S.E.C. v. CONTORINIS

No. 12-1723-cv.

743 F.3d 296 (2014)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph CONTORINIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 18, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan A. Capute ( Anne K. Small , Michael A. Conley , Jacob H. Stillman , on the brief), Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Roberto Finzi ( Theodore V. Wells, Jr. , Mark F. Pomerantz , Farrah R. Berse , on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Judge CHIN dissents in a separate opinion.


GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Contorinis appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Richard J. Sullivan, Judge) ordering him to disgorge $7,260,604 in profits from illegal insider trading, enjoining him from further violating the securities laws, and ordering him to pay prejudgment interest on the entire disgorgement amount. The primary issue presented is whether an insider trader who trades on...

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