US Legal & Regulation

The SEC has alleged that two M&A professionals, Nicos Achilleas Stephanou at UBS Investment Bank and Ramesh Chakrapani at Blackstone Advisory Services, tipped five individuals inclu »

Federal judge Mark A. »

US Senators Chuck Grassley and Carl Levin have introduced legislation designed to close a loophole in securities law that, they argue, currently allows hedge funds to operate under a cl »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has obtained a federal court order in Rochester, New York, freezing the assets of Atwood & James, Ltd. »

US-based hedge fund industry body the Managed Funds Association has expressed its support for the announcement of new legislation by Senators Charles E. »

The two private-sector committees established by the President's Working Group on Financial Markets in the US have released their final sets of best practices for asset managers and hed »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged James Ossie and his company CRE Capital Corporation with operating a Ponzi scheme involving more than 100 people and approximatel »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged Joseph S Forte of Broomall, Pennsylvania with operating a Ponzi scheme involving around USD50m in connection with the unregistere »

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed and settled charges of fraud, filing false documents and misappropriation of customer funds against a registered commodity pool ope »

The US District Court for the District of Connecticut has entered a default judgment order against Diego Mariano Rolando, a citizen of Argentina, finding that he committed commodity fut »