Corporate and Securites Law
All shares issued in the United States, and subsequently traded by whatever means, fall under the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a federal government body. It also governs option-contract markets. Meanwhile, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, another government agency, has responsibility for futures dealings, both for the stock-index markets and for contracts. Below are corporate law and securities law resources.
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| Corporate Killing Laws Won't Make Us Safer For all their moral force, corporate killing laws won't make us safer. Grimly, but fittingly, legislation inspired by a... |
SEC Accuses Lucent of $1bn Dotcom Era Fraud The United States securities watchdog yesterday filed fraud charges against Lucent Technologies and nine former workers,... |
| Corporate Europe Chilled By Enron-style Scandal It has already been dubbed Parmasplat, and Europe's Enron. The Securities and Exchange Commission has called it: "One... |
SEC calls for details of Grasso's $140m Wall Street yesterday witnessed the opening of a potentially serious rift between two of its regulatory bodies when the... |
| SEC seeks ban on Ernst & Young The securities and exchange commission is seeking to ban accounting firm Ernst & Young from taking any new clients for six... |
SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt Resigns The Bush administration today began the search for a new financial regulator after Harvey Pitt, the gaffe-prone chairman of... |
| Two Worldcom Officials Indicted Former WorldCom finance chief Scott Sullivan was indicted yesterday on charges of securities fraud, setting the stage for... |
US clean-up laws cause confusion Corporate chiefs delay compliance with new rules. The chief executives and finance directors of about 1,200 top US and... |
| SEC to investigate AOL accounting practices The US securities and exchange commission has opened an investigation into the accounting practices of AOL Time Warner. | |