Two former DLA Piper partners on Monday said that they have decamped to form Smith Villazor LLP, a litigation-focused boutique firm based in New York that will focus on white collar, regulatory enforcement and high-stakes civil matters. Patrick Smith, the ex-co-chair of DLA Piper’s white collar, corporate crime and investigations…
Patrick Smith, co-chair of DLA Piper’s white-collar and investigations group, has formed a new firm in New York called Smith Villazor with Rodney Villazor, a fellow former federal prosecutor who joined the global legal giant’s litigation group last year.
Founding partners Patrick J. Smith and Rodney Villazor, together with associate Sarah Zimmer, opened for business as Smith Villazor LLP.
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday settled with a former stock analyst over accusations that he had failed to tell investors what he really believed about the value of a company’s shares he was promoting. Charles P. Grom, who worked for Deutsche Bank, will pay $100,000 to settle charges by…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to drop a lawsuit accusing two Dubai men of insider trading in Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc while the cancer drugmaker was mulling a takeover bid by Amgen Inc. Without explanation, the SEC asked U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan to dismiss its…
Patrick J. Smith, co-chair of the white-collar practice at DLA Piper,told The Wall Street Journal that prosecutors “took insider-trading law and applied it to garden-variety research techniques—and criminalized behavior the trading community had long considered to be lawful.” The message sent by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was…
