Cleary Gottlieb Discusses How Court Allowed Securities Liability for Slack’s Direct Listing

By Nicolas Grabar, David Lopez, Jared Gerber and Les Silverman May 4, 2020 by Jared Gerber

Over the last two years, direct listings – in which companies list their stock on an exchange to enable insiders and early investors to sell their holdings to the public without issuing new shares – have received considerable attention as …

Cleary Discusses 2017 Developments in Securities and M&A Litigation

By Jared Gerber, Abena Mainoo, Amanda Ravich, Vanessa C. Richardson and Gregory N. Wolfe February 20, 2018 by Jared Gerber

The trend of increased securities class action filings in federal courts continued from 2016 to 2017.^[1] Federal court filings of class actions related to M&A transactions again contributed to the increase.^[2] Foreign issuers remained frequent targets of federal …

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Cleary Gottlieb Discusses How Court Allowed Securities Liability for Slack’s Direct Listing

Cleary Discusses 2017 Developments in Securities and M&A Litigation