Stolen BigLaw Deal Data Allegedly Fueled Multimillion Insider Trading Scheme

TL;DR
Federal prosecutors unveiled indictments alleging a wide-scale insider-trading scheme that used nonpublic mergers-and-acquisitions information stolen from major law firms to net tens of millions in profits, tying deals at companies like Actelion, Amazon, Anadarko, eBay, iRobot, Johnson & Johnson, Occidental Petroleum and Permira to traders.
- Feds Say Stolen BigLaw Deal Info Aided Huge Trading Scheme Law360
- Lawyers, traders among 30 charged by US in global insider trading case Reuters
- 30 accused of decade-long insider trading scheme Axios
- Several from South Florida among 30 charged in massive insider trading scheme WPLG Local 10
- How ‘Premier’ Law Firms Became a Decade-Long Spy Ring Newsweek
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