Sarah Heaton Concannon

Dec 19, 2023 | reuters.com | Sarah Heaton Concannon |Alex Zuckerman

December 19, 2023 - In recent years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a more aggressive approach toward enforcement of the federal securities laws, accompanied by much fanfare and saber-rattling. In response to the SEC's ambitious enforcement agenda, insistence on broad-ranging charges and demands for high monetary remedies and exacting injunctive relief, an increasing number of entities and individuals are going to trial.