The GameStop Short Squeeze – Potential Regulatory and Litigation Fall Out and Considerations

Over this past week, the stock market has experienced a turbulent and acutely volatile series of events related to the trading of a small group of public companies’ shares. Perhaps most (in)famously, the stock price of GameStop surged from a low of less than $20 in early January to a high of nearly $500 on January 28th —an increase of well over 1,000%.