This award is more than double the largest award in the amount of $114 million, which was issued in October 2020. To date, the SEC has awarded more than $1.5 billion to whistleblowers since the inception of its whistleblower program in 2011.
Go to any private equity event in the last 12 months, and "energy transition" will have been discussed, meaning the shift in energy production away from fossil‑based systems to low or zero carbon ones.
The SEC recently brought its first ever enforcement actions for violating its limited offering exemption, and market participants are beginning to tighten up their policies and procedures in response.