Defendant Name: Revlon, Inc.

Defendant Type: Public Company

Document Reference: 2013-110

Document Details

Legal Case Name In the Matter of Revlon, Inc.
Document Name SEC Charges Revlon with Misleading Shareholders in Going Private Transaction
Document Date 13-Jun-2013
Document Format Administrative Proceeding
File Number 3-15356
Allegation Type Securities Offering
Document Summary On June 13, 2013, the SEC announced that it charged cosmetics and beauty care manufacturer Revlon, Inc. ("Revlon") with violating federal securities laws when the company misled shareholders during a "going private transaction." According to the SEC's order instituting settled administrative proceedings, during a voluntary exchange offer to satisfy a significant debt to its controlling shareholder, Revlon engaged in "ring fencing" that deprived its independent board members from knowing critical information and resulted in various materially misleading disclosures to shareholders. Without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations, Revlon settled the charges by agreeing to cease and desist from any future violations of federal securities laws and pay an $850,000 penalty.

Disgorgement & Penalty Information

Resolutions
Cease and Desist Order

Related Documents:

34-69750 13-Jun-2013 Administrative Proceeding
Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings Pursuant to Section 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Making Findings and Imposing Civil Penalties and a Cease-and-Desist Order
On June 13, 2013, the SEC issued an order instituting a cease-and-desist proceeding against Revlon, Inc. According to the SEC: "Revlon engaged in various acts described as 'ring-fencing,' which were acts undertaken by Revlon to avoid receiving an opinion from a third-party financial adviser who ultimately found that the terms of Revlon's proposed 'going-private' transaction did not provide for adequate consideration (as that term is used in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ('ERISA')) to participants in Revlon's 401(k) plan. Revlon's 'ring-fencing' acts operated as a fraud or deceit upon Revlon's minority shareholders -- as they rendered various disclosures in Revlon's publicly-filed offering documents materially misleading to Revlon's minority shareholders." On June 13, 2013, the SEC announced that the Commission had accepted Revlon, Inc.'s offer of settlement and imposed a cease-and-desist order and civil penalties.