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Merrill Lynch & Co., formally Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, was a publicly-traded American investment bank that existed independently from 1914 until January 2009 before being acquired by Bank of America and rolled into BofA Securities . The firm engaged in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities and was headquartered ...
15 U.S.C. § 78bb (f) (1) (A) (section 101 (b) of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit, 547 U.S. 71 (2006), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the extent to which state law securities fraud class action claims were preempted by the ...
Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities , the investment banking arm, both firms engage in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities.
Henry McKelvey Blodget (born 1966) is an American businessman, investor and journalist. He is notable for his former career as an equity research analyst who was senior Internet analyst for CIBC Oppenheimer and the head of the global Internet research team at Merrill Lynch during the dot-com era. [1] Blodget was charged with civil securities ...
One settlement involving the company in 2012 stipulated it reimburse shareholders $2.43 billion for concealing crucial information during its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co. at the height of the ...
Martin Act. The Martin Act (New York General Business Law article 23-A, sections 352–353) [1] is a New York anti-fraud law, widely considered to be the most severe blue sky law in the country. [2] Passed in 1921, it grants the Attorney General of New York expansive law enforcement powers to conduct investigations of securities fraud and bring ...
ImClone stock trading case. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney probe into trading in the shares of ImClone Systems resulted in a widely publicized criminal case, which resulted in prison terms for businesswoman and television personality Martha Stewart, ImClone CEO Samuel D. Waksal, and Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch ...
On September 3, 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the issuance of a complaint against New Jersey hedge fund company Canary Capital Partners LLC, charging that they had engaged in "late trading" in collusion with Bank of America 's Nations Funds. Bank of America is charged with permitting Canary to purchase mutual fund ...