On December 1, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that it had filed a complaint for injunctive and other relief in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Onix Capital LLC (“Onix Capital”), an asset management company, and its owner, a Chilean national…
The Florida Legislature has recently passed a law which imposes harsher penalties for those who sell unregistered securities. The bill, HB 777, was signed into law by Governor Rick Scott on April 6, 2012. The bill will take effect July 1, 2012. As a result, the lowest permissible sentence for…
The Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) issued a press release this week encouraging all federal covered investment advisers with less than $100 million under management to consider dually registering with OFR and the SEC, and to initiate OFR registration as soon as possible. Dual registration would allow the investment…