Lyft to pay $10M civil penalty over disclosure failures: SEC
Lyft board director arranged for sale of $424M worth of private shares through a special purpose vehicle affiliated with the director
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Lyft has agreed to pay $10 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges it failed to disclose a board member's financial interest in a transaction involving the company, the U.S. regulator said on Monday.
Prior to its public listing in March 2019, a Lyft board director arranged for the sale of $424 million worth of private shares through a special purpose vehicle affiliated with the director, the SEC said in a statement.
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Lyft did not disclose this information in its SEC filings for 2019, said the regulators, who did not disclose the director's name.
A Lyft vehicle in San Francisco, California, on May 2, 2023. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Representatives for Lyft, which did not admit or deny the SEC allegations, did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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The SEC said that Lyft was required to report details of the transaction because Lyft, which approved sale of the private sales, was a participant in the deal.
Lyft CEO David Risher discusses the Summer Travel Release at an event on May 11, 2023, in New York. (Jason DeCrow / Lyft)
The director left Lyft's board at the time of the transaction, regulators said.
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