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SEC Enforcement Actions Reflect Expanding Focus on Advisers’ Policies and Procedures to Prevent Misuse of Material Nonpublic...

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently brought settled enforcement actions against two registered investment advisers for failing to establish, maintain, and enforce written policies and procedures reasonably...more

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Social Media Posts Result in SEC Fines for Regulation FD Violations

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On September 26, 2024, the SEC announced that it had settled charges with DraftKings Inc. for selective disclosure of material non-public information on the CEO’s personal X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn accounts in...more

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SEC Prevails in Novel "Shadow Trading" Insider Trading Trial

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The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") won at trial in its first "shadow trading" case, holding a corporate official liable for insider trading for using nonpublic information about his company's acquisition to trade...more

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

The SEC Wins First Insider Trading Case Based on So-Called “Shadow Trading” Theory

On April 5, 2024, a federal jury in SEC v. Panuwat (N.D. Cal.) agreed with the SEC that a corporate official engaged in insider trading when he purchased securities of a company based on material nonpublic information...more

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SEC Eyes Work-From-Home Pitfalls in Crackdown on Insider Trading and Off-Channel Communications

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The new flexible work environment created in the post-pandemic years poses unique challenges for companies and individuals who work outside a traditional office. The SEC knows this and is actively enforcing the securities...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: March 1, 2024

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more

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Insider Trading Enforcement in 2022

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Each year, the Department of Justice ("DOJ"), the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and in recent years, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") dedicate substantial resources to investigating and...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

AT&T and SEC Settle Regulation FD Enforcement Action After SDNY Denies Summary Judgment to Either Side

On Dec. 5, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that AT&T has agreed to a $6.25 million penalty, resolving charges brought against it under the securities rule known as Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation...more

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SEC Enforcement Against Cheetah Mobile Execs Reflects Heightened Scrutiny of 10b5-1 Plans

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​​​​​​​On September 21, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged the CEO, Sheng Fu, and former president, Ming Xu, of Chinese-based technology company Cheetah Mobile Inc. (“Cheetah Mobile” or the...more

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Flawed 10b5-1 plan leads to insider trading finding against executives

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A recent SEC order found that two executives of Cheetah Mobile Inc. engaged in illegal insider trading when selling shares under a purported 10b5-1 trading plan. The SEC found that they established the plan after learning of...more

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SEC Focuses on Insider Trading and Leverages Market Analytics in Recent Slew of Enforcement Cases

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​​​​​​​On July 25, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced insider trading charges against ten individual defendants across four separate cases (Bhardwaj, Goel, Markin, and Buyer), filed in the...more

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SEC and DOJ Bring Parallel Crypto Insider Trading Cases; SEC Alleges Nine Coinbase-Listed Tokens Are Securities

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Significant parallel actions commenced this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) bring crypto fraud enforcement into the spotlight, with the SEC alleging that multiple...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: May 1, 2022

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. ...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC Shadow Trading Case Breaks Ground – But There Remains a Trail to Blaze

A California Court recently allowed the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or “Commission”) to proceed with its first insider trading prosecution based on a theory of “shadow trading.” On January 14, 2022, Judge...more

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California District Court Upholds SEC’s Novel “Shadow Trading” Theory

The SEC prevailed on a motion to dismiss a closely watched lawsuit alleging that a company employee had engaged in insider trading based on news about a not-yet-public corporate acquisition when he purchased securities of a...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

SEC Defeats Motion to Dismiss Insider-Trading Complaint Alleging Novel “Shadow Trading” Theory

The SEC prevailed on a motion to dismiss a closely watched lawsuit alleging that the defendant had engaged in insider trading based on news about a not-yet-public corporate acquisition when he purchased securities of a...more

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SEC Insider Trading Enforcement Highlights from 2021

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC or Commission) actions in 2021 demonstrate that insider trading remains a key enforcement priority. While the absolute number of insider trading enforcement actions brought by the...more

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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

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Insider Trading: Leveraging Inside Information

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Insider trading is generally viewed through one of two lenses. The first is the classic model. There a company insider learns information which constitutes material non-public information about his or her employer and either...more

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SEC Files First Reg FD Action In Years

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Regulation Fair Disclosure was passed in 2002 to fill what many saw as a regulatory gap – the selective disclosure of material non-public information by issuers.  Essentially the Regulation – now known as Reg FD – requires a...more

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SEC Fines Life Sciences Company for Regulation FD Violations

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For the first time in six years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an enforcement action against a company solely for Regulation FD violations. On Aug. 20, the SEC announced that it charged life sciences...more

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