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On September 16, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of insider trading claims against Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs (the “Banks”) following the March 2021 collapse of Archegos Capital Management. Plaintiffs—investors in seven …
Sidney Weinberg and his son John Weinberg both served as longstanding chairmen of Goldman Sachs. Recently, John’s 1948 Princeton undergraduate thesis came to light. Like a 1933 memorandum and a 1949 speech by Sidney, it addressed a fundamental issue: What …
On August 10, 2023, the Second Circuit handed down its highly anticipated decision in Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.[1] The court reversed the district court’s decision to certify a class action and remanded with …
Last December, Subaru boasted in TV ads of having donated over $250 million to charity in the last few years. The company specifically claimed that it was the ASPCA’s largest corporate donor. Animal lover that I am, I got a …
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has signaled that it wants to increase enforcement against “greenwashing” – misrepresentation of a company’s environmental actions. It is not yet clear, though, whether these enforcement efforts will expand the risk of corporate criminal …
On Friday night, December 11, 2020, tucked below its order denying Texas’s bid to overturn the results of the Presidential election, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review what petitioners Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and its former top executives (“Goldman”) …
The impact of technology on finance (FinTech) is one of the hottest topics in business, law, and regulation, with academics and practitioners considering a host of issues that include cryptocurrencies, robo-advice, initial coin offerings, and algorithmic analyses of big data. …