Download or read book Corporate Liability for Insider Trading written by Juliette Overland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Liability for Insider Trading examines the reasons why there have been no successful criminal prosecutions, or successful contested civil proceedings, against corporations for insider trading, and analyses the various rationales for prohibiting insider trading. It reviews the insider trading regulatory regime and describes its key features, using both national and international examples. The book inspects a variety of criminal and civil models of corporate liability and considers the historical and theoretical basis on which corporations are subject to insider trading laws. The specific elements of the insider trading offence and the manner in which they are attributed to corporations are analysed in detail. Defences available to corporations such as Chinese Walls are explored, and the obligations that are imposed on businesses as a result of insider trading regulation – security trading policies and notifications, continuous disclosure obligations, and duties concerning conflicts of interest – are detailed and examined. The book concludes with reform proposals intended to remedy the many legal and commercial difficulties identified, in order that a new regulatory regime might be adopted to better serve regulators, businesses, investors, and the broader market. This volume addresses these corporate law topics and will be of interest to researchers, academics, financial institution compliance officers, investment bankers, corporate and comparative lawyers, and students and scholars in the fields of commercial law, corporate law, financial crime, company law, and white collar crime
Download or read book When Does Corporate Criminal Liability for Insider Trading Make Sense written by John P. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporations are subject to broad criminal liability for the insider trading of their employees. Critics have noted that this results in a harsh irony. “After all,” Professor Jonathan Macey argues, “it is generally the employer who is harmed by the insider trading.” In the same vein, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Harvey L. Pitt and Karen L. Shapiro point out that, “[f]ar from being responsible for their employees' violations of the law...most of the employers who have had the unfortunate experience of employing [insider traders] are in fact the only true victims, in an otherwise victimless crime.” It is clear that not all insider trading is victimless, and not all employers of insider traders are innocent. But I am convinced that these critics are correct to point out that the current enforcement regime is absurdly overbroad in that it affords no principled guarantee to corporate victims of insider trading that they will not be indicted for the crimes perpetrated against them.The law should be reformed to insure that corporations are only held criminally liable where they are guilty of some wrongdoing. Section I of this Article outlines current law in the United States concerning corporate criminal liability in general. Section II then looks at corporate liability for insider trading under the current regime. Section III explains why the current regime is absurdly overbroad and in dire need of reform. Section IV then points the way to some reforms that would render corporate criminal liability for insider trading more rational, efficient, and just.
Download or read book Business Law I Essentials written by MIRANDE. DE ASSIS VALBRUNE (RENEE. CARDELL, SUZANNE.) and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A less-expensive grayscale paperback version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680923018. Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law. Each chapter contains learning objectives, explanatory narrative and concepts, references for further reading, and end-of-chapter questions. Business Law I Essentials may need to be supplemented with additional content, cases, or related materials, and is offered as a foundational resource that focuses on the baseline concepts, issues, and approaches.
Download or read book Insider Trading written by William K. S. Wang and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, at last, is a clear, practical guide on what's legal and what isn't in insider trading. It's the only book that gives you everything you need to: Identify every potential source of insider trading liability -- Deter inadvertent violations with an effective compliance program -- Raise powerful defenses to government and private actions, formations, and transactions. With comprehensive, up-to-date coverage and analysis of such significant aspects as government enforcement, which private plaintiffs can sue, and transnational transactions, you'll find more information -- and more readily usable strategy -- than in any other source on the subject. In one convenient volume, Insider Trading shows you all the ways to avoid liability exposure under all applicable law, including: The Supreme Court case, United States v. O'Hagan -- Federal mail and wire fraud statutes -- Section 10(b) and Section 16(b) -- Bilateral treaties and SEC memoranda with 21 foreign jurisdictions -- Transnational transactions -- State law pitfalls.
Download or read book Securities Law written by Stephen M. Bainbridge and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the history, richness, and texture of important areas of law, this text illustrates the development of securities/insider trading law, with selected cases and in-depth explanations. Insider trading is a central topic in most corporations, business association, and securities regulation classes. For many corporate law students, insider trading is their principal introduction to federal securities law, SEC Rule 10b-5, and economic analysis. As a recommended text, this book addresses the important subject in a readable and authoritative manner. Accessible but sophisticated, it seeks to develop the reader's understanding of the theory and practice of insider trading law.
Download or read book Civil and Criminal Liability for Insider Trading written by Ronald L. Marmer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Section 16 written by James Hamilton and published by Cch Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act dramatically changed the reporting of insider transactions. The Act amended Section 16(a) to require directors, officers and 10 percent equity holders to report their purchases and sales of securities by the end of the second day following the transaction, or such other time established by the SEC where the two-day period is not feasible. The landmark legislation also mandated that transactions between officers or directors and their company previously reportable on an annual basis on Form 5 must now be reported within two business days on Form 4. Sarbanes-Oxley also required that the two-day statement reporting insider trades be filed electronically, and SEC rules require the electronic filing of Forms 3, 4 and 5. Moreover, The SEC must provide the two-day statement on a publicly accessible Internet site by the end of the business day following the filing. Finally, The company, if it maintains a corporate Web site, must provide the statement on that Web site by the end of the business day following the filing. The CCH Guide to Section 16: Insider Reporting and Short-Swing Trading Liability examines the recent changes effected by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, As well as detailing the rules and interpretations and no-action letters on insider reporting under Section 16(a). In addition, The complex Section 16(b) short-swing trading prohibition is discussed.
