by Federico Zepeda | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog
Living in the United States, we have the luxury of enjoying various national holidays like Labor Day, Memorial Day and Presidents Day. However, many Americans are unaware that there is a National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. On July 30, 2021, the United States...
by Christian Levis | Chair of Data Privacy | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
In an economy that has witnessed increasing digitization of all sorts of assets, it is no surprise that non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have gained attention across the investor spectrum. Yet much...
by Luke Goveas | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog
Forum selection has long been an art form for litigators. The right forum can provide significant advantages, such as favorable case law, a specific judge, or a sympathetic jury pool—the Eastern District of Texas famously had one of the country’s busiest patent...
by Anthony Christina | Jul 21, 2021 | Blog
On June 30, 2021, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) fined[1] the popular broker-dealer trading app Robinhood Financial LLC (“Robinhood”) $57 million, and ordered the company pay approximately $12.6 million in restitution, for what FINRA alleges...
by Radhika Gupta | Jul 11, 2021 | Blog
Back in 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission settled a securities fraud charge with Tesla and Elon Musk. The charge arose as a result of a Musk tweet that he had secured funding to take Tesla private, causing Tesla’s stock price to soar. The settlement...
by Sylvie Bourassa | Jul 2, 2021 | Blog
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is working to overhaul the rule that protects corporate executives from insider trading accusations when they buy or sell their company’s stocks. Executives are regularly exposed to material nonpublic information...
