March 10, 2020
A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday he is likely to enter judgment in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in its $36 million insider trading case against Shaohua "Michael" Yin after the Chinese trader and private equity manager wanted on U.S. criminal charges skipped a recent deposition.
March 27, 2018
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can move forward with its suit alleging a Hong Kong private equity investor made millions of dollars by trading on illegal tips under the names of family members and his kids' piano teacher, a New York federal judge ruled Monday.
July 31, 2017
A Hong Kong private equity investor accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of making $50 million by trading on illegal tips under the names of family members and his kids' piano teacher hasn't even tried to explain his extremely suspicious investments, and his effort to dismiss the case should be rejected, the SEC told a California federal judge on Friday.
April 21, 2017
A Hong Kong private equity investor on Friday urged a Manhattan federal judge to toss U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that he made $29 million using insider information about Comcast's purchase of DreamWorks Animation, saying the suit lacks necessary elements such as an alleged tipper.
March 24, 2017
A New York federal judge on Thursday extended an injunction freezing the assets of a Hong Kong private equity investor accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of making $29 million by trading on insider information about Comcast's purchase of DreamWorks Animation.
February 22, 2017
A Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorney's phone call to a Comcast executive about the potential representation of a financial adviser in a business transaction may have spawned the cable giant's $3.8 billion deal for DreamWorks, according to documents from an insider trading suit against a Hong Kong investor.
February 10, 2017
A Hong Kong private equity investor had $29 million in his brokerage accounts frozen by a New York federal judge on Friday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued him for trading on insider information about the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. last year.