Founding partners Patrick J. Smith and Rodney Villazor, together with associate Sarah Zimmer, opened for business as Smith Villazor LLP.
Smith Villazor LLP Launches Firm
April 11, 2016
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Ex-Deutsche Bank Analyst to Pay $100,000 Over Ratings
February 17, 2016
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…
SEC drops Onyx insider trading lawsuit against Dubai men
September 16, 2015
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…
Founding partner Patrick J. Smith quoted in Wall Street Journal on landmark Newman insider trading decision
December 11, 2014
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…