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SEC Enforcement Hammer Protects Whistleblowers
August 18, 2016
By Thomas Zaccaro, Nicolas Morgan, John P. Nowak, and Kyle M. Jones
In the last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced two settled enforcement actions that may be deeply unsettling to companies — and their counsel — that have used broad confidentiality provisions to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information by former employees.