That’s because the $234.6 million settlement Deloitte, EisnerAmper, and five other companies reached with investors of the now-defunct Oregon investment company Aequitas last July was approved in Oregon federal court on Dec. 16. According to Law360, the judge also approved nearly $58 million in attorneys fees and costs. Deloitte, EisnerAmper, law firm Sidley Austin, securities […]

Why go through a lengthy, expensive trial, not knowing whether you’ll win or lose, when you can pay a shit-ton of money to make it all go away? That’s what the seven defendants, including Deloitte and EisnerAmper, did to settle a class-action lawsuit filed three years ago by investors of Aequitas accusing the accounting firms, […]