Transfer agents can find themselves in a difficult position when it comes to removing restrictive legends on stock certificates. On the one hand, the Securities and Exchange Commission may take enforcement action against...more
Because the CFPB is still a young agency, having formed in 2011 pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank), the enforcement record of the Agency is somewhat limited, not by...more
Last week, the 11th Circuit held that the limitations period of 28 U.S.C. § 2462 bars disgorgement or declarative relief for acts having occurred five years before the SEC files an action. The Court drew a distinction...more
A three judge panel in the Eleventh Circuit issued a ruling last Thursday in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Barry Graham et al., Case No. 14-13562, holding—contrary to several other circuits—that the remedy of...more
AgFeed Industries, Inc.’s accounting irregularities culminated in a March 2014 enforcement action brought against AgFeed by the SEC. The enforcement action yielded an $18 million disgorgement penalty, referred to as the...more
In a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Government does not have an unlimited amount of time to bring civil penalty actions based on fraud. In...more