A Not-So-Free Market
While the U.S. is allegedly built on a free market, the market is only free to be manipulated and profited off of by the wealthy.
Bloomberg Introduces Readers To The Personification Of Wealth Inequality In America… Hilarity Ensues
Today's profile of Chase Coleman III is comforting for old guard Wall Street and the perfect reading material for Bernie Bros passing time on the ramparts.
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The Appeal Of Litigation Finance To Institutional Investors
Why are institutional investors showing increased interest in this asset class?
Raise Your Hand If You Recently Left Your Job At The SEC And DON’T Now Work For Ken Griffin
Preparing for some kind of regulatory Ragnarok?
A Homecoming For Preet Bharara
Like all reunions, it’s gonna be awkward.
FTC Now Helping Herbalife Recover From $200M FTC Fine
The Passion of Bill Ackman continues.
Convicted Insider-Trader’s New Book Not Titled ‘Take The Damned Deal’
Michael Kimelman waxes at great length about how awful the prison term he could have avoided was.
Marketing To Alternatives Investors
For securities lawyers and litigation financiers, the issue of how to successfully market to investors is crucial.
Cat Bonds Are The Cutest Way to Invest In The Apocalypse
Look at the news, take a deep breath and remember that there’s value in catastrophe.
Lawyer Takes On Scourge Of Christmas Music
Lawyer takes on the wife of a hedge fund boss over Christmas music.
Make Prisons Profitable Again
One sector is pleased with Trump's victory.
Self-Learning Machines Beating Hedge Funds — What Lawyers Need to Know
Even if one believes that lawyers themselves are insulated from the changing nature of financial markets, their clients are not.
Low-Cost Hedge Fund Replication May Threaten Securities Lawyers
It’s a brave new world, and securities lawyers should be considering how their role in that world will work.
Behold, The Shakespearean Plot Twist At The Heart Of The Cooperman Insider Trading Case
Coming soon to an old-timey theater near you!
The Next Time Leon Cooperman (Allegedly) Engages In Insider Trading, It’ll Be In Shares Of A Company Whose Execs Will Lie To The SEC For Him
Goddamn corporate hacks and their need to honest with the Securities and Exchange Commission.