The Law of the Financial Markets from Top Securities Lawyers
Sunday, December 14, 2025
According to an article in AdvisorHub, UBS Orders Fee Waivers, Loan Discounts on Reassigned Accounts, UBS is drastically waiving fees and commissions for accounts of brokers who have left the firm, in a desperate attempt to keep those clients, and their assets. The fee waiver is causing concern for brokers who […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged disbarred attorney, Richard J. Rubin, and licensed attorney, Thomas J. Craft, with fraud for their roles in a legal opinion letter scheme to fraudulently facilitate the sale of millions of shares of… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an unregistered investment adviser based in Orlando, Florida for defrauding the Municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and misappropriating $7.1 million of taxpayer funds. According to the SEC’s complaint, in 2016, Eugenio Garcia Jimenez, Jr. told municipal officials that he could invest approximately $9 […]
The SEC today charged New York resident Mark Alan Lisser with fraud for operating at least two boiler rooms, on Long Island, New York and in Boca Raton, Florida, through which he raised approximately $2.1 million from at least 71 retail investors and… Read the Full Press Release Have a […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of over $6 million to joint whistleblowers whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement of SEC and related actions. The whistleblowers’ substantial assistance,… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & Cox at […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today released the agenda for the Dec. 1 meeting of the Asset Management Advisory Committee (AMAC). AMAC was formed to provide the Commission with diverse perspectives on asset management and related… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & Cox […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting on Dec. 3 by remote means. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. ET, is open to the public via live webcast, and will be archived on the committee’s website… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has voted to propose amendments to Securities Act Rule 701, which provides an exemption from registration for the issuance of compensatory securities by non-reporting issuers, and Form S-8,… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules that, on a temporary basis and subject to percentage limits (no more than 15% of annual compensation), dollar limits (no more than $75,000 in three years) and other conditions, would… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? […]
The SEC filed a complaint in federal court charging former Wells Fargo & Co. CEO and Chairman John G. Stumpf and former head of Wells Fargo’s Community Bank Carrie L. Tolstedt for their roles in allegedly misleading investors about the success of the Community Bank, Wells Fargo’s core business. Prior […]
