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The Seventh Circuit Missed The Bullseye In Walleye, Peter Rosenberg
The Seventh Circuit Missed The Bullseye In Walleye, Peter Rosenberg
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
The structure of agency relationships in a transaction should have no bearing on the outcome when the only difference between two hypothetical transactions is solely the facial structure. In the same vein, investor protection is at the forefront of the securities laws; commonly used limiting language for market announcements should not be enough to absolve a company from fraudulent disclosures, e.g., “preliminary results.”
In Walleye Trading LLC v. AbbVie, Inc., a Seventh Circuit decision, the Court did the opposite and found that, based on pleadings at the motion to dismiss stage, an issuer is not liable for the misstatements …