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Initial Coin Offering
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FinTech Update
Federal Court denies SEC Injunction in Blockvest ICO
By C. Neil Gray, Herbert F. Kozlov, Jessica R. Stumacher
On November 28, 2018, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California denied the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) request for a preliminary injunction against Defendants…
New York Venture Hub
First Federal Ruling Against SEC on Whether Digital Token is a Security
On November 27, 2018, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California denied the Securities and Exchange Commission’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block an initial…
Corporate and Securities Law
Court Refuses to Issue Preliminary Injunction to Halt Initial Coin Offering
SEC Actions
This Week In Securities Litigation (Week ending Nov. 30, 2018)
Crypto currency continues to be a focus for SEC Enforcement. Last week the agency filed two settled ICO cases, setting the standard for settlement of unregistered offerings in the wake…
Compliance Building
A Court Rules that an ICO was not a Securities Offering
Last month, I wrote about the complaint filed by Securities and Exchange Commission against Reginald Ringgold and his Blockvest initial coin offering. One of the Blockvest’s marketing ploys was to…
Technology Law Dispatch
SEC settles two ICO enforcement actions
By C. Neil Gray, Herbert Kozlov, Maxwell J. Eichenberger
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently settled two initial coin offering (ICO) enforcement actions grounded on the sale of unregistered securities. The two settlements, one with CarrierEQ Inc.…
FinTech Update
SEC settlement of two ICOs based on sales of unregistered securities: No fraud claims asserted
By C. Neil Gray, Herbert F. Kozlov, Maxwell J. Eichenberger
On Friday, November 16, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it settled two cases against digital token issuers. The settlements, one with CarrierEQ Inc. (AirFox) and…
Israel Global Gateway
DLA Piper completes global compliance survey of initial coin offerings and securities token offerings
By Israel Group
DLA Piper has completed a global compliance survey of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and securities token offerings (STOs), identifying how governments and agencies in more than 70 jurisdictions define, regulate…
Banking, Finance and Securities
Consob suspends ICO
The Italian financial services regulator, the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (Consob), has recently been in the news for suspending an initial coin offering (ICO) to the…
Blockchain Blog
A Thanksgiving Feast: SEC Sets the Table for More Crypto Enforcement Servings to Come
By Micah Green, Gary Goldsholle, Charles Mills, Jason Weinstein, Will Turner, Alan Cohn, Josh Oppenheimer
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC or Commission) November 16 announcement charging two cryptocurrency companies—CarrierEQ Inc. (d/b/a Airfox) and Paragon Coin Inc. (Paragon)—with conducting an initial coin offering (ICO) in…