Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer Represents Financial Professionals and Investors Who Earn Rewards for Anonymously Exposing Market Manipulation Schemes and Other Illegal Schemes by Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer represents financial professionals and investors who want to earn rewards through anonymous reporting. More specifically, he works with Hedge Fund Managers, Money Managers, Hedge Fund Advisers, Financial Analysts, and other financial professionals to anonymously report significant illegal conduct to the SEC and CFTC. Further, he confidentially reviews potential cases for viability as well as provides advice on evidence, damage models, and other case preparation issues. He also commonly files anonymous disclosure statements with both the SEC and CFTC. If you are a hedge fund manager, financial analyst, money manager, or other financial services professional that is aware of securities fraud, SEA or CEA violations, money laundering, or significant illegal schemes, please feel free to contact Confidential Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer, Jason Coomer, via e-mail message or use our submission form.

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Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer Represents Financial Professionals and Investors Who Earn Rewards for Anonymously Exposing Market Manipulation Schemes

Below are some helpful FAQs from a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer. The FAQs include general information regarding anonymous reporting of illegal conduct to the CFTC and/or SEC. Specific legal advice is case specific:

Q1: Who does a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer represent?
A1: A Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer represents financial service professionals and investors with original information of illegal conduct who want to anonymously report the conduct and claim a reward.

Q2: What type of illegal conduct does a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer report?
A2: A Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer reports violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, Securities Exchange Act, Money Laundering, and other significant illegal conduct. More specifically, they report insider trading, front running, and other market manipulation schemes.

Q3: What is needed for a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer to claim a reward for a client?
A3: To claim an anonymous reward from the CFTC or SEC for a client, a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer must file an anonymous tip for the client that results in an enforcement action that results in a monetary recovery by the CFTC or SEC. The recovery needs to be over $1 million.

Q4: What is needed for a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer to claim a reward for a client?
A4: A Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer allows a whistleblower to anonymously report an illegal conduct to the CFTC and/or SEC. The lawyer also reviews and prepares the case to be sent to the CFTC and/or SEC. Further, the lawyer helps determine what evidence can and should be sent to the CFTC and/or SEC.

Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer Protects The Identity of Financial Professionals Who Want to Earn Rewards for Exposing Illegal Schemes

It is extremely important that Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblowers, Financial Analyst Whistleblowers, Money Manager Whistleblowers, and High-end Investment Whistleblowers are protected while they to expose investment fraud, insider trading, Ponzi scheme, retirement fund fraud, securities fraud, and other unlawful and illegal practices.  By working through Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyers, Financial Analyst Whistleblower Lawyers, and Money Manager Whistleblower Lawyers, confidentiality and other protections can often be invoked to protect the identity and career of the hedge fund manager whistleblower, financial analyst whistleblower, money manager whistleblower, or high-end investment whistleblower.

Further, the financial services professional whistleblower lawyer can also help prepare and review the disclosure to help ensure that the financial services professional whistleblower's disclosure is filed correctly.  The financial services professional services lawyer can also provide advice as to any potential dangers or liability that the financial services professional may face by making the filing and provide counsel to the financial services professional prior to making the filing.   

The SEC and CFTC Have Expanded Definitions of Original Information to Include Independent Analysis

Hedge Fund Manager, Money Managers, and Financial Analysts are a select group of professionals that often have original information from their own independent analysis of securities violations.  Because of the financial and investment expertise, the SEC has decided to offer large financial rewards to hedge fund managers, financial analysts, and other financial services professionals that properly identify and expose financial fraud, investment fraud, and securities fraud.  Under the SEC Whistleblower Reward Program new rules have expanded the definition of original information to encourage hedge fund managers, financial analysts, and money managers to become whistleblowers.  The new law and SEC rules include increased economic incentives and protections that are meant to encourage hedge fund managers, financial analysts, and money managers to blow the whistle on significant fraud schemes.

The definition of "original information" in the SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, has been expanded from prior whistleblower reward laws to include "independent analysis".   This new expanded definition includes a whistleblower’s independent analysis or own examination and evaluation of publicly available information, if and only if that whistleblower's examination, evaluation, and analysis is determined by the SEC to provide vital assistance to the SEC staff in understanding and identifying complex fraud schemes and violations of securities law.