Download or read book Inside Information and Securities Trading A Legal and Economic Analysis of the Foundations of Liability in the U S A and European Community written by Bernhard Bergmans and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-10-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book thoroughly re-examines the foundations of liability in respect of insider dealing in the USA and EC in order to find clear guidelines for future judical, administrative and legal action, and develops a new approach to insider dealing regulation. Despite the considerable legislative, administrative and judical efforts in the USA to curtail insider trading it is not clear what the bases for such prohibition are, In law or policy. The dramatic increase in insider trading activity in recent years renders more intense the requirement for a rational and explicit basis for such liability to fulfil the needs of elementary justice. Through a different historical route efforts to tackle the same problem in Europe, particularly over the last ten years by the European Commission, have resulted in a similar legal dichotomy: a legal basis for liability is established but its foundation is insufficiently scrutinized, which will become apparent as the new European Insider Trading Directive is interpreted.
Download or read book Liability of Corporate Officers and Directors written by William E. Knepper and published by MICHIE. This book was released on 1969 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how directors and officers can limit and protect against personal liability for corporate acts. Conflict of interest, class actions, liability of third persons, SEC regulatory actions, indemnification and contribution, and other relevant issues are addressed in the work.
Download or read book The Criminal Liability of Corporations for Insider Trading in Australia written by Juliette Ruth Overland and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The regulation of insider trading - the act of trading in securities or other financial products while in possession of relevant non-public, price-sensitive information - is a controversial and complex area of corporate law. Although there has been a marked increase in the number of individual offenders convicted of insider trading in recent years, there has never been a successful criminal prosecution of a corporation for insider trading in Australia, or even a successful set of civil penalty proceedings. This thesis will focus on corporate criminal liability for insider trading in Australia - a topic of great theoretical and practical significance. Corporations are subject to the prohibition of insider trading under Australian law, yet the absence of any successful prosecution, and the dearth of cases concerning corporate defendants, means the law is untested on many relevant issues, complicated by conflicting views as to the proper application of insider trading laws to corporations. The purpose of this thesis is threefold: (i) to determine the manner in which insider trading laws apply to corporations in Australia; (ii) to critically examine the application of those insider trading laws and identify any associated difficulties or flaws; and (iii) to set out proposals for reform and a new model of corporate criminal liability for insider trading in Australia. This thesis will demonstrate that there are a number of specific problems which can be identified in the application of the elements of the insider trading offence to corporations. In particular, there are many mechanisms, existing under both the general law and statute, which can be used to attribute the elements of the insider trading offence to corporations, although there is a lack of clarity as to their availability and application. These different mechanisms also apply a variety of tests, many of which are conflicting, making it difficult to determine when a corporation will actually be regarded as engaging in insider trading. The Chinese Wall defence for corporations also contains a number of gaps in its operation, creating additional uncertainty. This thesis critically analyses corporate criminal liability for insider trading in Australia. Having regard to the need for legislative certainty and the 'market integrity' rationale underpinning Australia's insider trading laws, this thesis recommends reforms to the existing regulatory regime in order to remedy the identified problems and to better apply the law to corporations. Accordingly, a new model of direct corporate criminal liability for insider trading in Australia is proposed.
Download or read book Insider Trading written by John P. Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why the current US insider trading regime is inefficient and unjust, and offers a clear path to reform.
Download or read book Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Handbook on Insider Trading written by Stephen M. Bainbridge and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most capital markets, insider trading is the most common violation of securities law. It is also the most well known, inspiring countless movie plots and attracting scholars with a broad range of backgrounds and interests, from pure legal doctrine to empirical analysis to complex economic theory. This volume brings together original cutting-edge research in these and other areas written by leading experts in insider trading law and economics. The Handbook begins with a section devoted to legal issues surrounding the USÕs ban on insider trading, which is one of the oldest and most energetically enforced in the world. Using this section as a foundation, contributors go on to discuss several specific court cases as well as important developments in empirical research on the subject. The Handbook concludes with a section devoted to international perspectives, providing insight into insider trading laws in China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the European Union. This timely and comprehensive volume will appeal to students and professors of law and economics, as well as scholars, researchers and practitioners with an interest in insider trading.
Download or read book Not Holding Firms Criminally Responsible for the Reckless Insider Trading of Their Employees written by Joan MacLeod Heminway and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal enforcement of the insider trading prohibitions under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 is the root of corporate criminal liability for insider trading in the United States. In the wake of assertions that S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. actively encouraged the unlawful use of material nonpublic information in the conduct of its business, the line between employer and employee criminal liability for insider trading becomes both tenuous and salient. An essential question emerges: when do we criminally prosecute the firm for the unlawful conduct of its employees? The possibility that reckless employee conduct may result in the employer's willful violation of Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 (and, therefore, criminal liability for that employer firm) motivates this article. The article first reviews the basis for criminal enforcement of the insider trading prohibitions established in Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 and describes the basis and rationale for corporate criminal liability (a liability that derives from the activities of agents undertaken in the course of the firm's business). Then, it reflects on that basis and rationale by identifying the potential for corporate criminal liability for the reckless insider trading violations of employees under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5, arguing against that liability, and suggesting ways to eliminate it.
Download or read book Insider Trading written by William Wang and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have heightened their scrutiny of the trading of stock in the aftermath of recent corporate misconduct scandals. Some cases reach celebrity status (e.g., Martha Stewart) and lawyers practicing and advising corporations on internal trades need to stay abreast of the details and intricacies of these transactions. Insider Trading, a single volume in its third edition, has already received high praise for its comprehensive treatment of insider trading. This new edition is fully updated and serves as the go-to treatise for securities practitioners, in-house counsel, and any attorney looking for clear and comprehensive information on insider trading liability.
Download or read book The Regulation of Insider Trading written by Barry Alexander K. Rider and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Materials on the Law of Insider Trading written by C. Edward Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
