Year: 2008

This week in securities litigation familiar themes continued to be the key topic: the health of the SEC’s enforcement program, insider trading and option backdating. The health of SEC enforcement The debate over the future of the SEC’s enforcement program, …

This Week In Securities Litigation (May 2, 2008 edition) Read More »

SEC v. Langford, Civil Action No. cv-08-B-0761-S (N.D. Ala. April 30, 2008) is the Commissions first enforcement action involving security-based swap agreements – a derivative which in this case involved an agreement to exchange periodic interest rate payments on an …

First Enforcement Case Involving Security-Based Swaps Read More »