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Holland & Knight LLP

Shady Days: SEC Secures Another Insider Trading Stat on Shadow Trading Theory

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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on May 30, 2024, approved a settled final judgment against technology company Arista Networks' former chairman and CEO, Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim based on...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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Shadow Trading Enforcement Lessons For Private Funds

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has a long history of adopting novel theories in litigation to convince the courts to expand the scope of the federal insider trading laws. The SEC's latest effort comes in an...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New “Shadow Insider Trading” SEC Enforcement Action -- Four Lessons for Private Fund Managers

Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in federal court in California premised on the novel legal theory that the insider trading laws apply where an insider uses confidential information...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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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Stay Vigilant: The Government Shutdown Didn't Shut Down Insider Trading Enforcement

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Shutting down the United States federal government in late 2018 and early 2019 created the unfortunate perception that government watchdogs might not be able to catch up with illegal behavior, like insider trading. The...more

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