Arista Networks founder settles SEC insider trading charges

The SEC alleged illegal trade using knowledge gained in advance on Cisco System’s $2.6 billion offer to buy Acacia Communications in 2019.

Andreas ‘Andy’ Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems Inc and Arista Networks Inc, has been barred by the SEC from serving as an executive or board member of a public company for five years after the agency accused him of insider trading this week.

The SEC

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