Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
The SEC claims Robare Group Ltd. failed to disclose a conflict of interest to its clients when it recommended they invest in particular mutual funds and in turn received compensation from the broker that was selling the funds.
The former executives were represented by two Dallas attorneys: Paul Coggins of Locke Lord and Danny Ashby of K&L Gates.
Mark Cuban’s long-time stockbroker told a federal court jury Tuesday that corporate compliance officials at UBS Financial Services raised no red flags or concerns about the legality of Cuban’s sale
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s star witness against Mark Cuban testified Wednesday that he made it clear that the information he provided the Dallas Mavericks owner nine years ago
Meet Billy Ravkind, Cheryl Wattley and Tom Mills.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Houston-based Key Energy Services for possible violations of federal bribery laws involving its operations in Mexico and Russia, according to corporate documents filed with the SEC.
The SEC's Fort Worth Office has charged a 47-year veteran of the oil and gas industry and his Irving-based energy company with operating a $10 million investment fraud scheme.
The Fort Worth Regional Office says Guardian Oil and Gas and its principal, Rick D. Mullins, raised $6.5 million in an allegedly illegal oil and gas offering fraud.
A lawsuit by a North Texas businessman who alleged that North Carolina banking giant BB&T Co. was involved in a scheme to defraud an arm of the federal government out of millions of dollars has been thrown out of court.
Energy company general counsel face significantly different litigation issues than the corporate legal departments in other business sectors. Norton Rose Fulbright's 10th Annual Litigation Trends Survey found that 56 percent of energy GCs faced litigation over contract disputes during the past year. Personal injury and environmental/toxic tort litigation were the next, followed closely by labor and employment.
Regulatory/investigations are near the top of the list of litigation concerns for senior in-house counsel, and more time is being spent on government or regulatory investigations in company legal departments.
A federal jury has nixed an attempt by a Los Angeles art gallery to do an end-run around the Robert Allen Stanford receivership claims process and recover nearly $3 million that it provided the imprisoned Houston billionaire’s empire for the purchase of 100 gold bars.
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