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Jury Verdicts Insider Trading Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

UPDATE: Shadow Trading Court to Weigh Competing Post-Trial Motions

On May 29, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a motion for final judgment, seeking to impose civil penalties in its first enforcement action brought on the theory of “shadow trading.”...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

New Insider Trading Precedent: Time To Update Insider Trading Policy

On April 5, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) obtained a verdict after an eight-day civil jury trial in SEC v. Matthew Panuwat (“SEC v. Panuwat”), in which the SEC alleged shadow insider trading, in...more

BakerHostetler

The SEC Secures Major Trial Victory in Its First ‘Shadow Trading’ Insider Trading Enforcement Action – Securities and Exchange...

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On Friday, April 5, a California federal jury found a former Medivation executive liable for insider trading under the novel liability theory of “shadow trading,” following an eight-day trial and less than three hours of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The SEC Wins ‘Shadow Insider Trading’ Trial

On Friday, April 5, 2024, a San Francisco jury found the defendant liable in SEC v. Panuwat, the closely watched litigated enforcement action brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to so-called...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

SEC Wins Insider-Trading Suit Alleging “Shadow Trading”

A federal jury in California agreed with the SEC that a corporate official engaged in insider trading when he purchased securities of a company based on material nonpublic information (“MNPI”) about a different company. The...more

BCLP

First “Insider Trading” Case Goes From Bad to Worse for CFTC

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On January 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a jury’s verdict in a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) enforcement action against EOX Holdings, L.L.C. (“EOX”) and its employee, Andrew...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - September 2019

This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between May and August 2019....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Wins Jury Verdict in Insider Trading Case

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The SEC prevailed at trial, winning a jury verdict is an unusual insider trading case against a former Capital One Financial Corporation employee. SEC v. Huang, Civil Action No. 15-cv-269 (E.D. Pa. Filed Jan. 22, 2015)....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

This Week In Securities Litigation

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The Commission responded to critics of its administrative proceedings this week, proposing changes to the Rules of Practice which govern them. If adopted the new rules would modify the time period within which the actions...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The SEC, An Idea, Insider Trading And The Wyly Case

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The SEC got a much needed courtroom win with a jury verdict in the Wyly case. The insider trading claim, however, was not submitted to the jury because any penalty was time barred. That claim, which was little more than the...more

Allen Matkins

The Crime That Knows No Definition

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As was widely reported yesterday, a jury failed to find Mark Cuban liable for insider trading. On the courthouse steps after the verdict, I think that Mr. Cuban made some very insightful and important comments...more

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