GLG News by SEC Regulation Experts for Banks, Insurance, and Financial Institutions: Lawyers

Robert Heim, Partner

Robert HeimPartnerMEYERS & HEIM LLP 
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SEC Stock Option Backdating Probes Heating Up – Apple Computers the Latest to be Hit by the Backdating Scandal

January 5, 2007

Apple ‘falsified’ files on Jobs’ options | www.ft.com

1. Companies are completing their internal investigations of stock option backdating.

2. Settlements with the SEC and the Department of Justice are likely to be reached in the first quarter of 2007.

Robert Heim, Partner

Robert HeimPartnerMEYERS & HEIM LLP 
          What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Stock Options Backdating Probe is Heating Up

July 27, 2006

Backdating Battle Focuses on Fraud | www.thestreet.com

1. The filing of criminal charges by the Department of Justice and civil charges by the SEC against two former officers of Brocade signals that regulators are ready to begin enforcement actions in the stock option backdating scandal.

2.  The early cases that are filed by regulators will serve as precedent for future actions against those involved in back dating stock options.

3.  The DOJ and SEC probes into stock option back dating still have a long way to go before they are completed.

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