11/21/2025 8:43:41 PM Deals Under Pressure: M&A in a Volatile Crypto Market By Emily Kapur Rob Fuqua Crypto M&A is surging as crypto prices decline—a mix that can turn signed deals into battlegrounds. In Q3 2025, M&A deal values jumped...
11/21/2025 4:03:16 PM The White Collar Appeal: Eighth Circuit Addresses Meaning of “Willfulness” in Election Fraud Statutes By Daniel Koffmann Kai Mayer In United States v. Taylor, the defendant argued that she could not have acted willfully because she was not familiar with Iowa election...
11/19/2025 8:35:04 PM Insider Trading Remains a Law Enforcement Priority Amid the Looming Drought in White Collar Prosecutions By Stephen Frank This week’s unsealing in Boston of a superseding indictment charging eight defendants in an alleged insider trading ring spanning...
11/14/2025 2:17:29 AM The White Collar Appeal: Ninth Circuit Vacates Guilty Verdict Due to Coercive Allen Charge By Daniel Koffmann Marielle Greenblatt In a nonprecedential decision, the Ninth Circuit vacated a jury verdict after the district court allowed the jury to review a copy of the...
11/8/2025 11:28:48 PM The White Collar Appeal: Ninth Circuit Decision in Regulatory Crime Case Raises Thorny Constitutional Questions By Daniel Koffmann Kai Mayer In a case involving dirt biking with a broken taillight, the Ninth Circuit waded into the muddy terrain of criminal enforcement of...
11/6/2025 12:24:34 AM The White Collar Appeal: Kirilyuk’s Luck Runs Out in his Second Trip to the Ninth Circuit Challenging the Meaning of “Loss” Under the Sentencing Guidelines By Daniel Koffmann Neil Phillips In 2022, a split Ninth Circuit panel vacated a 324-month sentence for credit card fraud where the district court had relied on a...
10/29/2025 4:52:57 PM The White Collar Appeal: Acquittal on Conspiracy Count Bars Retrial on Substantive Counts in Revenue-Recognition Securities Fraud Case By Daniel Koffmann Michael Bloom The Second Circuit’s opinion in United States v. Cole not only erases his fraud convictions and wipes the slate clean for Neil Cole, it...
10/22/2025 11:16:38 PM The White Collar Appeal: Second Circuit Says You Can’t Forfeit What You Never Had By Daniel Koffmann Marielle Greenblatt Weighing in on a growing circuit split, the Second Circuit in United States v. Elias recently nixed a forfeiture order that apportioned...
10/10/2025 7:56:24 PM The White Collar Appeal: Fifth Circuit Reinstates Pump-and-Dump Indictment Based on Kousisis By Daniel Koffmann Neil Phillips Reversing a rare pretrial dismissal of indictment, the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Constantinescu recently clarified the elements...
9/30/2025 10:14:50 PM Government Shutdown Looms: What's Next for SEC Enforcement By Sarah Heaton Concannon As we rapidly approach the midnight September 30th deadline, Congress remains deadlocked over funding, with Republicans and Democrats at...
9/30/2025 3:42:40 PM SEC Reinstates Simultaneous Review of Settlements and Waivers By Kurt Wolfe Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a significant procedural shift: companies under investigation can now...
9/26/2025 8:58:49 PM The White Collar Appeal: Horse-Doping Case Provides Insight on Forfeiture and FDCA Issues By Daniel Koffmann Kai Mayer In determining whether misbranding violations under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act permit criminal forfeiture, the Second Circuit...