This expanded definition of "original information" does provide an opportunity for financial analysts, money managers, and high end advanced whistleblower to use their expertise and own independent analysis to blow the whistle on large fraud schemes and potentially make large recoveries, however, it is important to realize that these forms of whistleblower awards are new and it is not fully understood how the SEC will apply financial awards based on independent analysis.  As such, for the protection of high end financial analyst whistleblowers, money manager whistleblowers, and investors, it may be best to report the fraud through a SEC Whistleblower Reward Program Lawyer that can protect the identity of the whistleblower until it can be determined what type of an award may be offered.

Anonymous Hedge Fund Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer Helps Financial Professionals Understand and Use The Expanded Independent Analysis Definition To Report Hedge Fund Fraud

As many in the financial services industry, financial analyst whistleblower Harry Markopolos attempted to expose the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme long before it came to national attention.  After discovering the financial investment fraud through his own independent analysis, he alerted the SEC to the financial fraud and made several attempts to expose the fraudulent hedge fund. 

Now under the new SEC rules, financial analyst whistleblowers will be able to help expose hedge fund fraud and may through their own analysis be able to obtain a portion of the monetary sanctions given to those committing fraud.

Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer Helps Anonymous Whistleblowers Seek Financial Rewards

Under the SEC Whistleblower Program, Whistleblowers entitled to recovery ranging from 10 to 30% of monetary sanctions.  These monetary sanctions are much more far reaching than prior Insider Trading Awards and include not only SEC penalties, but also disgorgements. These disgorgements can be the largest part of the potential recovery and greatly increase the economic incentive for the potential whistleblower.

A financial disgorgement is a repayment of ill-gotten gains that is imposed on wrong-doers by the courts. Thus, funds that were received through illegal or unethical business transactions are disgorged, or paid back, with interest to those affected by the action. Disgorgement is a remedial civil action, rather than a punitive civil action. As applied to the SEC violations, individuals or companies that violate SEC regulations are typically required to pay both civil money penalties and disgorgement. Civil money penalties are punitive, while disgorgement is about paying back profits made from those actions that violated the SEC's regulations.  In some instances, disgorgement payments are not only demanded of those who violate securities regulations. Anyone profiting from illegal or unethical activities may be civilly required to disgorge their profits.

Hedge Fund Whistleblower Lawyer Helps Whistleblowers Expose Hedge Fund Fraud and Helps Regulate Some of The Largest Hedge Funds

A hedge fund is an investment fund that can undertake a wider range of investment and trading activities than other funds, but which is only open for investment from particular types of investors specified by regulators.  These investors in hedge funds are typically institutions, such as pension funds, university endowments and foundations, or high net worth individuals.

The largest hedge funds include:  1. Bridgewater Associates ($58.9 billion); 2. JPMorgan Asset Mangagement ($54.2 billion);  3. Man Investments ($40.6 billion); 4. Paulson & Co ($35.887 billion); 5. Brevan Howard ($32.0 billion); 6. Soros Fund Management ($27.9 billion);  7. Och-Ziff Capital Management ($27.6 billion); 8. BlackRock ($25.0 billion); 9. BlueCrest Capital Management ($24.5 billion); 10. Angelo, Gordon, & Co ($23.6 billion); 11. Baupost Group ($23.4 billion); 12. Farallon Capital ($21.5 billion); 13. King Street Capital ($19.9 billion); 14. Goldman Sachs Asset Management ($19.8 billion); 15. Avenue Capital ($18.3 billion); 16. Winton Capital Management ($17.78 billion); 17. Renaissance Technologies ($17.0 billion); 18. Elliott Management ($16.8 billion); 19. AQR Capital ($16.7 billion); and 20. Landsdowne Partners ($16.146 billion).

As a class, hedge funds invest in a diverse range of assets, but they most commonly trade liquid securities on public markets. They also employ a wide variety of investment strategies, and make use of techniques such as short selling and leverage.

Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer Handles Anonymous Whistleblower Reward Cases Through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act Which Required Registration of Hedge Fund Advisors with the SEC and States

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act passed in July 2010 increased regulation of financial companies, including hedge funds. The act requires advisers with private pools of capital exceeding $150 million or more in assets to register with the SEC.  As investment advisers, these hedge fund advisers become subject to all rules which apply to registered advisers by July 21, 2011. Previous exemptions from registration provided under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 no longer apply to most hedge fund advisers. Hedge fund managers who have less than $100 million in assets under management are overseen by the state where the manager is domiciled and become subject to state regulation. In addition to US hedge funds, many overseas funds with more than 15 US clients and investors, and managing more than $25 million for these clients, also have to register with the SEC. Mandatory registration of hedge fund advisers was supported by the largest hedge fund trade group, the Managed Funds Association (MFA), which announced its support for registration in testimony to a US congressional committee on May 7, 2009.

Dodd-Frank also required hedge funds to provide information about their trades and portfolios to help regulators fulfill their obligation to monitor and regulate systemic risk. The aim was for this data to be analyzed and shared among regulators – including the newly created Financial Stability Oversight Council – and for the SEC to report to Congress on how the data is being used to protect both investors and market integrity. Under the so-called "Volcker Rule", regulators are also required to implement regulations for banks, their affiliates and holding companies to limit their relationships with hedge funds and also to prohibit these organizations from proprietary trading, and limit their investment in, and sponsorship of hedge funds

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) both have anonymous whistleblower programs. These anonymous whistleblower programs were implemented under Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act, and are primarily intended to reward individuals who act early to expose violations. The programs seek original information regarding significant market manipulations schemes and provide economic incentives to encourage anonymous reporting. To be considered for an award, an anonymous whistleblower must voluntarily provide original information that leads to a successful enforcement action that results in monetary sanctions totaling more than $1 million. In many situations that scheme must be much larger than $1 million.

These awards can be extremely large as many enforcement actions recover over $100 million and the whistleblower can earn up to 30% of the money collected. By creating whistleblower bounties for investors and financial services professionals with specific information of financial fraud, billions have already been recovered. Further, hundreds of millions have already been rewarded. Additionally, whistleblowers are encouraged to anonymously expose money laundering, market manipulation schemes, and other types of derivative market fraud and investment fraud. Overall, these laws help regulate the financial market and prevent large investment corporations, banks, hedge funds, and other large corporations from committing financial fraud of billions of dollars.

Anonymous Hedge Fund Fraud Whistleblower Cases Can Be the Basis of Large SEC and CFTC Reward Cases

As a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer, Jason Coomer, commonly works with other Confidential Financial Services Professional Whistleblower Lawyers on large cases. Many of these cases expose complicated market manipulations schemes involving over $100 million in illegal profits. Many of these cases require teams of experience whistleblower lawyers to properly anonymously report the scheme to the SEC or CFTC. When dealing with this cases, it is important to have an experienced team review the any significant illegal scheme to determine the potential viability of the information and properly present the original information to the government. If you are aware of a large investment company, hedge fund, bank, financial institution, broker, investor, or other large, that is committing SEA or CEA violations or is defrauding investors, please feel free to contact Hedge Fund Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer.

Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer Works With Money Managers, Hedge Fund Managers, Hedge Fund Advisers, Financial Analysts, and other Financial Services Professionals as well as Investors and Other Lawyers

As a Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer, Jason Coomer, works with a variety of financial services professionals to expose illegal conduct. More specifically, he works with Hedge Fund Managers, Financial Analysts, Money Managers, Hedge Fund Advisers, Investors, and other Lawyers on anonymous whistleblower reward cases. As such, he commonly confidentially reviews investment fraud schemes, insider trading schemes, money laundering schemes, Ponzi schemes, retirement fund fraud, securities fraud, Commodity Exchange Act Violations, and other unlawful and illegal practices. These illegal market manipulation schemes threaten the integrity of Wall Street and the securities markets. They can also be the basis of large anonymous whistleblower reward recoveries. If you are a hedge fund manager, financial analyst, money manager, or other financial services professional who is aware of securities fraud, SEA or CEA violations, or other financial fraud, feel free to contact Hedge Fund Manager Whistleblower Lawyer, Jason Coomer, via e-mail message or use our submission form.

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