| 12.10.2018 Other Voices: A new SEC focus on short activism? Activist hedge fund Lemelson Capital charged with unlawful short attack |
| By: Lawrence S. Elbaum, Clifford Thau, Patrick Gadson and Sarah C.C. Tishler On September 12, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged hedge fund, Lemelson Capital and its adviser, Gregory Lemelson, with perpetrating an unlawful short attack on Ligand Pharmaceuticals. The SEC's complaint alleges that Lemelson built a short position in Ligand and then made a series of demonstrably f |