Capital Markets

  • January 22, 2026

    Calif. Couple Charged With $100M Stock Manipulation Scheme

    A married couple in California has been indicted by a federal grand jury for charges related to their alleged involvement in a securities fraud and money laundering scheme involving falsely promoting and dumping shares of several public companies, including a purported rooftop solar business and a crypto mining firm, according to prosecutors.

  • January 22, 2026

    Investors In Korean Online Retail Giant Threaten Treaty Claim

    California investment firms that hold a $1.5 billion stake in online retail giant Coupang have threatened to bring a treaty claim against South Korea over "a whole-of-government pressure campaign" initiated against the company and have asked the Trump administration to intervene, as well.

  • January 22, 2026

    SpaceX Eyes IPO, Spirit Mulls PE Owner, And Other Rumors

    Elon Musk's SpaceX is putting together a group of Wall Street investment banks for a potential IPO, Spirit Airlines is in talks with investment firm Castlelake to help lead it out of bankruptcy, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks to the Middle East to potentially raise tens of billions of dollars. 

  • January 22, 2026

    New Securities Class Actions Declined In 2025, Report Says

    New securities class action filings fell overall last year, along with aggregate settlement values and attorney fees, but the emergence of tariff-related suits could present a new trend in filings in response to actions taken by the U.S. government, according to a recent National Economic Research Associates Inc. report.

  • January 22, 2026

    Kalshi And Robinhood Slam Wis. Tribe's Bid To Block Gambling

    Online trading platforms Kalshi and Robinhood have asked a Wisconsin federal judge to deny a bid by a Native American tribe to preliminarily block them from offering sports event contracts on tribal lands, arguing that stopping them would harm their businesses and customers.

  • January 22, 2026

    5th Circ. Won't Restore Plastics Co.'s $75M IP Jury Award

    The Fifth Circuit is standing behind a lower court's decision throwing out a verdict of more than $75 million that plastics manufacturer Trinseo Europe GmbH won in a suit accusing a former Dow Chemical Co. employee and Kellogg Brown & Root LLC of swiping trade secrets.

  • January 22, 2026

    Feds Won't Retry Landmark OpenSea NFT Fraud Case

    Federal prosecutors won't retry their fraud claims against the former OpenSea manager accused of insider trading on his employer's nonfungible token platform, walking away from the case after the Second Circuit overturned the conviction last July.

  • January 22, 2026

    Ga. Financial Firm CEO Cops To $380M Ponzi Scheme

    The CEO of an Atlanta-area financial advisory group has pled guilty to conducting a $380 million Ponzi scheme, which is likely the largest in Georgia history, according to prosecutors.

  • January 22, 2026

    AGs Target Investor Advocacy Group As 'Climate Cartel'

    A group of state attorneys general led by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a warning letter Wednesday to climate advocacy organization Ceres claiming concerns about violations of antitrust and consumer protection laws.

  • January 22, 2026

    3 Firms Guide BitGo's Upsized $212M IPO

    Fenwick & West LLP, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Whalen LLP guided Bitgo Holding's Thursday initial public offering, which valued the company at $2.08 billion with shares priced at $18, per an announcement from the fintech company.

  • January 22, 2026

    Marketers Who Sold Fraudulent StraightPath Funds Plead Out

    Two New York men who hawked pre-initial public offering shares for fraud-ridden vendor StraightPath from "boiler room" sales floors pled guilty Thursday to fraud charges, after Manhattan federal prosecutors charged them with raising $185 million by duping customers.

  • January 22, 2026

    General Fusion To Go Public In $1B Nasdaq Deal

    Private equity-backed General Fusion on Thursday announced plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III in a deal that provides the combined company a roughly $1 billion pro forma equity value and was built by four law firms.

  • January 22, 2026

    2 Firms Advise Energy Infrastructure Co.'s Go-Public Deal

    Utility-scale energy infrastructure developer Hecate Energy Group said Thursday that it is set to become a public company valued at $1.2 billion under a merger advised by Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP.

  • January 22, 2026

    Ethanol Biz Loses Bid To Overturn €48M Price-Fixing Fine

    A Swedish ethanol producer failed on Thursday to overturn a €47.7 million ($55.9 million) fine for colluding to maintain high prices by market manipulation after a European appeals court ruled that a competition watchdog did not presume it was guilty.

  • January 21, 2026

    Holmes Seeks Trump Clemency For Theranos Fraud Sentence

    Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has asked President Donald Trump to commute an 11-year prison sentence she's been serving for defrauding investors with bogus blood-testing technology, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney.

  • January 21, 2026

    Senate Agriculture Unveils Crypto Bill Without Dem Backing

    The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee released the text of a proposal to expand the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority over crypto Wednesday evening, despite failing to reach a bipartisan agreement on the text ahead of a markup slated for next week.

  • January 21, 2026

    Health Tech SPAC Execs Ink $10M Investor Settlement

    Former executives of a health technology company that went public via merger with a blank check company have reached a $10 million deal to settle claims they wiped out investors with a bankruptcy filing after the company's product development projections derailed.

  • January 21, 2026

    NJ Firm Must Face Full SEC Suit Over Investment Allocations

    A New Jersey federal judge allowed all claims of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit against a Garden State financial firm and its founder to proceed, finding Wednesday the regulator has adequately pleaded scheme liability, knowledge of wrongdoing and other counts.

  • January 21, 2026

    Court Rejects Sanctions In Venezuelan Oil Defamation Case

    A Florida federal judge on Wednesday declined to sanction a director of a Venezuelan state-owned oil company, finding no conflict of interest by his attorneys at Diaz Reus LLP in a now-dismissed suit accusing the director and others of engaging in a campaign to smear Venezuelan civic leaders.

