Defendant Name:
        
        Gridsum Holding Inc.
    
    Defendant Type:
    
        Public Company
    
    
        
            Document Reference:
        
        LR-26190
    
    Document Details
    
    
        
            Legal Case Name
        
        SEC (Plaintiff) vs. Guosheng Qi and Gridsum Holding Inc. (Defendants), and Huijie He (Relief Defendant)
    
    
        
        
            Document Name
        
        
            SEC Obtains Judgment Against China-Based Big Data Analytics Company and Its CEO for Misuse and Unreported Use of IPO Proceeds and for Failing to Disclose Millions of Dollars in Related Party Payments
        
    
    
        
        
            Document Date
        
        
            10-Dec-2024
        
    
    
    
        
        
            Document Format
        
        
            Civil Proceeding
        
    
    
    
        
            
                Case Number
            
            
                23-cv-07924
            
        
            
                
                    Federal District Court
                
                
                    New York, Southern District of New York
                
            
             
    
    
        
            Allegation Type
        
        
            
            Issuer Reporting and Disclosure
        
    
 
    
        
            Document Summary
        
        
            On December 10, 2024, the SEC "announced that on December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a judgment against Gridsum Holding, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: GSUM), a China-based data analytics company; its CEO Guosheng Qi; and Qi’s wife, Relief Defendant Huijie He, in an SEC case charging Qi and Gridsum with defrauding investors through their misuse and unreported use of funds raised in a 2016 U.S. initial public offering, as well as their failure to disclose millions of dollars in related-party transactions that benefitted Qi’s family members." 
        
    
 
    
    
        Disgorgement & Penalty Information
        
        
                    
                
                    Monetary Penalties:
                
                
                    
                        
                            Civil Penalty
                        
                    
                    
                            
                                Individual:    
                                $576,158.00
                            
                            
                                Shared:    
                                
                            
                    
             
     
        
    
            
    
    
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