By Morris Simkin, Thomson Reuters Accelus contributing author
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – I was recently involved in a case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission to revoke the registration of a company’s common stock. But the company’s publicly held common stock had been revoked by a bankruptcy court order issued some seven years before the SEC proceeding began.
This piqued my curiosity. Why was the SEC bringing this proceeding, and how many other similar cases had they brought? How much was this costing the public — both in terms of SEC staff time and other enforcement opportunities lost because the staff was pursuing these companies? And were there better ways to get the same result? (more…)
