What To Know About Short-Seller Risks During Pandemic
Avi Weitzman, Barry Goldsmith and Jonathan Seibald
Law360, 3 June 2020
As the world struggles to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, and volatile markets are rattled by the latest virus and economic news, publicly traded companies are increasingly susceptible to fraudulent short-seller attacks. While legitimate short selling plays an important and well-recognized role in the public markets, there are a few who have abused and misused short selling to manipulate the price of public company stock.