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Why Can’t We Be Friends?

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Recently, the SEC announced settled charges against a former chairman/CEO and director of Church & Dwight Co. Inc., for violating proxy disclosure rules by standing for election as an independent director without informing...more

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ICAHN Settles With SEC for Failures to Disclose Key Details of Margin Loan Stock Pledges - Teaching Moment for Directors and...

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On August, 19, 2024, the SEC announced settled charges against Carl C. Icahn and his publicly traded company, Icahn Enterprises L.P. (IEP), for failing to disclose information relating to Icahn’s pledges of IEP securities –...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cadwalader Climate - July 2024 #4

In this week’s edition we discuss the implications of a decision against the National Crime Agency, which the UK’s Court of Appeal held had misinterpreted the law when it refused to investigate whether imported cotton was...more

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International Bar Association Releases Updated Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest

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The Situation: In February 2024, the International Bar Association ("IBA") updated its Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration ("Guidelines"). The Guidelines provide detailed guidance for arbitrators...more

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Supreme Court: Pure Omissions Cannot Support Rule 10b-5(b) Liability

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On April 12, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P. that pure omissions are not actionable under Rule 10b-5(b), promulgated by the US Securities...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Supreme Court narrows scope of omissions liability under the Securities Exchange Act

On April 12, 2024, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split and limited the scope of omissions liability under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5(b). The decision will limit the scope of...more

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Supreme Court Holds that Pure Omissions Cannot Support a Private Cause of Action Under SEC Rule 10b-5(b)

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After hearing arguments on January 16, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its unanimous opinion on Macquarie Infrastructure Corp., et al. v. Moab Partners, LP, et al, on April 12, 2024. The Supreme Court granted certiorari to...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split and Holds ‘Pure Omissions’ Outside Reach of Section 10(b) Liability

On April 12, a unanimous Supreme Court held in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P. that material omissions are actionable under Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and its enabling SEC Rule 10b-5 only if the...more

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US Supreme Court: Pure Omissions Not Actionable UnderRule 10b-5(b)

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On April 12, 2024, the US Supreme Court reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s decision in Macquarie v. Moab Partners and held that a pure omission cannot form the basis of a securities fraud claim under...more

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US Supreme Court: Pure Omissions Not Actionable Under Rule 10b-5(b)

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On April 12, 2024, the US Supreme Court reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s decision in Macquarie v. Moab Partners and held that a pure omission cannot form the basis of a securities fraud claim under...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Distinguishes Half-Truths from Pure Omissions and Holds That Pure Omissions Are Not Actionable Under Rule...

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Answering a precise question increasingly raised by securities fraud plaintiffs, the United States Supreme Court held in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners that a failure to disclose information cannot support a...more

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SCOTUS Unanimously Resolves Securities Fraud Circuit Split

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On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that, in the absence of an otherwise misleading statement, a failure to disclose information required by Item 303 of Regulation S-K (“Item 303”) does not support a...more

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U.S. Supreme Court: "Pure" Omissions Are Not Actionable Under Rule 10b-5

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On April 12, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. et al v. Moab Partners, L.P., et al. which held that omissions, by themselves, are not subject to private rights...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SCOTUS Limits Certain 10(b) Claims Based on Violations of Item 303

In a unanimous decision issued on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a corporation’s failure to disclose information regarding known trends or uncertainties, required by SEC regulation, cannot be the basis for private...more

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Supreme Court Rejects Securities Lawsuit Based On “Pure Omission” From SEC Filings

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In a narrow but potentially significant decision, the Supreme Court has held that securities-fraud plaintiffs cannot recover based on a “pure omission” from a company’s public statements under the most common legal basis for...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Supreme Court Rejects 'Pure Omissions” Liability Under Rule 10b-5

On April 12, a unanimous Supreme Court held that issuers are not liable under Rule 10b-5(b) for “pure omissions.” The Court’s decision ends a long-standing circuit split and, most importantly for public companies, narrows the...more

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Supreme Court Underscores Limited Applicability of Rule 10b-5(b) Omissions Claims

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In Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., No. 22-1165, 601 U.S. ___ (April 12, 2024), the United States Supreme Court held that “pure omissions are not actionable” for securities fraud asserted specifically...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Supreme Court Rules Pure Omissions Not Actionable under Rule 10b-5

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On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., No. 22-1165, 601 U.S. __ (Apr. 12, 2024), in which the Court held that pure omissions are not actionable...more

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US Supreme Court Holds ‘Pure Omissions’ Not Actionable Under 10(b) of Securities Exchange Act, Resolving Circuit Split

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In a blow to the plaintiffs’ securities bar, the US Supreme Court in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners unanimously held that a “pure omission”—the failure to disclose information in the absence of an inaccurate,...more

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SCOTUS: Pure Omissions Do Not Support Securities Fraud Claims Even If the Omissions Violate SEC Disclosure Requirements

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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. et al. v. Moab Partners L.P. et al., holding that an omission to make disclosures required by U.S. Securities and Exchange...more

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SEC charges Skechers with failure to disclose related-person transactions involving family members

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Recently, the SEC announced settled charges against Skechers U.S.A., Inc., a public footwear company traded on the NYSE, for allegedly failing to disclose payments to executives’ immediate family members and loans to...more

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The Supreme Court Considers Item 303 Violations as Basis for Securities Fraud Claims

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Corporate executives know they must disclose in their companies’ financial statements trends or uncertainties affecting their business. Such disclosure is a requirement of Item 303 of SEC Regulation S-K....more

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The SEC Brings Another Enforcement Action On Related Party Transaction Disclosures

On March 7, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that Skechers U.S.A. Inc. (“Skechers”) agreed to a cease-and-desist order for failing to disclose payments for the benefit of its executives and...more

Locke Lord LLP

FTC Takes Action Against Social ‎Media Posts for Failure to Disclose Material ‎Connections

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On November 15, 2023, the FTC announced that it had issued fourteen Warning Letters ‎to the two trade associations, the American Beverage Association (AmeriBev) and the Canadian ‎Sugar Institute (“the Associations”), as well...more

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Indecent Disclosure: FTC Slams Advertisers and Influencers for Failure to Divulge Material Connections

Last June, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its revised Endorsement Guides, the handbook for business practices that may be unfair or deceptive in violation of the FTC Act. The Endorsement Guides had been last...more

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