Securities Enforcement Under Chairman Atkins

A little more than halfway into the SEC’s first full year under the leadership of its Chairman, Paul Atkins, recent SEC actions give a glimmer into possible emerging trends in enforcement. In the areas of financial statement regulation and insider trading policing, the SEC is returning to basics, stepping back from some more expansive and aggressive theories of liability that characterized the last administration.... By: Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &