Google's David Drummond is the latest high profile US general counsel to face an SEC probe. And, reports John Malpas, the US regulator has been making most of the publicity to hammer home its get tough message
February 09, 2005 at 07:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
There can surely be few better ways of hammering home a ‘get tough’ message than going after the general counsel of one of the US’ most admired companies.
And that is exactly what the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just done. On 13 January, it charged Google with violating Section 5 of the 1933 Securities Act and its general counsel, David Drummond, with causing that violation.
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