WORD OF THE DAY® for Hedge Funds – 10b5-1 Plan
In April, we issued an alert discussing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and Department of Justice’s ("DOJ") expansion of insider trading to 10b5-1 plans. On June 21, 2024, a federal jury in California...more
As discussed in our March 3, 2023 post, the DOJ and SEC brought an insider trading case against the founder and former CEO and Executive Chairman of Ontrak, Inc. based upon the former executive failing the “clean hands”...more
On June 21, 2024, a Los Angeles federal jury convicted former Ontrak, Inc. CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors Terren S. Peizer of insider trading in a first-of-its-kind prosecution based exclusively on the use of Rule...more