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Pressure To Act Unethically Looms Over Wall Street, Survey Finds

NPA All Things Considered

Partner and chair of the Firm’s Whistleblower Representation Practice, Jordan A. Thomas, recently spoke to various media outlets on the findings of a recent survey co-sponsored by the Firm and The University of Notre Dame titled, The Street, The Bull, and The Crisis. The survey, which probed “the ethical views of a broad spectrum of...

Dealbook: Many on Wall Street Say It Remains Untamed

The New York Times

Partner and chair of the Firm’s Whistleblower Representation Practice, Jordan A. Thomas, recently spoke to various media outlets on the findings of a recent survey co-sponsored by the Firm and The University of Notre Dame titled, The Street, The Bull, and The Crisis. The survey, which probed “the ethical views of a broad spectrum of...

That $8 Billion Takeover Offer for Avon was Bogus

Associated Press

Avon said it had received no takeover offers Thursday after a purported $8 billion bid for the company filed with federal regulators led to three halts in the trading of its shares. Shares of Avon were halted several times due to volatility after the filing appeared on the website used by the Securities and Exchange...

Delays are Reported in SEC Whistleblower Program

One attorney in the field, Jordan Thomas, said he was “surprised” by the news report. “I have not seen the kind of delays reported,” he told InsideCounsel. If the issue relates to appeals of whistleblower awards, Thomas says that improved communication between the SEC and whistleblower may mean there will be fewer appeals and that...

Whistleblower Award Spotlights Anti-Retaliation Compliance

Corporate Counsel

Jordan A. Thomas recently commented on a case in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave its highest possible award to a hedge fund adviser whistleblower, capitalizing on the firm’s retaliation against him to send another welcoming message to would-be whistleblowers and a warning to companies. The SEC last year charged the hedge...

SEC Uses Firm’s Retaliation To Market Tipster Program

Jordan A. Thomas recently commented on a case in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave its highest possible award to a hedge fund adviser whistleblower, capitalizing on the firm’s retaliation against him to send another welcoming message to would-be whistleblowers and a warning to companies. The SEC last year charged the hedge...

SEC Awards $600K To Tipster In Paradigm Retaliation Case

Jordan A. Thomas recently commented on a case in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave its highest possible award to a hedge fund adviser whistleblower, capitalizing on the firm’s retaliation against him to send another welcoming message to would-be whistleblowers and a warning to companies. The SEC last year charged the hedge...

SEC Gives More Than $600,000 to Whistleblower in Retaliation Case

The Wall Street Journal

Jordan A. Thomas recently commented on a case in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave its highest possible award to a hedge fund adviser whistleblower, capitalizing on the firm’s retaliation against him to send another welcoming message to would-be whistleblowers and a warning to companies. The SEC last year charged the hedge...

The whistleblower’s tale: How an accountant took on Halliburton

Tony Menendez had no legal training, but he decided to represent himself in his appeal. For the next few years, he devoted thousands of hours of his time filing briefs, meeting deadlines, countering Halliburton’s team of white-shoe lawyers. Halliburton threw everything at Menendez. It argued that since the SEC hadn’t brought any enforcement action, his...

Blowing the Whistle: Former Employee’s Suit Against TPG Invokes Whistleblower Provision in Dodd-Frank

TPG Capital’s legal fight with its former spokesman, Adam Levine, may seem a bit lopsided. After all, TPG Capital manages $67 billion as one of the largest private equity firms in the world. Levine is, well, just one man. But Levine holds at least one possible ace: Jordan Thomas, the lead attorney for Levine, joined...

SEC Reviewing 12b-1 Fees

At a recent DC Bar event, Jordan A. Thomas, Chair of [prior firm][‘s] Whistleblower Practice as well as the Investor Rights Committee for the DC Bar, moderated a panel on the topic titled, “Straight Talk for Asset Managers and Their Counsel.” Jordan noted that the whistleblowers who are now coming forward are “more senior” and...

TPG Capital Threatened To ‘Gut’ Whistleblower ‘Like A Carp,’ Lawsuit Claims

Huffington Post

In a recent law suit involving a former head of public affairs for private equity firm TPG Capital, Jordan A. Thomas represents a whistleblower alleging that TPG improperly charged investors for expenses that should have been paid by the firm. The whistleblower claims he sent an email warning about the illegal practice to TPG’s chief...

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February 10, 2020

Jordan Thomas Recognized as a 2020 Top Thought Leader in Trust

Whistleblower Representation Practice Chair Jordan Thomas has been named a Trust Across America 2020 Top Thought Leader in Trust. A multi-year award winner, Jordan joins corporate leaders, academics and researchers who transform the way organizations build and operate their businesses. Describing Jordan’s work, Trust Across America wrote “And what if the SEC could tap the...

February 1, 2018

A Conversation with Jordan Thomas: The Origins of the SEC Whistleblower Program

Labaton Sucharow LLP

How to avoid the next financial crisis? How to detect the next fraud and deter the next fraudster? These questions plagued regulators, law enforcement, legislators and the public at large following the collapse of the global economy in 2008. One idea that would prove to be prescient and, in its execution, extraordinarily successful, was the...

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Labaton Sucharow Wins National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers Award for Securities Litigation

— Firm’s immigration pro bono efforts also recognized as the best in 2019 The National Law Journal has recognized Labaton Sucharow’s securities litigation practice as one of the best in 2019, earning the publication’s most prestigious plaintiffs’ bar award of the year. The NLJ’s annual Elite Trial Lawyers award honors the law firms that have demonstrated repeated success in...

Named one of the top whistleblower practices/attorneys in the country by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and The New Yorker

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