Doug Cornelius on compliance for private equity real estate
There is no place for hyperbole or fudging numbers in disclosure of investment returns. The Boston office of the Securities and Exchange Commission made that point with Aegerion Pharmaceuticals in its enforcement case. According to the SEC complaint, Aegerion’s CEO said that the “vast majority of patients” who were given prescriptions for one of its drugs were … Read more »
Imbolo Mbue created a great novel on immigration and the American Dream in her 2016 Behold the Dreamers. I admit that I only came to read this book because of a reading challenge. Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge number 5 was to read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative. Behold … Read more »
These are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention. SEC forced to try new ways of pursuing bad financial advisers by Bruce Love in the Financial Times The US investment regulator’s powers to recoup losses from financial advisers who break the law were dealt a blow by a landmark Supreme Court decision … Read more »
On four separate occasions, an individual purchased jewelry from one of the Cartier boutiques located in California or Nevada for shipment to Shuen Wai Holding Limited in Hong Kong. I’m sure the store routinely ships purchases around the world. The problem is that Shuen Wai Holding Limited is named as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker … Read more »
Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has some first-hand experience with cybersecurity and getting hacked, it has launched a new initiatives to address cyber-based threats. There is new Cyber Unit originating in the enforcement division. Robert A. Cohen will be Chief of the Cyber Unit, stepping away from being Co-Chief of the Market Abuse Unit. … Read more »
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been looking at fees and expenses at private equity funds for several years. Two years ago it brought a case against Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for misallocating more than $17 million in “broken deal” expenses to its private equity funds. An SEC investigation found that from 2006 to 2011, KKR … Read more »
Peter Sagan, for an historic third time in a row, earned the rainbow stripes of men’s road cycling world champion. And Chantal Blaak earned the rainbow stripes of women’s road cycling world champion. Over the weekend they competed on a thrilling course in Bergen, Norway. Salmon Hill, only 10 kilometers from the finish, splintered the … Read more »
These are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention. Other People’s Money: SEC Disgorgement After Kokesh by Daniel R. Walfish in NYU’s Compliance & Enforcement Kokesh held that the disgorgement remedy in SEC enforcement actions is a “penalty” for purposes of the five-year limitations period for the “enforcement of any civil fine, penalty, or forfeiture.” 28 … Read more »
Cybersecurity is hard. It’s nearly impossible to stop an attack. If someone really wants in, they can continue to attack and attack until they find a gap. It’s hard to know that you have been breached until well after the breach. It may be just as hard to figure out what was accessed and what … Read more »
An investment adviser should not buy positions on their own behalf shortly before recommending that position to its clients. Nor should the adviser make recommendations to buy when the adviser is selling in the adviser’s personal accounts. Mark A. Gomes was doing just that. The test case came against Capital Gains Research Bureau. The firm … Read more »