Corporate & Securities Law

Cuomo v. UBS: Gotham Set to Host Auction-Rate Securities Party
As you may remember, last month Massachusetts got the party started by suing UBS for fraud and dishonest conduct in sales of auction-rate securities...

Securities markets, stockbrokers and ASIC
In Securities markets, participants and ASIC (pdf) Tony D'Aloisio, Chairman Australian Securities & Investments Commission, defends ASIC's role as an effective regulator in the recent market turmoil: "While the issues which have arisen in the market have required ASIC taking...

Does the Credit Crisis Implicate the Need for a National Securities Regulator?
There are strong arguments in favour of a national securities regulator which have been voiced numerous times over the past few decades: greater efficiency in transactions, consistent and coherent presence internationally, single enforcement body, uniform securities legislation, lower costs for issuers and registrants, etc...

Auction Rate Securities -- Not Quite the Same as Cash.
By now you know (perhaps all too well) that countless investors who were told by their brokers that so-called Auction Rate Securities were "as liquid as cash" have seen that liquidity dry up...

Little Yield, in Yield Plus: Investors Sue
New York, NY: You wonder when it's all going to end. No, not the credit crisis or stock market losses, but the securities fraud that comes with promising more than you can deliver—and specifically, attempting to mitigate the risk in an effort to secure the investment and ink the deal...

Further ASIC clarification on short selling
ASIC has announced that persons who have placed portfolio securities into a securities lending program provided by an established securities lending business and who wish to sell those securities (a sale) before they have completed a recall of those securities...

Can police do this? entering a property and look over a fence?
If the officer was looking over the fence in the line of duty (checking on the n...

How to cash a cashier's check without ID?
I would get some I.D.! Other than that, maybe you can tell the investigator you ...

Bar issues include constant trash in front of my business, left over open containers of alcohol and broken beer bottles in parking lot. Overnight parking in front of my business from bar customers who drank too much and
Find out about city ordinances. Talk to them and see how they can help; be court...

My exwife got a judgement aganst me. years latter i remarried and bought a home i told my new wife that I was not sure about owning real property so soon . our realtor told us I could file a quick claim deed. i sign it t
A quick claim deed has "No warranties" to anything. Your real estate a...

How to prove child support payments were sent by US Mail?
Your best bet is to send the checks via certified mail return receipt requested....

Securities Settlement
GMH Trust Securities to pay $8.75 million in pending class action suit.

Auction Rate Securities
ARS stocks purchased from a brokerage

Grubb & Ellis
alleging violations of fiduciary duties to shareholders and securities laws.

Evergreen
Wachovia, Settle Securities Allegations over Ultra Short Opportunities Fund

Coca-Cola Co.
has agreed to pay $137.5 million to settle a securities lawsuit claiming the company artificially inflated sales to boost its stock price.

Brent Lemons
$1.3 million settlement in securities fraud lawsuit.