2/2/2026 5:12:59 PM Market Volatility - Margin Calls: Investors' Rights, Remedies and Potential Claims By Yasseen Gailani Will Bartlett This post is the first in a series concerning the legal implications for investors of market volatility under English law governed...
1/30/2026 10:02:34 PM OFAC Issues New General License Authorizing Venezuelan-Origin Oil Transactions By Juan Morillo Stephen Hauss Nicholas Inns William Dawley +1 more... Show less On January 29, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a general license authorizing...
1/28/2026 6:00:43 PM SDNY Dismisses RICO and State Law Claims Against KuCoin and Chainalysis Over Laundered Cryptocurrency By Emily Kapur William Dawley In Reca v. Flashdot Limited, Judge Gregory Woods of the Southern District of New York recently dismissed RICO and state law claims...
1/28/2026 2:55:53 PM Data Breaches and the Reality of Off-Chain Risk By Emily Kapur Rob Fuqua In the first week of January 2026, the cryptocurrency community was reminded that crypto now faces many of the same operational risks as...
1/22/2026 8:35:07 PM Plus ça change? What continuation deals mean for private equity disputes By Yasseen Gailani As highlighted in recent articles in the New York Times and the FT, continuation deals have moved rapidly from the periphery to the...
1/20/2026 11:58:10 AM The White Collar Appeal: Seventh Circuit Refines Section 666 Analysis Following Supreme Court’s Snyder Decision By Daniel Koffmann JoAnne Wicki Revisiting Section 666 jury instructions that the Supreme Court’s 2024 Snyder decision called into question, the Seventh Circuit affirmed...
1/15/2026 10:21:59 AM The White Collar Appeal: Eleventh Circuit Vacates Sentence Based on the Distinction Between “Conspiracy” and “Jointly Undertaken Criminal Activity” By Daniel Koffmann Grace Sullivan United States v. Barry seems to set a difficult standard for the government to show “jointly undertaken activity” for purposes of the...
12/29/2025 10:12:08 PM The White Collar Appeal: Sixth Circuit Reaffirms “Willfulness” Standard for Healthcare Fraud and Vacates Restitution Orders By Daniel Koffmann Adelyn Curran Despite a plainly erroneous “willfulness” instruction, which related to the key issue at trial, the Sixth Circuit affirmed the...
12/22/2025 5:44:48 PM The White Collar Appeal: Second Circuit Enforces Grand Jury Subpoena Based on Foregone-Conclusion Exception By Daniel Koffmann Neil Phillips A recipient of a grand jury subpoena cannot assert the Fifth Amendment act-of-production privilege where it is a “foregone conclusion”...
12/22/2025 5:44:21 PM The White Collar Appeal: Seventh Circuit Reverses Bank Fraud Convictions under Plain-Error Standard By Daniel Koffmann Marielle Greenblatt Bank fraud requires submission of a false or misleading statement to a bank itself—not merely a separate fraud that results in...
12/9/2025 3:53:02 PM The White Collar Appeal: Second Circuit Affirms Conviction of Goldman Sachs Managing Director in 1MDB Scandal By Daniel Koffmann Marielle Greenblatt The Second Circuit recently rejected a number of arguments from Roger Ng, the former Goldman Sachs managing director convicted in...
12/8/2025 5:17:45 PM The White Collar Appeal: Cooperation is the Only Thing that Matters in Setting a Sentence Beneath the Mandatory Minimum By Daniel Koffmann Kiersten Whitfield A cooperating defendant can obtain a sentence below the mandatory minimum only when the value of his cooperation—as distinct from other...