The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of over $2.5 million to joint whistleblowers whose tip based largely on highly probative independent analysis of a public company’s filings led to several successful enforcement actions.… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & […]
Author: Mark J. Astarita
The Dow Jones Index Changes
The Dow welcomed three new components: Honeywell (HON), Salesforce (CRM) and Amgen (AMGN), and removed ExxonMobil (XOM), Pfizer (PFE) and Raytheon (RTN). Keep in mind that the DOW is a price weighted index, and affected by share price, not the size of the company. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/investing/dow-apple-tesla-stock-market-today/index.html from SECLaw.com
SEC Adds 23 Unregistered Soliciting Entities to its PAUSE List
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has updated its Public Alert: Unregistered Soliciting Entities (PAUSE) list, adding 23 entities that are soliciting primarily non-U.S. investors using misleading information. The list also includes eight impersonators of genuine firms and seven bogus regulators. What is the PAUSE list? The PAUSE list is […]
SEC Awards Over $1.25 Million to Whistleblower
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of over $1.25 million to a whistleblower whose significant information prompted the agency to initiate a cause examination and bring an enforcement action that resulted in the return of… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah […]
SEC Charges Ponzi Scheme Targeting African Immigrants
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two Maryland companies and their principals for a scheme that allegedly defrauded approximately 1,200 investors, many of them African immigrants, of more than $27 million. According to the SEC’s… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & […]
SEC Charges Herbalife With FCPA Violations
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. has agreed to pay more than $67 million to settle charges that it violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah […]
Proposed Change to Accredited Investor Definition
The definition of an accredited investor has always been based on income and net worth. Over the decades that definition has become outdated and excludes individual who have the financial ability and acumen to make informed investment decisions. All of that is about to change. On August 26 the SEC […]
SEC Charges BorgWarner for Materially Misstating its Financial Statements
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against BorgWarner Inc., a motor vehicle parts manufacturer headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, for materially misstating its financial statements by failing to account for… Read the Full Press Release Have a securities law question? Call Sallah Astarita & Cox at 212-509-6544. […]
Expungement Rules Changing
SECLaw Tops The List of Securities Law Blogs
We did it again! Feedspot just published its list of the top 15 Securities Law Blogs, and we are #1. It’s not easy keeping pace with the ever changing laws of the financial markets, but we have been managing to do so for over 25 years. https://blog.feedspot.com/securities_law_blogs/ Visit us at […]