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Allen Matkins

Does The SEC's Jurisdiction Really Extend To Any Person?

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Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had settled charges against a broker-dealer and two investment advisers for impeding their clients from reporting securities law violations to the SEC. ...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Second Circuit Upholds Insider-Trading Conviction and Clarifies Scope of Requisite Fiduciary Relationship

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The Second Circuit yesterday affirmed the insider-trading conviction of a doctor who, in breach of a confidentiality agreement, had traded on nonpublic information about a drug trial in which he had been participating.  The...more

A&O Shearman

Product derived indirectly from earlier misuse of confidential information – what damages are available?

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When considering damages for breach of confidence, there is a distinction between products which embody confidential information and those which merely derive from earlier misuse of information. The Court of Appeal in MVF 3...more

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