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SEC Imposes Dodd-Frank Remedies on Conduct Pre-Dating Enactment

SEC Imposes Dodd-Frank Remedies on Conduct Pre-Dating Enactment

The SEC has ruled that it can impose remedies provided by the Dodd-Frank Act to actions that occurred before passage of the statute. In a case against a hedge fund manager alleged to have engaged in various fraudulent activities, the SEC imposed a collateral bar (i.e. a ban from associating with a broker-dealer, municipal securities dealer, NSRSO, etc.) even though the law before the passage of Dodd-Frank would only permit a ban from associating with an investment adviser. The SEC ruled that the collateral bar did not amount to the retroactive application of a statute because the collateral bar, unlike the imposition of penalties or disgorgement, protected the public from future harm rather than punishing prior misconduct. 

OUR TAKE: We don’t buy the SEC’s argument that bars are not a penalty for past misconduct. Why else are they imposed? This case is another example of the SEC flexing its Dodd-Frank muscles against conduct occurring before enactment of the statute (See Leshinsky v. Telvent; SEC v. Harbinger Capital). 
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/opinions/2012/ia-3513.pdf
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