to a jury trial.

  • July 17, 2026

    6th Circ. Won't Rehear Mark Cuban-Backed FINRA Challenge

    A Sixth Circuit panel has declined to grant a full rehearing of a constitutional challenge of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's in-house disciplinary proceedings brought by the owner of a financial consulting company that had support from billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

  • July 17, 2026

    Dems Raise Alarm DOJ Will 'Rubber-Stamp' Fox's Roku Buy

    Democratic lawmakers are targeting both Fox Corp.'s planned purchase of Roku and the Justice Department that will review it, in a letter announced Friday lambasting the deal itself and pushing the agency under Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. not to be "corrupted by influence-peddling or political favoritism."

Expert Analysis

  • OCC Letter Affirms Nat'l Banks' Shield From State Licensing

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    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently published a letter supporting Fidelity Digital Assets' stance that state money transmitter licensing requirements do not apply to national banks, confirming the agency's long-standing interpretive position on this issue, say attorneys at Katten.

  • Tips For Investors, Creditors Before Venezuela Restructuring

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    As Venezuela enters the first genuinely actionable phase of what may become one of the largest sovereign debt restructurings in modern financial history, creditors should strategically evaluate their claim types and investors should consider engaging before formal negotiations commence, says Rodrigo Carvalho at Winston Taylor.

  • Assessing New Risks After The End Of The SEC's Gag Rule

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescission of its long-standing no‑deny gag rule marks a transition from a regime of enforced silence to one of strategic communication, meaning the question is no longer simply whether to settle, but how to manage the narrative that follows, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.

  • Series

    Being A Magician Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I've developed as a lifelong magician have translated directly into tangible benefits in the courtroom because performing magic and trying cases both live at the intersection of psychology, storytelling, timing and disciplined rehearsal, says Mark Dombroff at Fox Rothschild.

  • Del. Dispatch: The New 'Director Independence' Definition

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent decision in Ayers v. Foley, its first interpretation and application of "director independence" as outlined in Section 144 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, suggests that the court will not limit the new section's reach, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

  • How Nixing Trade-Through Rule Would Alter Equity Markets

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent proposal to rescind the trade-through rule and the locked-and-crossed-markets prohibition represents one of the most significant potential changes to U.S. equity market structure in two decades, affecting exchanges, broker-dealers, and institutional and retail investors alike, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • 2 AI Washing Rulings Apply Familiar Securities Fraud Rules

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    Two recent federal court decisions to allow AI washing complaints to proceed begin to clarify the line between nonactionable optimism and actionable misstatements by framing the core issue as not overstating the promise of artificial intelligence, but misrepresenting the current state of a company's products, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • The Nuance Between The Atkins, Gensler SEC Strategic Plans

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    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins' recent draft strategic plan is a marked departure from that of former Chair Gary Gensler, portraying an intention to leave decisions to the market rather than steering corporate behavior through expansive disclosure mandates and regulatory enforcement, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • Future Of Fed Independence Shaky After Justices' Ruling

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Trump v. Cook preserved the Federal Reserve's formal independence but could invite the president to remove board members with just modest protections, leaving the central bank's autonomy uncertain and potentially setting up fresh clashes over other agencies, says Steven Schwinn at the University of Chicago.

  • Series

    Mich. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

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    The second quarter brought several notable financial services law developments to Michigan, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on state tax foreclosures, progress on a money transmission modernization bill package, and continued legislative momentum on cryptocurrency and mortgage lending, say attorneys at Dykema.

  • CFIUS' Mandate Misses Foreign Risk In Project Subcontracts

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    Recent calls for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review equity transactions like the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. deal miss a consequential oversight gap — CFIUS' inability to review the subcontracting layer of U.S. infrastructure projects, says Thibaut Giret at Alstef Group.

  • AI Governance Tips For Avoiding Securities Suits

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    A recent securities class action in California federal court against lending platform Upstart highlights how statements about artificial intelligence are increasingly being scrutinized not only by regulators, but also by shareholders, meaning companies should ensure oversight frameworks keep pace with the technology, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • Series

    Bass Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Landing a trophy striped bass and closing a big deal both require cultivating the patience to finesse — not force — your way to desired outcomes, changing course when your old approach isn’t working and learning from the ones that got away, says Jon Ruiss at Alston & Bird.

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    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

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    The year's second quarter brought several notable banking law developments to New York, including a proposal to align state stablecoin rules with the federal Genius Act, fresh fair lending and cybersecurity guidance from state regulators, and a significant Second Circuit holding on preemption, say attorneys at Ashurst Perkins Coie.

  • Roundup

    The Most Talked-About Supreme Court Decisions Of 2026

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    This term, 11 U.S. Supreme Court decisions quickly became hot topics among Law360's guest writers.

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