Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month, we examine:
•The Supreme Court’s Jarkesy decision and its impact on the...more
7/16/2024
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Administrative Proceedings ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Glass Lewis ,
Insider Trading ,
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) ,
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ,
Proxy Advisory Firms ,
Rule 10b-5 ,
SCOTUS ,
SEC v Jarkesy ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Securities Tokens ,
Seventh Amendment
On June 21, 2024, a jury in California federal court found a former chief executive officer of a publicly traded healthcare company guilty of insider trading in United States v. Peizer, the first criminal insider-trading case...more
Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month, we examine:
•The SEC’s first “Shadow Trading” trial;
•SCOTUS’s...more
5/21/2024
/ Books & Records ,
Breach of Duty ,
Climate Change ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Data Privacy ,
Insider Trading ,
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ,
Macquarie Infrastructure Corp v Moab Partners LP ,
Marketing ,
Misappropriation ,
Non-Public Information ,
Omissions ,
Regulation S-K ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rule 10b-5 ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Stays
On March 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought insider trading charges against Terren S. Peizer, the founder, Executive Chairman, and Chairman of the Board of...more
On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted amendments to the affirmative defense in Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), and adopted...more
In a January 22, 2016 decision, a federal court in New York dismissed federal securities law claims against Lions Gate Entertainment and several of its senior executives based on the company’s decision not to disclose that it...more