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The SEC Wins ‘Shadow Insider Trading’ Trial

On Friday, April 5, 2024, a San Francisco jury found the defendant liable in SEC v. Panuwat, the closely watched litigated enforcement action brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to so-called...more

SEC Announces First Off-Channel Communications Enforcement Action Against a Standalone Private Fund Manager

On April 3, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its first enforcement action against a registered investment adviser (RIA) with no ties to a broker-dealer regarding so-called “off-channel”...more

Supreme Court Declines to Review 2nd Circuit Decision That Syndicated Term Loans Are Not Securities

On February 20, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by the trustee of the Millennium Lender Claim Trust challenging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s August 2023 decision, in which...more

Private Funds Remain a Top Priority for the SEC in 2022: A Review of Recent Cases and Their Implications for Private Fund Managers

Late last year, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler warned private fund managers that they should be prepared for increased regulatory scrutiny. Shortly thereafter, in February 2022, the SEC announced...more

The SEC is Kicking Off 2022 With a Renewed Focus on the Private Funds Industry: A Review of Recent Enforcement Actions and their...

Private funds should be prepared for increased oversight from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), following a landmark year of enforcement cases. In 2021, the Commission brought 159 enforcement actions against...more

District Court Endorses SEC’s “Shadow Insider Trading” Theory – An Analysis of the Court’s Decision and its Potential Implications...

As previously reported, in August 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in SEC v. Panuwat, initiating the first enforcement action seeking to proscribe as prohibited insider trading the practice...more

A Quant and MNPI Enforcement Action - Important but Not for the Reasons You Might Think

On September 23, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged a quantitative analyst for “a scheme to violate the federal securities laws by using material nonpublic information to secretly trade ahead of (i.e.,...more

Six Lessons for Private Fund Managers

In the last three weeks, the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed several complaints and resolved a number of open enforcement actions involving investment advisers. At first...more

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