  • January 21, 2026

    Robinhood Warns Of Gambling Suit 'Threat' After Kalshi Loss

    Trading platform Robinhood is once again calling for a federal judge to block Massachusetts from taking enforcement action against it for allegedly offering access to sports betting, saying it faces a "a real and imminent threat" of prosecution given the state's victory against another prediction markets firm Tuesday.

  • January 21, 2026

    Delaware Justices Clarify Ruling On Loews' $1.5B Cash-Out

    In a rare second look at one of its own recent decisions, Delaware's Supreme Court said an earlier opinion "misconstrued" some dimensions of an unjust enrichment challenge to Loews Corp.'s $1.5 billion buyout of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP public unitholders.

  • January 21, 2026

    Jump Trading Beats Crypto Class Action Over Terra Collapse

    Brokerage firm Jump Trading and its crypto arm beat back claims that they failed to honor their market-making duties when certain holders of TerraUSD sought to sell their tokens during the algorithmic stablecoin's collapse, as a California magistrate judge found the holders have not tied the market maker to the state.

  • January 21, 2026

    Del. Justices Urged To Revive Telemedicine Co. SPAC Suit

    An attorney for special purpose acquisition company investors in a $1.35 billion take-public deal that preceded an affiliate bankruptcy, heavy losses and fraud claims urged Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject arguments that the statute of limitations on the claims started ticking at the time of the alleged misrepresentation.

  • January 21, 2026

    Cloover Raises $1.22B Via Series A, Debt Facility

    Cloover announced Wednesday that the green fintech company raised $22 million via a Series A equity financing as well as a $1.2 billion debt facility from a leading European bank, guided by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. 

  • January 21, 2026

    SEC Wins $9.7M In Cemtrex Fraud Case After 2nd Circ. Remand

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has secured a $9.7 million judgment against the founder of an industrial manufacturer who allegedly diverted over $7.3 million of investor funds from his company to his private accounts, after the Second Circuit vacated the previous disgorgement award and remanded the case.

Expert Analysis

  • Key Crypto Class Action Trends And Rulings In 2025

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    As the law continued to take shape in the growing area of crypto-assets, this year saw a jump in crypto class action litigation, including noteworthy decisions on motions to compel arbitration and class certification, according to Justin Donoho at Duane Morris.

  • How New SEC Policies Shift Shareholder Proposal Landscape

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    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins' recent remarks provide a road map for public companies to exclude nonbinding shareholder proposals from proxy materials, which would disrupt the mechanism that has traditionally defined how shareholders and companies engage on governance matters, say attorneys at Gunderson.

  • Series

    Knitting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Welcome To Miami

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    After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Recent Proposals May Spell Supervision Overhaul For Banks

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    A slew of rules recently proposed by the federal banking agencies with approaching comment deadlines would rewrite supervision standards to be further tailored to banks' size and activities, while prioritizing financial risks over process, documentation and other nonfinancial risks, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • What US Can Learn From Brazil's Securities Arbitration Model

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    To allay investor concerns about its recent approval of mandatory arbitration clauses in public company registration statements, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should look to Brazil's securities arbitration model, which shows that clear rules and strong institutions can complement the goals of securities regulation, say arbiters at the B3 Arbitration Chamber.

  • AI Evidence Rule Tweaks Encourage Judicial Guardrails

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    Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Getting The Message Across

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    Communications and brand strategy during a law firm merger represent a crucial thread that runs through every stage of a combination and should include clear messaging, leverage modern marketing tools and embrace the chance to evolve, says Ashley Horne at Womble Bond.

  • How Bank-Fintech Partnerships Changed In 2025

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    The 2025 transition to the Trump administration, augmented by the reversal of Chevron deference in 2024, has resulted in unprecedented shifts, and bank-fintech partnerships are no exception, with key changes affecting a number of areas including charters, regulatory oversight and anti-money laundering, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • 2 Early Settlement Alternatives In Federal Securities Litigation

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    Most class actions brought under the federal securities laws are either settled or won by the defendants following a motion to dismiss, but two alternative strategies have the potential to lower discovery costs and allow defendants to obtain judgment without the uncertainty of jury trials on complex matters, says Richard Zelichov at DLA Piper.

  • Opinion

    Horizontal Stare Decisis Should Not Be Casually Discarded

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    Eliminating the so-called law of the circuit doctrine — as recently proposed by a Fifth Circuit judge, echoing Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence in Loper Bright — would undermine public confidence in the judiciary’s independence and create costly uncertainty for litigants, says Lawrence Bluestone at Genova Burns.

  • DC Circ. Decision Reaffirms SEC Authority Post-Loper Bright

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    The recent denial of a challenge to invalidate 2024 amendments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's tick size and fee-cap rules reinforces the D.C. Circuit's deference to SEC expertise in market structure regulation, even after Loper Bright, though implementation of the rules remains uncertain, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • 10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

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    Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

  • Series

    Preaching Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a Gospel preacher has enhanced my success as a trial lawyer by teaching me the importance of credibility, relatability, persuasiveness and thorough preparation for my congregants, the same skills needed with judges and juries in the courtroom, says Reginald Harris at Stinson.

  • Why Digital Asset Treasuries Are Drawing Regulator Concerns

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    Financial regulators’ recent focus on potential insider trading and investor risk at hundreds of publicly traded digital asset treasuries may have been summoned by how quickly this rapidly expanding market responds to asset allocation decisions, as well as variations in risk disclosure practices across the sector, say attorneys at The Brattle Group.

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