Salman v. United States (The Insider Trading Case)
Short video featuring Thaya Brook Knight
Short video featuring Thaya Brook Knight
How will the Supreme Court rule on a new insider trading case? Thaya Brook Knight, associate director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, explains the case of Salman v. United States and how the Court's decision may change insider trading law in America. Oral argument is October 5, 2016.
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Counsel to Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Thaya Brook Knight was associate director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. She is an attorney with extensive experience in securities regulation, small business capital access, and capital markets. Before joining Cato, she co-founded and served as general counsel of CrowdCheck, a company providing due diligence and disclosure services in the online investing market. Following the recent financial crisis, she served as investigative counsel for the congressional oversight panel charged with overseeing the expenditure of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. She also spent several years with the Washington office of the law firm WilmerHale, where her practice focused on securities litigation, securities enforcement defense, and corporate investigations.
She holds a BA from Middlebury College and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.