Insider Trading, or Trading by an Insider?

May 14, 2018  |  New York Law Journal

Employees of public companies routinely have confidential information about the businesses of their employers. Because that information is sometimes “material” under the securities laws, opportunities to engage in insider trading are not uncommon. In this article, we discuss recent civil and criminal charges brought against Jun Ying, a former Equifax IT staff member, for trading in Equifax stock after concluding, without being expressly told, that Equifax had suffered a major data breach. The charges raise interesting questions as to when information should be deemed material for purposes of insider trading enforcement.

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