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House Passes Bill to Limit Trading by Insiders around Form 8-K Filings

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Earlier this month, in a bipartisan vote of 384 to 7, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 8-K Trading Act of 2019. A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate and given the bipartisan support in the House, is...more

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The Perils of Well-Intentioned Deception: Insider Trading Case Highlights Challenges Facing Public Companies

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The Situation: Despite Equifax's use of a cover story to keep employees from learning it was the victim of a serious data breach, a then-employee allegedly figured it out and made illegal securities trades based on the...more

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Insider Trading Charges Brought Against CIO for Post-Breach Trading

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On March 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a chief information officer (CIO) for a US business division of Equifax with insider trading in advance of Equifax’s September 2017 disclosure of the...more

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Equifax Data Breach: Preliminary Lessons for the Adoption and Implementation of Insider Trading Policies

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Insider trading allegations have surfaced at Equifax, a credit rating agency that last week announced a data breach that could potentially affect 143 million consumers in the United States, nearly half of the country’s...more

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Quiet Period Best Practices

The insider trading policies of almost all public companies contain closely monitored “black out” periods that prohibit trades by designated classes of employees during certain periods in the company’s SEC reporting cycle....more

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