Managing Partner Roger Barton Published in Thomson Reuters: “SEC targets separation and severance agreements that impede whistleblowers”

Managing Partner Roger Barton recently published an article for Thomson Reuters titled, “SEC targets separation and severance agreements that impede whistleblowers.” The article highlights a recent spate of enforcement actions by the SEC targeting separation and severance agreements with terms that purportedly violate Commission Rule 21F-17(a), which prevents companies from raising impediments to would-be whistleblowers. The article looks at the various ways the SEC has interpreted and enforced this rule in years past and in 2023.

You can read the full article here.