Sanofi Charged With FCPA Violations
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Paris-based pharmaceutical company Sanofi has agreed to pay more than $25 million to resolve charges that…
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The Going Public Lawyer’s Guidebook – Securities Lawyer 101
The Going Public Lawyers Guidebook By Hamilton & Associates Securities Law Group, P.A. Caution: Use Only as Directed Going Public transactions can…
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SEC Charges Florida Cash Advance Company, Former CEO Carl Ruderman With Defrauding Retail Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against 1 Global Capital LLC and its former chief executive officer for allegedly defrauding at least…
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SEC Charges NFL Player Mychal Kendricks and Former Investment Banker With Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a professional football player and a former investment banker with insider trading in advance of corporate…
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Press Release SEC Charges Moody’s Investors Service Inc. With Internal Controls Failures and Ratings Symbols Deficiencies
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Moody’s Investors Service Inc., one of the nation’s largest credit ratings agencies, has agreed to…
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Legg Mason Charged With Violating the FCPA
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Legg Mason Inc. will pay over $34 million to resolve an SEC charge that the company…
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What is FINRA Rule 6490? Going Public Lawyers
Complying with Rule 6490’s requirements may entail an unanticipated legal and compliance cost for issuers and their securities attorneys, who may be unfamiliar with FINRA’s…
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Transamerica Entities to Pay $97 Million to Investors Relating to Errors in Quantitative Investment Models
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against four Transamerica entities for misconduct involving faulty investment models and ordered the entities to…
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Fee Rate Advisory #1 for Fiscal Year 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that in fiscal year 2019 the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their…
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SEC Bars David T. Laurance Perpetrator of Initial Coin Offering Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained permanent officer-and-director and penny stock bars against the founder of a company who perpetrated a fraudulent…
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SEC Charges Oil Company CEO John Schiller With Hiding His Personal Loans
On July 16, 2018 The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the former CEO of Energy XXI Ltd. John Schiller with hiding more…
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SEC Updates List of Firms Using Inaccurate Information to Solicit Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Aug. 6, 2018 that it has updated its list of unregistered firms that use misleading information…
Read MoreDeutsche Bank to Pay Nearly $75 Million for Improper Handling of ADRs
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on July 20, 2018 that two U.S.-based subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG will pay nearly $75 million to settle…
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SEC Charges Unregistered Brokers Who Sold Woodbridge Securities to Main Street Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged five individuals and four companies for unlawfully selling securities of Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC…
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SEC Charges Mizuho Securities for Failure to Safeguard Customer Information
On July 23, 2018 The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Mizuho Securities USA LLC for its failure to safeguard information pertaining to…
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Citigroup to Pay More Than $10 Million for Books and Records Violations and Inadequate Controls
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Citigroup has agreed to pay $10.5 million in penalties to settle two enforcement actions involving…
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The Distinction Between Equity Crowdfunding and Rule 506(c) When Raising Capital
The JOBS Act’s new rules permitting general solicitation and advertising in Rule 506 private placements became effective on September 23, and there…
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What is a Private Placement Memorandum – PPM? Going Public Lawyers
A private placement memorandum sometimes called a PPM is used by private companies in going public transactions and by existing public companies…
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SEC Adopts Amendments to Simplify and Update Disclosure Requirements
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has voted to adopt amendments to certain disclosure requirements that have become duplicative, overlapping, or…
Read MoreSEC Charges Ameriprise Financial Services for Failing to Safeguard Client Assets
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. will pay $4.5 million to settle charges that it failed to…
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Rule 506 Roadmap l Ask Securities Lawyer 101
Private placement offerings under Rule 506 of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) are a cost…
Read MoreSEC Adopts Rule Amendments to Improve Municipal Securities Disclosure
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to enhance transparency in the municipal securities market. The adopted amendments to Rule 15c2-12 of…
Read MoreMerrill Lynch Settles SEC Charges of Undisclosed Conflict in Advisory Decision
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith has agreed to pay approximately $8.9 million to settle charges…
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SEC Charges Technology Fund Adviser Michael B. Rothenberg, Founder in Fraudulent Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the founder of San Francisco-based venture capital funds and his investment advisory firm with overcharging investors…
Read MoreHow to Spot a Penny Stock Scam
Have you ever played a penny stock? Or invested in one you believed or hoped was real, perhaps even the Next Big…
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SEC Chairman Clayton Announces Additional Investor Roundtable in Baltimore for Main Street Investors to ‘Tell Us’ About Their Investor Experience
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton announced that an additional investor roundtable to discuss the Commission’s recently proposed rules regarding the…
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SEC Charges Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. Executives With Inflating Operating Metrics
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges with two former top officers of Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. for overstating the…
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Barry Miller, Associate Director in Division of Investment Management, to Leave SEC After More Than 40 Years of Public Service
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Barry D. Miller, Associate Director of Disclosure Review and Accounting in the Division of Investment…
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SEC Files Charges Gannon Giguiere in Busted Microcap Schemes
On July 13, 2018 The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a stock promoter and four others involved in an alleged series of…
Read MoreFormer CEO Kevin Modany and CFO Daniel Fitzpatrick of ITT Barred and Ordered to Pay Penalties
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on July 6, 2018 settlements with two former senior executives of ITT Educational Services Inc., which the SEC…
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