💰Terraform Labs' lawyers push back against 🇺🇸 SEC, argue token sales were mostly outside US
Lawyers for Terraform Labs pushed back against the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency requested them to pay billions of dollars in fines. Terraform's offer and sales of tokens happened "almost entirely outside the U.S." the firm's lawyers argued in a brief filed on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the SEC has argued that the firm "targeted U.S. investors" and says they should pay $5.3 billion in fines, most of that being in disgorgement.
💰Terraform Labs' lawyers push back against 🇺🇸 SEC, argue token sales were mostly outside US
Lawyers for Terraform Labs pushed back against the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency requested them to pay billions of dollars in fines. Terraform's offer and sales of tokens happened "almost entirely outside the U.S." the firm's lawyers argued in a brief filed on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the SEC has argued that the firm "targeted U.S. investors" and says they should pay $5.3 billion in fines, most of that being in disgorgement.
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