US Legal & Regulation

The Honourable Harold Baer, Jr, United States District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, entered a Final Judgment on Consent as to Diamondback Capital Management LLC on 6 April, 2012, in the SEC’s insider trading case, SEC v. Spyridon Adondakis et al., Civil Action 12-CV-0409 (SDNY) (HB). »

GenSpring Family Offices breached its fiduciary duty and committed gross negligence when it failed to adequately diversify the USD57 million portfolio of an ultra high net worth individual and misrepresented that hedge funds it recommended would perform like bonds, according to an arbitration claim filed by the law firms of Vernon Healy and Dovin Malkin & Ficken. »

The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has issued an order granting a preliminary injunction and other relief against Brian Raymond Callahan of Old Westbury, New York, and Callahan’s investment advisory firms, Horizon Global Advisors Ltd., and Horizon Global Advisors, LLC. »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a notice of intent to revoke the registrations of Illinois resident Joseph A Dawson (Dawson) and his company, Strategic Research LLC (SR), a registered Commodity Pool Operator (CPO). Dawson is the president and sole principal of SR and has been a registered Associated Person of SR since 13 February, 2009. »

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has testified before a House Agriculture Subcommittee in support of bipartisan legislation to ensure regulators around the world continue to share global swaps data to maintain the highest degree of transparency into over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. »

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has certified the Singapore Stock Exchanges’s (SGX) Euro Stoxx 50 Index Futures Contract for sale in the US. »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) has issued an Advisory regarding the treatment of bona fide hedging transactions and positions under Commission Regulations 1.3(z), 1.47, and 1.48 as they existed prior to the adoption of the final rule addressing Position Limits for Futures and Swaps.  »

Judge Richard Stearns of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered final judgments by default against Locust Offshore Management, LLC, and its CEO, Andrey C Hicks, defendants in a civil injunctive action filed by the Commission in October 2011. »

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a San Francisco-area investment adviser with defrauding investors by giving them a bogus audit report that embellished the financial performance of the fund in which they were investing. »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed an enforcement action charging Colorado-based defendants Arjent Capital Markets LLC (has), Chicago Trading Managers LLC (CT Managers), Spencer Montgomery, and Brian Reynolds with defrauding commodity pool investors by knowingly or recklessly issuing false account statements for three separate commodity pools. »