Sky Blog
In securities fraud class actions, plaintiffs must prove that a stock was traded in an efficient market in order to invoke a presumption that—under the fraud-on-the-market theory articulated in Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224, 247 (1988)—issues of …
On February 6, 2026, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of securities fraud claims on loss causation grounds where the stock price decline following the purported revelation of the fraud was “modest, typical, and quickly reversed.” The …
On November 25, 2024, plaintiffs Sjunde AP-Fonden and The Cleveland Bakers And Teamsters Pension Fund (together “Plaintiffs”) moved Judge Jesse Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) for preliminary approval of a …
What a long, strange trip it’s been for Twitter shareholders since the company’s November 7, 2013 Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
Aside from the current litigation dominating today’s headlines between Twitter and Elon Musk – which
On May 27, the Second Circuit issued a ruling that significantly heightens the already heavy burden plaintiffs face in pleading corporate scienter. The Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of a putative securities class action against Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Avanos Medical, Inc. …
In 2016, hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (“Och-Ziff”) entered into one of the largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) resolutions ever: It agreed to pay a total of $412 million to the Department of Justice and the Securities and …
There is consensus among economists that legal protections for investor rights have a positive impact on corporate value. The intuition is that investors are willing to pay a higher price for a firm’s stock when there are laws in place …
The continued explosion in the number of securities class action filings is once again the big headline in our half yearly update. The now-sustained increase in both the number of filings and average and median settlement amounts—including a five-fold increase …