Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari is an “AV” rated law firm with a national practice representing retail and institutional investors as well as municipalities and public companies. Attorneys for the firm regularly appear before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) which was created in 2007 through the consolidation of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) enforcement and arbitration divisions, as well as in numerous state and federal courts to resolve financial disputes between customers, banks, brokerage firms and other financial institutions.
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Recent News
- Schwab loses lawsuit to halt FINRA action
- A federal court judge threw out a lawsuit by Charles Schwab Corp that had sought to stop its regulator from disciplining the brokerage for trying to take away customers’ rights to sue it in class actions. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte of the ...
Read Article - Wall Street's Legal Magic Ends an American Right
- American business entered its Teflon era on a spring day 25 years ago. Lawyer Madelaine Eppenstein had taken the morning off from work for a parent-teacher event at her 5-year-old's elementary school on June 8, 1987, when she was summoned to the principal's ...
Read Article - A Jury of Peers for Disputes With Your Broker?
- The scenario is not unlike those Olympic lowlights of yore: A Soviet gymnast flubs the floor exercise; a moment later, the Soviet judge scores the routine a perfect 10. Such has been the experience for many investors as they’ve sought compensation ...
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Current Investigations
- Reverse Convertibles
- Reverse convertibles are debt obligations of the issuer that are tied to the performance of an unrelated security or basket of securities. Although they are sometimes described as debt instruments, they are more complex than traditional bonds and involve elements of options trading. Reverse convertibles expose investors to heightened risks not associated with bonds.
Read Article - Citigroup's Falcon, ASTA and MAT Hedge Funds
- The decline of Citigroup's fixed income hedge funds has led to investor claims and an investigation of Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). We are investigating the decline of fixed income portfolios that Citibank sold. The Falcon, ASTA and MAT funds employed leverage to purchase municipal bonds.
Read Article - Municipal Arbitrage Losses in 1861 Capital Management
- 1861 Capital Discovery Domestic Fund, LP was marketed and sold by UBS and other broker dealers as a safe, secure, and low-risk municipal bond portfolio complement. In truth, however, 1861 was a fund, better described as a leveraged municipal arbitrage fund.
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