Thursday, December 9, 2010 Blue Horseshoe loves Anacot Steel By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger Share Please. If you are going to engage in insider trading, don't quote Wall Street in your coded e-mails. I mean, everybody has seen that movie. It's pathetic. The SEC saw through that ruse and charged a couple of fraternity brothers (complaint). The frat brothers allegedly tipped and then traded on inside information ahead of Sequenom's acquisition of Exact Sciences in January 2009: The SEC alleges that the patent agent tipped material, non-public information about the EXAS transaction to his brother, who relayed it to his fraternity brother Cohen. For example, the patent agent's brother sent Cohen an e-mail asking, "[a]ny word related to Blu H@rsesh0e? La Jolla says the times are ripe." The movie Wall Street uses the phrase, "Blue Horseshoe loves Anacot Steel," as a code for insider trading. "La Jolla" references the fact that the patent agent lived and worked near La Jolla, Calif.
What we've got here is failure to communicate. I am not alleging insider trading by anyone. No more coffee for you this morning. You're gonna need a bigger boat.