Matthew Allen

Jun 21, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Matthew Allen |Anthony Lupo |Emily Leongini |Kathryn Wilson

Although the pandemic is (mercifully) mostly behind us, many employers who implemented remote work arrangements as a pandemic measure have retained hybrid in-office/remote or fully remote workforce arrangements, providing employees with welcomed flexibility and providing employers with a wider labor pool from which to draw. But the dramatic increase in remote working arrangements has introduced uncertainty about what laws apply to employees who are not physically present in the workplace.

Feb 29, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Matthew Allen

Key Takeaways  Just as employees and companies should not buy or sell their own company’s stock based on material, nonpublic information, if the Panuwat decision stands they may not be able to buy or sell stock of another company based on their own company’s nonpublic information about the other company. Insider trading laws apply to certain trading by private companies and in private company stock as well as public company stock.

Feb 29, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Matthew Allen

Key TakeawaysJust as employees and companies should not buy or sell their own company’s stock based on material, nonpublic information, if the Panuwat decision stands they may not be able to buy or sell stock of another company based on their own company’s nonpublic information about the other company. Insider trading laws apply to certain trading by private companies and in private company stock as well as public company stock.

Jun 23, 2023 | natlawreview.com | Matthew Allen

The United States Supreme Court has ruled in an 8-1 decision that the U.S. government has broad authority to dismiss whistleblower actions over the individual whistleblower’s objections so long as the government intervenes under the False Claims Act (FCA) at some point in the case. The Court also held that the standard lower courts should apply to such a motion is the rule generally governing dismissal in civil suits – Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a). United States ex. rel. Polansky v.

Jun 19, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Matthew Allen

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Coinbase, Inc., alleging the crypto assets Coinbase made available for trading on its exchange met the definition of “securities.” Because Coinbase did not register the assets as securities, and because it did not itself register as a securities broker or exchange operator, the SEC alleges it has jurisdiction to prosecute Coinbase for these securities registration violations.