Securities,
Corporate,
Administrative/Regulatory
Mar. 2, 2021
The SEC wants to know who’s in your Clubhouse
The SEC may see Reg FD as a useful tool to score a few wins in the face of mounting pressure to “protect” retail investors and crack down on attempts by market participants to “rig” the game against retail investors.





Nicolas Morgan
Partner
Paul Hastings LLP
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Email: nicolasmorgan@paulhastings.com
Nicolas is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department. He served as senior trial counsel in the SEC's Los Angeles office.

Thomas A. Zaccaro
Senior Counsel
Hueston Hennigan LLP
Phone: (213) 788-4039
Email: tzaccaro@hueston.com
Boston College Law School
Thomas is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department. He served as regional trial counsel in the SEC's Los Angeles office.

Kyle Jones
Associate
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Los Angeles , California 90071
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Email: kylejones@paulhastings.com
Kyle is an associate in the firm's Litigation Department

Joseph N. Montoya
Associate
Paul Hastings LLP
515 S Flower Street
Los Angeles , California 90071
Phone: 213-683-6192

With social media’s power to swing the markets on full display in the recent rise and fall of GameStop’s share price, the question remains whether the Securities and Exchange Commission will begin using tools such as Regulation Fair Disclosure (known as “Reg FD”) to crack down on public companies and their executives’ social media presence. Communications on social media played an outsized role in influencing GameStop and other stocks’ share prices by pushing investor...
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