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The Road Not Taken

A utility of comparative law is that it sometimes allows us to see the impacts of different choices regarding legal rules without performing a ‘Gedanken experiment’. In an ...

11 December 2017

Franklin A. Gevurtz

Insider Tainting: Strategic Tipping of Material Non-Public Information

In an article forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review, I analyze the strategic use of insider trading law to disable the trading activity of an information recipient....

20 September 2017

Andrew Verstein

Political Connections and Insider Trading

The ties between businessmen and politicians have received close scrutiny in recent years. The 2016 presidential election in the United States has increased the public feeling that business...

US Supreme Court Looks at Insider Trading Law, Leaves it Where it Found it

The US Supreme Court recently issued its opinion in US v Salman, a case introduced on this blog in October when the parties presented their arguments...

15 December 2016

Martin Bengtzen

The US Supreme Court will today consider “insider tipping” of material information

The US Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments in Salman v. U.S., an insider trading case where the court will revisit a topic it last considered in its...

5 October 2016

Martin Bengtzen

The Valuation Impact of SEC Enforcement Actions on Nontarget Foreign Firms

The impact of securities law enforcement on investors’ valuation of public companies has important implications for the design of capital market regulation. Academic theories indicate that public enforcement helps constrain...

14 July 2016

Roger Silvers

Resuscitating Dirks: How the Salman 'Gift Theory' of Tipper-Tippee Personal Benefit Would Improve Insider Trading Law

Insider-trading is undoubtedly one of the murkiest areas of white-collar law, frustrating prosecutors, investors, and jurists alike. Specifically, the standard of what satisfies the “personal benefit” element of tipper-tippee insider-trading...

6 July 2016

Katherine Drummonds

Information Disclosure and Insider Trading Around Board Meetings

My new paper (available here) features a novel dataset of firms’ regular board meeting schedules, hand-collected from corporate by-laws. Corporate by-laws include a provision about when and where...

10 May 2016

Seil Kim

The New European Union Market Abuse Regulation

This post comes to us from John F. Savarese, Wayne M. Carlin, and Jonathan Siegel of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.Two months from now, on 3...

3 May 2016

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Information-Dissemination Law: The Regulation of How Market-Moving Information is Revealed

Corporate information that moves stock-market prices has long sat at the center of modern securities regulation in the United States. The Great Depression-era securities laws at the foundation of the...

2 May 2016

Kevin S. Haeberle

M. Todd Henderson

The Road Not Taken

Insider Tainting: Strategic Tipping of Material Non-Public Information

Political Connections and Insider Trading

US Supreme Court Looks at Insider Trading Law, Leaves it Where it Found it

The US Supreme Court will today consider “insider tipping” of material information

The Valuation Impact of SEC Enforcement Actions on Nontarget Foreign Firms

Resuscitating Dirks: How the Salman 'Gift Theory' of Tipper-Tippee Personal Benefit Would Improve Insider Trading Law

Information Disclosure and Insider Trading Around Board Meetings

The New European Union Market Abuse Regulation

Information-Dissemination Law: The Regulation of How Market-Moving Information is Revealed

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