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Goldman Allowed to Keep Issuing Securities

By (Legal News)

Goldman Sachs will remain qualified as an issuer of securities after settling civil fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission this month, the agency ruled.

In a letter to Goldman?s legal counsel at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, the S.E.C. said that the settlement cleared a path for the firm to continue issuing securities under federal regulations.

As one of the world?s largest securities issuers, Goldman would have been placed into a tough spot if the S.E.C. had enjoined the firm from that business.
Under federal securities laws (and specifically Rule 405), the commission can deem a firm an ?ineligible issuer? if within the past three years the brokerage had broken S.E.C. regulations.

Goldman?s settlement, announced almost two weeks ago, included the firm?s paying $550 million and admitting to mistakes in its marketing materials. What it didn?t do was require the firm to admit to  wrongdoing alleged by the S.E.C. regarding a mortgage-linked investment.

Full post as published by Legal News Post on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).