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SEC Chair Speaks on Mandatory Disclosure at Conference Honoring John C. Coffee, Jr.

Reynolds Holding

Today, Columbia is honoring Jack Coffee, a leader of securities law scholarship and policy. I hope Columbia one day might invite me back to celebrate your career, Professor Fox. Caveat inviter, though, at the SEC, we are Merritt neutral. I’m going to focus on one of Jack’s earlier works from 1984 when the SEC was just 50 years old.

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“Shadow Trading” Becomes Insider Trading

Reynolds Holding

District Court in San Francisco denied a motion to dismiss charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission under an expansive new theory of insider trading liability. In a matter of first impression, the court ruled in SEC v. At Medivation, he worked to expand its product and development pipeline through acquisitions and licensing.