Regulation

The panel ruled in favor of Mesirow, but panel chairman Richard Belmonte wrote a one-sentence dissenting opinion, in which he said the award “is grossly contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence and the applicable Illinois law.”

Elena Kagan urged the high court to reject an endorsement of the Gartenberg standard.

Vanguard Chairman Emeritus Jack Brennan will represent mutual funds on joint committee.

While Senate leaders said they would like to complete a vote on regulatory reform legislation this week, that goal is looking increasingly unrealistic.

Recent revelations such as those involving Goldman Sachs demonstrate that when it comes to investing, many commercial banks, pension funds, endowments and other institutions are not sophisticated.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have created a joint panel to study last Thursday's mysterious "flash crash," as well as other emerging regulatory issues.

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the hedge fund division of Ivy Asset Management, a unit of Bank of New York Mellon Corp., and two of its executives alleging they “deliberately” mislead clients about investments tied to Bernard L. Madoff.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan filed a briefing with the high court last year asking it not to accept an appellate decision affirming the Gartenberg standard in the Jones vs. Harris Associates case.

A FINRA panel granted Stifel more than $900,000 in attorney’s fees and denied all of Wachovia’s claims in a bitterly disputed raiding case.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will take another stab at imposing checks on securitization. The agency is expected to issue another proposal that would restrict its safe harbor for securitized assets, five months after its first attempt, during which the Securities and Exchange Commission weighed in with a plan of its own.