On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States granted petitions for writs of certiorari in two related criminal cases arising from the alleged bribery of Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and alleged bid-rigging in “Buffalo Billion” upstate revitalization projects. Shapiro Arato Bach represents Syracuse developers Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi in those cases … Read more
As described more fully here, on October 5, 2016, Alexandra Shapiro argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in Salman v. United States, No. 15-628, the first insider trading case that the Court has heard in nearly two decades. Ms. Shapiro’s argument has since received widespread news coverage. Below are some of the … Read more
On October 5, 2016, Alexandra Shapiro argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in Salman v. United States, No. 15-628, the first insider trading case that the Court has heard in nearly two decades. Our client, Bassam Salman, was convicted in the Northern District of California of trading on inside information that he … Read more
On October 4, 2015, Bloomberg BNA published a profile of partner Alexandra Shapiro on the eve of her first argument before the Supreme Court in Salman v. United States, the first insider trading case the Court has heard in 20 years. The article explains that her “securities law work has played a pivotal role in … Read more
On September 15, 2016, Shapiro Arato LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) in the Supreme Court of the United States in the long-standing “dancing baby” case. In that case, a video depicting a child dancing to a copyrighted song was removed from YouTube for alleged infringement. … Read more
On May 6, 2016, Shapiro Arato filed its opening brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Bassam Salman. Mr. Salman’s case is the first insider trading case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear in over two decades and raises the question of what “personal benefit” to a corporate insider is … Read more