2/10/2026 7:09:38 PM Market Volatility - Challenging Margin Calls: Investors' Rights, Remedies and Potential Claims By Yasseen Gailani Will Bartlett This is our second post concerning the legal implications for investors of market volatility under English law governed transactions. In...
2/9/2026 9:57:24 PM The White Collar Appeal: Corporate Cooperation Documents Produced to Grand Jury Not Subject to FOIA By Daniel Koffmann Thomas Chafin The Ninth Circuit recently rejected an attempt to use FOIA to obtain documents that Volkswagen produced in connection with the Dieselgate...
2/5/2026 6:55:39 PM Crypto Securities Suit Dismissed For Lack of “Investment of Money” By Ryan Gorman Emily Kapur In Moen v. SocialChain Inc., Magistrate Judge Nathanael M. Cousins of the Northern District of California recently dismissed claims...
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”...