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Jenner & Block

Client Alert: DOJ and SEC Used Data Analytics to Target Insider Trading with 10b5-1 Plans

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The DOJ and SEC have made no secret of their interest in combatting potential insider trading by high-level executives misusing Rule 10b5-1 plans. Those plans provide a potential safe harbor for executives trading their...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

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

Burr & Forman

Robinhood to Settle Options-Related Investigations?

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In an SEC filing Friday, February 26, Robinhood Financial and Robinhood Securities disclosed they are negotiating with FINRA, the SEC, and state regulators, attempting to settle investigations into options-trading and outages...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Clearing Broker Continues to Take Aim at SEC’s Ability to Enforce the BSA

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First Post in a Two-Part Series - On December 11, Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York granted, in part, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) motion for summary judgement in its action against...more

Carlton Fields

Federal Court Holds Neither Janus, Nor Statute of Limitations Shields Alleged “Pump-And-Dump” Fraudsters From Civil Liability in...

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In another example of the limits to which defendants may successfully rely on the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, 131 S. Ct. 2296 (2011), earlier this summer, District Judge...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

SEC Sanctions Two Exchanges for Failing to Accurately Describe Order Types and Making Preferential Disclosure to High Frequency...

On January 12, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had obtained a $14 million settlement against two exchanges formerly owned by Direct Edge Holdings, EDGA and EDGX (the “Respondent Exchanges”) for...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Brings Action Against Exchanges Centered on Order Types

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There was a time when orders for securities were straight forward – buy, sell, limit and perhaps a few variations. Now, however, there is a multiplicity of order types as Michael Lewis points out in his book “Flash Boys.” ...more

Dechert LLP

Financial Services Quarterly Report - Fourth Quarter 2013: Political Intelligence Firms – Insider Trading and Enforcement Shifts...

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Insider trading remains a top priority for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Justice (DoJ). In fiscal year 2012, the SEC filed 58 enforcement actions against 131 individuals and entities and the...more

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