As private equity firms continue to drive a significant share of merger activity, take-private transactions have become a focal point for securities litigation. Shareholders challenging these deals ...

‘Ticket to Lead Counsel’: Here’s How Securities Litigation ‘Radically Changed’ 30 Years After Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act prompted a sea change in securities class actions ...

In the end, though, Close said that he, too, was waiting and seeing how the SEC’s policy shift will play out. “When I started practice, we had the federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and ...

In my work with impact-focused entrepreneurs who are ready to raise capital to take their businesses to the next level, I find that phrases like securities law and legal compliance can be intimidating ...

The question of whether all digital tokens are securities by default has become the defining regulatory battleground of the modern financial era. For years, the United States Securities and Exchange ...

October 06, 2025 - On Sept. 17, 2025, following a 3-1 vote, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a new policy statement, opens new tab announcing its position that the ...

Until fall 2023, there were few SEC enforcements or litigations involving securities issues with non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”). This has changed dramatically. In rapid succession last fall, the SEC ...

Jonathan is the managing partner of the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the firm’s litigation department. He has represented various entities and individuals in enforcement investigations ...

So many books cover the work of the Supreme Court that the Journal of Supreme Court History can review several of them in each issue. The overwhelming majority of those books, though, analyze the work ...

What is the SEC’s 2025 guidance? The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (CorpFin) released a comprehensive statement on April 10, 2025, outlining what companies ...