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22 Jan 2018, 4:18 pm by Kevin LaCroix
”[11] Analysis The Goldman Sachs case—along with Barclays and In re Petrobras Securities[12]—is one of three recent 23(f) petitions granted and decided by the Second Circuit concerning the fraud-on-the-market presumption of reliance. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 8:47 am
I am happy to announce the publication of "The Human Rights Obligations of Stet-Owned Enterprises: Emerging Conceptual Structure and Principles in National and International Law and Policy," which appears in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational law 50(4):827-888 (2017). [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 3:45 pm by scottgaille
  The below slide from Kosmos’ investor deck shows varying rates of commercial success in frontier plays (from 0% to about 33%) for companies such as Anadarko, BP, ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Repsol, Shell, Statoil, Total, and Tullow: American shale exploration is less risky because the wells are cheaper and the results less binary. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 5:58 am by David Lat
[New York Times] * Brazilian oil company Petrobras just announced a $2.95 billion class action settlement, which will be the largest settlement of a class action U.S. securities fraud suit this decade if approved (by Judge Jed Rakoff, so it's not a foregone conclusion). [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 2:47 pm by Kevin LaCroix
I have had this perception for several years now that the U.S. [read post]
12 Nov 2017, 11:00 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Building on its recent decision in In re Petrobras Securities Litigation,[9] the Second Circuit held that a plaintiff need not always offer direct event study evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between new information and stock price movements before satisfying its burden to prove market efficiency at the class certification stage. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 4:31 pm by Kevin LaCroix
In support of the assertion that claimants will tend to choose the jurisdiction with “the lowest thresholds and fewest safeguards,” the report cites as examples the purportedly “global” collective investor actions that have been filed in the Netherlands on behalf of BP investors in connection with the Gulf oil spill; on behalf of Volkswagen investors in connection with the Dieselgate scandal (refer here); and in connection with the Petrobras scandal. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 4:31 pm by Kevin LaCroix
In support of the assertion that claimants will tend to choose the jurisdiction with “the lowest thresholds and fewest safeguards,” the report cites as examples the purportedly “global” collective investor actions that have been filed in the Netherlands on behalf of BP investors in connection with the Gulf oil spill; on behalf of Volkswagen investors in connection with the Dieselgate scandal (refer here); and in connection with the Petrobras scandal. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 2:20 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Every year just after Labor Day, I take a step back and survey the most important current trends and developments in the world of Directors’ and Officers’ liability and D&O insurance. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 6:48 am by Renae Lloyd
It also accused him of accumulating 16,000 shares of Brazilian petroleum producer Petrobras and of certain bonds between 2011 and late 2013, long after HM had instructed him to sell the securities. [read post]
15 Jul 2017, 3:00 am by Ann Lipton
Yes, I’m probably overstating, but still, the Second Circuit’s opinion in In re Petrobras Securities, 2017 WL 2883874 (2d Cir. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 9:58 am
"2nd Circuit's Petrobras opinion is bad news for class action defendants at SCOTUS": Alison Frankel's "On the Case" from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post. [read post]