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Securities Class Action Filings: 2024 Midyear Assessment - Summary of Trend Filings

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This is an excerpt from Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment - This figure highlights recent trend categories that have appeared in core filing activity. See the Glossary for definitions of each trend...more

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What Legal Trends are Impacting MicroCap Issuers in 2024?

The legal and regulatory landscape for MicroCap investing is ever-evolving, including challenges involving compliance with the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and securities exchanges including...more

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Robinhood Cuts Workforce by 23% to Counter Ill-Advised Expansion

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Trading app Robinhood, which “popularized one-click trading and helped fuel last year’s meme stock frenzy,” announced this week that it’s firing 23% of its workforce. The move comes on the heels of the company laying off 340...more

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Powell Admits Recession Possible, Sees Tricky Path to Soft Landing

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In closely watched testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Fed Chair Powell acknowledged on Wednesday that the central bank faced a perilous situation in trying to “lower rapid inflation without tipping America into a...more

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White House Considers Tapping Oil Reserve to Ease Gas Prices

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White House officials are mulling over a plan that would “release one million barrels of oil a day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for as long as 180 days,” a move intended to ease sticker shock at the pump for Americans...more

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FINRA’S 2022 Report on Examination & Risk Monitoring Program

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Over the last couple of decades, the securities self-regulatory organization FINRA (f/k/a NASD) informs its membership each year of what compliance risks are noted by its examination program. Those are risks firms should...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.10.2021 - Buffalo Workers Unionize First Company-Owned Starbucks

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Workers at a Buffalo, NY-based Starbucks location have voted to unionize, the first ever union to form at one of Sbux’s “nearly 9,000 company-owned stores.” Though but one, the victory “represents a challenge to the labor...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.7.2021 - Samsung Shakes Up Leadership, Consolidates Business Units

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Samsung surprised the business world today by replacing the “heads of its three major business units and merg[ing] the company’s mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single unit.” The moves mean the South Korean...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.28.2021 | Top Story: Fed Officials Mired in Trading Scandal to Step Down

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Major Fed news to start the week, as we’ve learned that Dallas Fed President Robert S. Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren are stepping down (both earlier than planned) in the wake of a dust-up over each “trading...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

What’s the Deal? – Rule 144A

What’s the Deal? An ATM offering is a follow-on offering of securities utilized by publicly traded companies in order to raise capital over a period of time. In an ATM offering, an issuer sells newly issued shares into...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.24.2021 | Top Story: Full FDA Pfizer Vax Approval Buoys Markets

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Markets used news of the FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine as the excuse they needed to jump back up after a few days of losses. All three major indices were up near the 1% range, with the Nasdaq...more

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SEC Threatens to Slap SPACs

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The use of SPACs has reached unprecedented levels, but recent pronouncements from the SEC may signal heightened enforcement and litigation risk for SPACs, as well as their sponsors, officers and directors, and auditors. The...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.19.2021 | Top Story: OPEC+ to Boost Production Following Saudi/UAE Truce

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Members of the OPEC+ coalition have reached a deal to increase oil production, a “move that could help ease the pressure on gas prices and inflation as economies around the world recover after pandemic lockdowns.” ...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.14.2021 | Top Story: Some Prices Pop in June, Pushing CPI to Highest Increase Since 2008

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As expected, the CPI update for June made waves on Tuesday, with prices climbing some 5.4% last month—the biggest increase in over a decade. The jump led Federal Reserve and White House officials to issue statements to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.19.2021 | Top Story: Bitcoin Plummets In Correction Following Coinbase’s Public Debut

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Because volatility’s the name of the game whenever we’re talking cryptos, it’s hard to be too shocked by the news that last week’s banner Coinbase public market debut gave way to a digital currency walkback this weekend that...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.13.2021 | Top Story: Ant Group Agrees to Sweeping Overhaul to Appease Chinese Regulators

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Mere days after Chinese regulators hit Jack Ma’s Alibaba with a staggering $2.8 billion antitrust fine, the e-commerce giant’s sister company, Ant Group, announced “that it would undertake a sweeping, government-ordered...more

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SEC Warns SPAC Targets the Road May be Difficult

The SEC issued two pieces of guidance on special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs.  One piece, styled as a statement by Paul Munter, Acting Chief Accountant, speaks to financial reporting and auditing considerations of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.10.2021 | Top Story: U.S. Drops Plans to Force TikTok Sale to Oracle and Walmart

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After months of drama that we dutifully catalogued right here, the U.S. plan to “force the sale of TikTok’s American operations” to Oracle and Walmart “has been shelved indefinitely.” The forced sale has “languished since...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.1.2021 | Top Story: Exxon and Chevron Merger On Table as Covid Devastates Big Oil

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Moved by Covid’s bite out of the energy industry, oil behemoths ExxonMobil and Chevron Corp. have held talks about joining forces, “testing the water for what could be one of the largest corporate mergers ever.” ...more

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SEC Speaks: Promoting Growth in the Public Markets

During the annual Practising Law Institute’s SEC Speaks, Commissioner Lee discussed the state of public markets and public offerings.  The Commissioner addressed the shift toward continued reliance on the private markets...more

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Newly Approved Direct Listing Capital Raising Alternative On Hold Pending SEC Review

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For a fleeting moment, companies had the ability to raise capital on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) in connection with a direct listing (“primary direct listing”). On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange...more

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