( December 30, 2024, 11:54 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — Ruling that a July 2010 amendment to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) means that the act’s “antifraud provisions apply to extraterritorial conduct that is the subject of an enforcement action” by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a New York federal judge denied a motion to dismiss an enforcement action against the former senior executive of a Brazilian reinsurance company....