Liftik, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan said, has "extensive experience as a securities litigator, having worked on major securities regulatory crises, including market timing and late trading, stock
options backdating and the financial crisis.
The case is one of the last open prosecutions arising from government or internal investigations of stock
options backdating at over 200 companies, including Comverse, which was acquired in 2013 by former unit Verint Systems Inc.
Thomsen began her career with Davis Polk and later returned after 14 years of public service at the SEC, where she led the Enron investigation, the auction rate securities settlements, the stock
options backdating cases and the expansion of the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
10) Regarding stopping
options backdating however, we find that
Options backdating involves falsifying incentive option grant dates in order to increase the value of the options to executives.
And let's not forget the
options backdating scandals that grew as a direct result from do-gooder attempts to limit CEO pay.
When the SEC and the Internal Revenue Service were investigating stock
options backdating, the company that did not conduct an internal investigation was an anomaly.
Yet another stock
options backdating case blew up Dec.
Jarrell, "The Impact of the
Options Backdating Scandal on Shareholders," Journal of Accounting and Economics (March 2009), pp.
Options backdating was behind much of the controversy.
Jesse Fried of the University of California at Berkeley offers two new, practical approaches companies can adopt to help prevent insider trading and
options backdating litigation.
LexisNexis unit Mealey's (New York) has released "Mealey's Litigation Update: Stock Option Backdating," an executive summary that includes a collection of 57 case summaries and litigation updates reporting on complaints, motions, briefs, other pleadings, settlements and rulings involving stock
options backdating litigation.
