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Paul Weiss Discusses Highest N.Y. Court’s Affirmation of Derivative-Action Dismissal

By Audra J. Soloway, David P. Friedman and Daniel S. Sinnreich June 2, 2025 by renholding

On May 20, 2025, New York’s highest court affirmed dismissal of a shareholder derivative lawsuit against officers and directors of Barclays PLC—a bank holding company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales and headquartered in London. The 6–1 opinion …

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Undue Limitations in the Section 10(b) Purchaser-Seller Requirement

By Marc I. Steinberg and Antonio Partida May 21, 2024 by renholding

In a forthcoming article, we address recent restrictions and diverging approaches among the federal courts to the purchaser-seller requirement for a private action under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5. The “Purchaser-Seller Rule,” commonly …

Simpson Thacher Discusses Supreme Court Case on Standing and Direct-Listing Shares

By Jonathan Youngwood, Peter Kazanoff, Craig Waldman, Stephen Blake and David Elbaum February 6, 2023 by renholding

On December 13, 2022, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider whether Sections 11 and 12(a) of the Securities Act require a plaintiff who purchased shares through a direct listing to plead and prove that he bought shares registered under …

ISS Discusses the Challenges of Litigating Class Actions in the UK

By Elisa Mendoza December 6, 2021 by renholding

Although the United States inherited its common law legal system from the United Kingdom, the U.S. securities class actions jurisprudence is well advanced of the development of this area of law in the United Kingdom. With the first major collective …

Wachtell Lipton Discusses Important Supreme Court Business Cases Last Term and Next

By John F. Savarese, Kevin S. Schwartz, Sarah K. Eddy, Noah B. Yavitz and Adam L. Goodman July 15, 2021 by renholding

The Supreme Court’s now-concluded October Term 2020 marked a slow return to normalcy following the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic.  The Court released only 56 signed opinions — just a handful more than the prior Term, and well below the …

Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses Second Circuit Standard for Standing in Data Breach Actions

By Nicole Friedlander, Anthony Lewis, Nader Mousavi, Matt Schwartz and Jessica Ecker May 7, 2021 by renholding

On April 26, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a unanimous opinion in McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Associates, LLC [1] affirming the dismissal, on Article III standing grounds, of a class action predicated …

Paul Weiss Discusses Supreme Court Decision Limiting Standing to Sue for ERISA Plan Participants

By Kannon K. Shanmugam, Stacie M. Fahsel, William T. Marks and Ethan R. Merel June 15, 2020 by renholding

On June 1, 2020, the Supreme Court held in Thole v. U.S. Bank N.A.[1] that participants in a defined-benefit pension plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, commonly known as ERISA, lack Article III standing …

The Supreme Court “Saves” the Class Action:  Complex Litigation After Scalia

By John C. Coffee, Jr. April 4, 2016 by ilyabeylin

Just six months ago, when the Supreme Court’s current term opened in October, things looked bleak for the class action.  Three major cases were on the Court’s docket, and each seemed handpicked as a vehicle for the Court’s conservatives to …

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