Today, jurors in New Haven, Connecticut, federal court returned a verdict in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s favor against an investment adviser and its owner. The jury found that Westport Capital Markets, LLC, a Connecticut-based investment advisory firm, and its owner, Christopher E. McClure, defrauded their advisory clients by repeatedly purchasing securities that generated significant undisclosed compensation, […]
H2O Asset Management’s bond funds have lost nearly half their value in a matter of weeks, after the London-based fund manager experienced another day of severe losses on Thursday. H2O, a subsidiary of French bank Natixis that managed about €30bn of assets at the start of the year, has emerged as one of Europe’s highest-profile […]
Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari partner Ryan Bakhtiari has been invited to participate as a speaker at the 2019 Practicing Law Institute (PLI) conference program on Tuesday, September 10, 2019. The PLI Securities Arbitration program is held at the PLI New York Center and also online by webcast. The program brings together legal professionals with securities […]
Out of nowhere, a $693 million loan Clover took to the market five years ago lost about a third of its value. This collapse was surprising to insiders who trade corporate loans. Clover had been operating since 1996 when it was acquired by Golden Gate which followed an usual path of private equity buyouts — […]
On April 1, 2019, the SEC obtained a preliminary injunction and order appointing a receiver over registered investment adviser Direct Lending Investments, LLC. According to the SEC’s complaint, Direct Lending, through its owner and CEO Brendan Ross, engaged in a multi-year effort to manipulate the performance data for one of Direct Lending’s significant investments in […]