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What is a Securities Fraud Class Action? A Guide for Attorneys and Clients

A securities fraud class action is a lawsuit filed on behalf of a large group of investors who lost money after a company made false or misleading statements about its business. Instead of each investor filing a separate case, the law lets one or a few investors stand up in…

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Perpetual Options: The Rise of a New Crypto Derivative and How to Value It

Perpetual Options: What They Are and How to Value Them

Perpetual options are options that never expire, and that one change creates a hard problem: how do you put a fair value on a contract with no end date? For attorneys, corporations, and regulators who deal with financial disputes, that question is turning practical. These instruments are moving from academic…

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SPAC Share Restriction Litigation

SPAC Share Restriction Litigation: How Damages Are Measured

SPAC share restriction litigation has become one of the more technically demanding areas of securities law to emerge from the de-SPAC boom, and the legal landscape is still evolving. When investors find themselves locked out of the market by restrictions they believe were wrongly imposed, extended, or never properly disclosed,…

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How AI is Complicating Reliance Arguments in Securities Class Actions

How AI is Complicating Reliance Arguments in Securities Class Actions

The fraud-on-the-market doctrine has been the backbone of securities class action litigation since Basic Inc. v. Levinson in 1988. It lets plaintiffs avoid the nearly impossible task of proving individual reliance – instead, they invoke a rebuttable presumption that anyone who traded in an efficient market effectively relied on the…

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