Product Description

Bringing transparency to a sometimes opaque subject, Alan R. Palmiter uses straightforward introductions and the proven-effective Examples & Explanations pedagogy to provide a clear and complete overview of federal securities regulation topics.

Now in its Fourth Edition, this trusted Examples & Explanations title supplies:
coverage of the key concepts of securities regulation, including:
public offerings
exemptions from registration
liability in securities offerings
materiality
securities fraud, insider trading, SEC enforcement, and cross-border regulation
the proven-effective Examples & Explanations pedagogy that combines straightforward introductions with well-written examples and explanations that apply concepts, reinforce learning, and test understanding of material covered
a building-block organization that explains basic concepts first (such as securities markets, federal/state regulation, disclosure philosophy), then explores these concepts in greater detail
examples drawn from newsworthy events, such as:
public offerings by Google and Microsoft
the roles of lawyers and accountants in Enron
insider trading by Martha Stewart fraud litigation involving Parmalat coverage that traces the topics in most of the leading casebooks
Updated throughout and with many new examples, the Fourth Edition features:
recent Supreme Court rulings:
Tellabs v. Makor Issues & Rights
Merrill Lynch v. Dabit
Dura Pharm. v. Broudo
updated new SEC rules, including the public offering rules
additional charts and diagrams
Edition after edition, Alan R. Palmiter is the authority your students can rely on to present a clear and current picture of the entire Securities Regulation landscape.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53806 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 620 pages

Customer Reviews

Absolute Must Have
this is quite possibly the hardest course in law school so take it at your own risk...and if you do, GET THIS BOOK! great charts that break down some of the tougher rules (e.g. gun-jumping) and good explanations of a lot of the cases and ideas...

Great book for finals prep.
The Examples and Explanations series is, in my opinion, a little less helpful than the Siegel's series as the problems in this book are all pretty short and not quite like the long issue-spotters one ordinarily gets on final exams in law school. The upside of these books, however, is that they have summaries of the concepts you should know as well as problems with explanations for every topic. This means that if you don't quite understand one of the concepts you've been taught (Regulation D, for example), you can use this book to supplement your lecture notes. I found the book very helpful in studying for my Securities Regulation exam.

It's worth noting that every law school class will cover different topics in different ways, so this book may not cover some of the topics in as much detail as your professor did. I've found that this is always the case with commercial supplements; you just have to understand that your class won't always be exactly like the book, and learn not to panic when you can't answer a question on a subject your prof barely touched on. At the same time, every Securities Regulation class should cover the basics (materiality, gun-jumping, exemptions from registration, liability under the Securities Acts, Rule 10b-5, insider trading, periodic reporting, financial reporting, and SEC oversight), all of which were covered in this book.

Excellent
This is one of the best E&E supplements I've used--it's up there with Glannon's Civ Pro book. Very clear and straightforward. Despite its relative brevity I found it more useful than the huge Gilbert edition for this class (and much more useful than the casebook).