Securities Law

SEC Charges Entities Operating Crypto Asset Trading Platform Mango Markets for Unregistered Offers and Sales of the Platform’s “MNGO” Governance Tokens

September 27, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled charges against Mango DAO and Blockworks Foundation for engaging in the unregistered offer and sale of crypto assets called “MNGO” tokens. The SEC also settled charges against Blockworks… Full report at: Read More

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SEC Charges U.K. Citizen in Hacking and Trading Scheme Involving Five U.S. Public Companies

September 27, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against U.K. citizen Robert B. Westbrook for hacking into the computer systems of five U.S. public companies to obtain material nonpublic information about their corporate earnings and using… Full report at: Read More

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SEC Charges Cassava Sciences, Two Former Executives for Misleading Claims About Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial

September 26, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced Cassava Sciences, Inc., its founder and former CEO, Remi Barbier, and its former Senior Vice President of Neuroscience, Dr. Lindsay Burns, will pay more than $40 million to settle charges related to… Full report at: Read More

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SEC Charges Advisory Firm GQG Partners With Violating Whistleblower Protection Rule

September 26, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Florida-based GQG Partners LLC, a registered investment adviser, for entering into agreements with candidates for employment and a former employee that made it more difficult… Full report at: Read More

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SEC Levies More Than $3.8 Million in Penalties in Sweep of Late Beneficial Ownership and Insider Transaction Reports

September 25, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against 23 entities and individuals for failures to timely report information about their holdings and transactions in public company stock. Two public companies were also charged for… Full report at: Read More

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SEC Charges Merrill Lynch and Harvest Volatility Management for Ignoring Client Instructions

September 25, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Harvest Volatility Management LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. for exceeding clients’ designated investment limits over a two-year period beginning in March 2016… Full report at: Read More

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SEC Charges Former CEO of Tech Startup SKAEL with $30 Million Fraud

September 24, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against Baba Nadimpalli, the co-founder and former CEO of SKAEL Inc., a San Francisco-based private technology company that developed business automation software. According to the SEC… Full report at: Read More

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SEC Charges Crypto Companies TrustToken and TrueCoin With Defrauding Investors Regarding Stablecoin Investment Program

September 24, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against TrueCoin LLC and TrustToken Inc. for their fraudulent and unregistered sales of investment contracts involving TrueUSD (TUSD), a purported stablecoin. According to the SEC’s… Full report at: Read More

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Eleven Firms to Pay More Than $88 Million Combined to Settle SEC’s Charges for Widespread Recordkeeping Failures

September 24, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against 12 firms, comprising broker-dealers, investment advisers, and one dually-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser, for widespread and longstanding failures by the firms and… Full report at: Read More

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Advisory Firm Atom Investors, Charged with Recordkeeping Violations, Avoids Civil Penalty Because of Self-Reporting, Substantial Cooperation, and Prompt Remediation

September 23, 2024
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Texas-based registered investment adviser Atom Investors LP for its failure to maintain and preserve off-channel communications in violation of the recordkeeping provisions of the… Full report at: Read More

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