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By: Pablo J. Man, C. Todd Gibson, and Lisa N. Ju

On 25 September 2024, the SEC announced settled charges against 23 entities and individuals for failing to make timely filings about their holdings and transactions on Schedules 13D and 13G and on Forms 3, 4 and 5, pursuant to Sections 13 and 16 of the 1934 Act, respectively. The individuals charged were officers, directors and/or beneficial owners of publicly traded companies that failed to make “insider” filings. Two firms were charged for contributing to their officers’ and directors’ failures to file insider reports and for failing to comply with their own disclosure obligations to report such delinquencies. The penalties ranged from US$10,000 to US$750,000, and in the aggregate exceeded US$3.8 million.