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t: Insider Trading After the Newman Decision To: ECURITIES LITIGATION ALERT December 18, 2014 Insider Trading After the Newman Decision U.S. v. Newman, --- F.3d ----, 2014 WL 9611278 (2d Cir., Dec. 10, 2014) For further information about this Alert, please contact: Douglas Hirsch Partner Jenni

y representing a serious set-back for the U.S. Attorney's Office, and, by logical extension, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("S.E.C."). The Newman decision is surprising in that it reverses the convictions while making very little, if any, new law. In short, the decision simply re-examines the

ll's investor relations department tipped information regarding Dell's consolidated earnings numbers to Sandy Goyal, an analyst at Neuberger Berman. Goyal then allegedly gave the information to Diamondback analyst Jesse Tortora. Tortora then relayed the information to his boss, Newman, as well as to o

hose who want more background on the formation of power laws, log-normal laws and related processes, there are three very good background papers by Newman [Newman 2005], Mitzenmacher [Mitzenmacher 2004] and Simkin & Roychowdhury [Simkin & Roychowdhury 2006]. The papers by Newman and Mitzenmacher give

management position) that pioneered the "#1 or #2" criterion as a strategic assessment for the composition of its portfolio of business units... ...Goyal, Lehn, and Rack (1993) also analyze investment policies in the defense industry. They report evidence that defense contractors began transferring re

fact that many power law distributions have values between two and three even though they arise from substantially different underlying models (see Newman table 1 for example [Newman 2005]). Indeed Dewar points out that many very chaotic systems; systems close to 'self organised criticality' such as e

dia T, Sarkar A, Subrahmanyam A, 2005. An empirical analysis of stock and bond market liquidity. Review of Financial Studies 18, 85-129. Chordia T, Goyal A, Sadka G, Sadka R, Shivakumar L, 2009. Liquidity and the Post-Earnings- Announcement-Drift. Financial Analysts Journal, 65.4, 18.32. Clementi F, G