The dog days of late summer are a frenzied time within the SEC's Division of Enforcement as staff work feverishly to complete their investigations and secure the requisite yes vote...

Although the SEC has long adhered to its Seaboard Report of Investigation to outline the analytical framework for the agency's cooperation program for companies, the exact benefits of self-policing...

Christin Hill spoke with Bloomberg Law about the annual report from Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law Review Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.

Last month, Cornerstone Research told us that accounting and auditing enforcement activity by the SEC in FY 2022 increased by 55% over the prior fiscal year to 68 enforcement actions...

Through the summer and into the fall of 2023, Cooley's securities litigation + enforcement practice continued to provide our clients with thoughtful analysis on recent developments in securities law...

Following two years of decline, the number of companies sued in U.S. securities fraud class action lawsuits increased by 43% in 2007, according to a joint study released this week by Stanford Law School and Cornerstone Research.

In the wake of record-setting volume and value metrics in 2018, practitioners eyed the 2019 deal market with healthy skepticism.

This article follows an earlier Client Alert entitled COVID-19: An Early Look at Securities Act Litigation Amid COVID-19.

A defendant who is convicted, but for whom the sentencing court delays issuing the final restitution order, must appeal the court's sentence and then separately appeal the court's order of restitution.

Canadian securities regulators overwhelmingly address regulatory non-compliance through enforcement proceedings commenced before their own adjudicative tribunals

This week reports surfaced that a major shift in the SEC enforcement division had taken place – behind the scenes. The timing is quite interesting as the agency's annual seminar and SEC Alumni dinner will occur at the end of the month.

While non-monetary class action settlements are increasingly disfavored in other courts — most notably, in the Delaware Court of Chancery — New York courts remain receptive to their utility.

The last seven months have seen yet another increase in the level of securities class actions in Australia.

In privacy law and data protection, AI systems are increasingly scrutinized for potential violations, especially as they process vast amounts of personal data.

As has been widely reported, almost every large public company merger and acquisition (M&A) transaction attracts at least one shareholder lawsuit.

The informed choice of independent, uncoerced shareholders to approve an M&A transaction is being given more weight in the United States following a recent line of Delaware decisions.

Purchasers of public companies focus on negotiating the best terms for the acquisition. Price, break-up fees, deal protections (such as voting agreements or matching rights), closing conditions and required actions to facilitate regulatory approval or obtain financing all are key deal considerations for buyers.

When the U.S. Supreme Court decided on Tuesday to dismiss the writ of certiorari in Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian as "improvidently granted,"

Last year, plaintiffs filed an unprecedented 412 new federal class-action securities cases, meaning that the "likelihood of securities litigation against U.S. exchange-listed companies was greater in 2017...

Despite the fact that securities fraud lawsuits involving auditors are said to be relatively few in number as a percentage of total new filings and new filings are below the historical average, auditors often come to be added as defendants, particularly in high-profile cases.