Insider Trading, Enforcement Actions, Criminal Investigations

Small Gains Yield Big Pain: How a $2,400 Profit Triggered an SEC, FBI, and FINRA Cavalry

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 7/16/2025

On July 11, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) announced that it had settled an enforcement action against two individuals who were alleged to have engaged in insider trading. The SEC’s...more

SEC Approach In Wahi Presents New Challenges For Crypto

Proskauer Rose LLP on 3/15/2023

Government scrutiny of the crypto market has been sharply increasing in recent months on the criminal and civil enforcement fronts. In parallel proceedings that will be seen in other digital asset contexts — as in the...more

A Crypto Quagmire: Civil and Criminal Charges Filed against a Coinbase Manager for Insider Trading of Securities

Freeman Law on 8/9/2022

Recently the SEC filed suit for insider trading of securities against a high-level employee at the popular crypto exchange, Coinbase. The SEC filed its civil suit in Seattle on July 22, 2022, against and his co-conspirators....more

Concerning Questions Raised by SEC Action Against Former Coinbase Employee

Polsinelli on 8/5/2022

On July 21, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) each alleged insider trading violations against a former Coinbase employee, his brother, and another alleged acquaintance...more

CFTC Chairman Giancarlo Reaffirms Commitment to Aggressive Enforcement Efforts

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/12/2018

On October 2, 2018, in a speech to the Economic Club of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo forcefully emphasized the agency’s commitment to an active...more

D.C. Circuit Repulses Assault on the SEC’s Administrative Citadel

Burr & Forman on 10/5/2015

The citadel of the SEC’s administrative forum has been under assault from several vectors over the past year or so, as a chorus of dissenting Respondents have mounted increasing challenges to its constitutional legitimacy, as...more