Related-party transactions are often easy to spot: the company is on one side of a contract, and a director or officer, or a company they control, is on the other side. But some transactions are less obvious.
The SEC recently brought a settled proceeding against John D. Schiller, Jr., the former CEO of Energy XXI Ltd., a now-defunct Nasdaq-listed issuer, for failing to disclose millions in personal loans from companies that did business with EXXI or the owners of those companies.… More