SEC Charges Registered Investment Adviser and Former Chief Operating Officer With Defrauding Client

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Talimco LLC, a registered investment adviser, and Grant Gardner Rogers, the former chief operating officer of the firm, with manipulating the auction of a commercial real estate asset on behalf of one client for the benefit of another.   According to the SEC’s order, in or about April 2015 while selling a commercial real estate asset on behalf of a collateralized debt obligation client, Talimco and Rogers were aiming to acquire the asset for another client, a private fund.  Talimco and Rogers owed its selling client a fiduciary duty, which included an obligation to take steps to use its best efforts to maximize the price obtained for the asset by identifying willing bidders.  However, rather than seek out multiple bona fide bidders, the order finds that Rogers used the firm’s affiliated private fund client for one bid and convinced two unwilling bidders to participate in the auction by giving…

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