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Enforcement
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The Securities Law Blog
SEC Charges Allianz Global Investors and Three Former Senior Portfolio Managers with Multibillion Dollar Securities Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today charged Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI US) and three former senior portfolio managers with a massive fraudulent scheme that concealed the immense…
Digital Currency + Blockchain Perspectives
SEC Enforcement Broadens its Crypto Focus
By Grant P. Fondo|Alexis Coll-Very|Robert Tiefenbrun
Digital Currency Perspectives authors Grant Fondo, Alexis Coll-Very, and Robert Tiefenbrun recently posted an alert regarding the use of an emergency cease and desist order issued against individuals and a…
SEC Actions
SEC Enforcement: 1Q22 (Part II)
This report, like those previously published regarding other time periods, is divided into three segments. Part I presented the statistics for the first quarter of 2022. It notes in part…
Password Protected
SEC Expands Enforcement Unit Tasked With Protecting Crypto Markets
By Molly M. White, Clayton Stallbaumer, Kevin Frankel, Susan Rodriguez, Brian P. Coughlan, Rakesh Gopalan
Reflecting its determination to monitor the crypto markets, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it was renaming the Cyber Unit the “Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit” and…
Consumer Finance Monitor
This week’s podcast episode: Recent small business and consumer finance developments at the Federal Trade Commission, with special guest Malini Mithal, Associate Director, FTC Division of Financial Practices
We discuss the industries and practices that have been the subject of recent FTC enforcement focus, including: marketing, servicing, and collection practices involving small business financing such as merchant cash…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
SEC Nearly Doubles Size of Digital Asset Enforcement Team
By David Lopez, Matthew C. Solomon, Tom Bednar, Alexander Janghorbani, Samuel Levander
On May 3, 2022, the SEC announced that it was renaming the Division of Enforcement’s Cyber Unit as the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, and significantly increasing its size with…
Blockchain and the Law
SEC to Hire More Staff in Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit and Ratchet Up Scrutiny of Industry
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that it would hire 20 additional positions to the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (formerly known as the Cyber Unit) within the…
Food Safety News
Salmonella, food additives, pesticides lead to FDA enforcement actions on imports
By News Desk
The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts…
Ad Law Access
FTC Uses AMG Anniversary to Push for a Bipartisan 13(b) Legislative Fix in an Increasingly Partisan Environment
By John E. Villafranco, Maggie C. Crosswy
During the Federal Trade Commission’s April 28 open meeting, Commissioners utilized the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC to highlight the implications…
The Contingency
How Antitrust Enforcers Might Think Like Plaintiffs’ Lawyers
[caption id="attachment_7314" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Standard Oil Octopus: Past as Prologue[/caption] Stephen D. Susman, the founder of my firm and a titan in the antitrust bar, pioneered representing private antitrust plaintiffs…