SEC v. Canaccord Genuity Inc. (2016)

Settled

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In March 2016 the SEC settled with Canaccord Genuity Inc., finding that the firm published research initiating coverage of an issuer days after being invited to underwrite that issuer's planned stock offering, an offer that did not meet the prospectus requirements of Securities Act Section 5(b)(1). The order requires $407,481 of disgorgement, $42,717 of interest and a $100,000 penalty. The issuer's earlier reverse merger is background only.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

$100k

Disgorgement

$407k

Prejudgment interest

$42.7k

Total relief

$550k

Alleged gain

—

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this settled order on March 24, 2016 as file 3-17178. The respondent is Canaccord Genuity Inc. (0 individuals, 1 entity), which neither admitted nor denied the findings.

This library carries no technique tag on the matter. The order finds that Canaccord violated Securities Act Section 5(b)(1) by initiating research coverage of an issuer on April 18, 2012, days after the issuer invited it to underwrite a planned secondary offering, in a report that did not meet the prospectus requirements of Section 10. Canaccord then managed the U.S. portion of a $40 million offering days later. This is gun jumping, not one of the manipulation mechanisms this library tags. The order recites that the issuer had completed a reverse merger in December 2011; it does not allege that merger was improper, so the reverse-merger tag does not apply.

Canaccord was censured and ordered to pay $550,198: $407,481 in disgorgement, $42,717 in prejudgment interest and a $100,000 civil penalty. An earlier version of this record omitted the penalty.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above.

Timeline

1. 2016-03-24 Administrative proceeding instituted (cease-and-desist)

Primary documents

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• SEC order

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