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Former CEO Sentenced in Historic Insider Trading Case Under Rule 10b5-1

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On June 23, 2025, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer of the Central District of California sentenced a former Chairman and CEO of a behavioral healthcare company to 42 months in federal prison. This conviction represents the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Takeaways for In-House Counsel from DOJ’s First Insider Trading Trial Involving a Rule 10b5-1 Plan

On June 21, 2024, a jury in California federal court found a former chief executive officer of a publicly traded healthcare company guilty of insider trading in United States v. Peizer, the first criminal insider-trading case...more

Cozen O'Connor

SEC Finds 10b5-1 Trading Plan was Misused, Charges Tech Company Executives with Insider Trading

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A recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action charged two executives with insider trading violations despite the fact that the executives had adopted a purported 10b5-1 trading plan....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 5 SEC Enforcement Developments for January 2022

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important and interesting SEC enforcement developments from the past month, with links to primary...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Commissioners Peirce and Roisman criticize “unduly broad view” of “internal accounting controls” in Andeavor

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In October, the SEC settled charges against Andeavor, an energy company formerly traded on the NYSE and now wholly owned by Marathon Petroleum, in connection with stock repurchases authorized by its board in 2015 and 2016. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SEC Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance; Makes Clear that Cybersecurity Disclosures Are Part of Existing SEC Requirements - Guidance...

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On Feb. 21, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued interpretive guidance on its expectations for corporate disclosures on cybersecurity risks. The guidance delineates where it believes existing SEC rules...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC Charges Directors, Officers and Major Investors for Failing to Update Disclosures Prior to Announcements of Going Private...

On March 13, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced settlement proceedings against officers, directors, and major shareholders of several companies that were recently taken private for failing to update...more

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