Harry Cassin
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Jessica Tillipman
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Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
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Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Shruti J. Shah
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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A former Merck & Co. executive bought shares in a company Merck was acquiring 14 minutes after a Merck lawyer warned him not to trade in the stock.
Yang Xie was the director of a research unit at Merck.… Continue Reading
Britain’s market regulator charged a former UBS Group AG compliance officer with five counts of insider trading.
Fabiana Abdel-Malek, 34, allegedly passed tips to a London man between June 2013 and June 2014 who traded on the information, Bloomberg reported.… Continue Reading
A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. compliance employee settled an SEC complaint Wednesday that accused him of using confidential data from emails for trades in at least four takeover targets.
Yeu Han, a Chinese citizen also known as John Han, disgorged about $903,000 in trading profits.… Continue Reading
A former senior information systems officer at a leading Silicon Valley-based law firm was jailed Wednesday for two years for insider trading.
Dmitry Braverman, 42, of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, used material nonpublic information about planned mergers and acquisitions of at least eight of the firm’s clients, the DOJ said.… Continue Reading
Jing Wang, the former president of global business operations for Qualcomm Inc., was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and fined $500,000 for his role in a three-year insider trading scheme and cover up.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of New England Law | BostonLaw-related employment for grads from American law schools isn’t exactly robust. In 2013, the ABA Journal said, only 57 percent of the that year’s JDs had full-time bar-passage-required jobs.… Continue Reading
Sam Wyly, courtesy of genconnectofficial on YouTubeThe Securities and Exchange Commission said in a court filing Friday that Texas billionaire Sam Wyly and the estate of his late brother Charles should pay $1.41 billion in damages for hidding trades in companies they controlled using offshore trusts.… Continue Reading
In what is thought to be the first FCPA-related enforcement action ever taken against a China-based company, the SEC entered into a joint settlement yesterday with Keyuan Petrochemicals Inc. and its former CFO, Aichun Li, over alleged violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA, and anti-fraud and reporting provisions of other federal securities laws.… Continue Reading
