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Julia M. Ansanelli

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Julia Ansanelli earned her bachelor's degree from New York University and her J.D. from Touro Law Center, where she graduated as valedictorian of her division. During law school, she served as case note editor of the Touro Law Review and vice president of Touro's Latin American Law School Association. Julia also interned for the Honorable Magistrate Kathleen Tomlinson in the Eastern District of New York.

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U.S. Federal Regulators Turn Up the Heat on Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms

By Julia M. Ansanelli, Joshua M. Newville, Seetha Ramachandran and Samuel J. Waldon on Posted in Compliance, Enforcement, Regulation, SEC, Securities Law, White Collar
With new types of digital assets and related business on the rise, federal authorities have been busy investigating.  Recently, the SEC, FinCEN and the CFTC have imposed some notable settlements involving cryptocurrency trading platforms for allegedly operating without appropriate approvals from financial regulatory authorities.  This may be the start of the next wave of government … Continue Reading

Misuse of Private Fund Assets Leads to SEC Enforcement and Industry Bar for Fund Manager

By Julia M. Ansanelli, Joshua M. Newville and Samuel J. Waldon on Posted in Asset Management, Disputes, Private Equity Litigation, SEC, Securities Law
In a cautionary tale about the career-limiting risks of SEC sanctions, a private fund adviser and its owner were found to have misused over $1 million of fund assets, resulting in a bar from the investment industry as well as a civil penalty. Monsoon Capital, LLC (Monsoon) is an SEC-registered investment adviser founded and owned … Continue Reading

SEC Continues to Use Advanced Data Analytics to Investigate Insider Trading

By Joshua M. Newville and Julia M. Ansanelli on Posted in Regulation, SEC, Securities Law
The SEC has been active in pursuing several insider trading cases this year on both the large and the small-scale, some of which involved trades that yielded profits as small as $40,000-$60,000. Why does the enforcement division spend resources on these smaller cases? And how will the SEC continue to investigate new leads through data … Continue Reading
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