Insider Trading Developments

Recent legislative, regulatory and judicial developments relating to insider trading reflect an increased focus on preventing and prosecuting the trading of securities and commodities based on material nonpublic information. This issue of SRZ’s Insider Trading Developments newsletter includes an outline of SEC/DOJ actions in 2012 and highlights recent Congressional action, regulators’ aggressive prosecution of “expert network” cases and the broad view that prosecutors and courts are taking of insider trading.