SEC v. Lyft, Inc. (2023)

Settled

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In September 2023 the SEC settled with Lyft over its failure to disclose in its 2019 annual report a related-person transaction in which a director arranged the sale of a large shareholder's 7.7 million shares before the IPO. Lyft paid a $10 million penalty.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency	SEC
Release number	34-98413
Date filed	2023-09-18
Date resolved	2023-09-18
Status	settled
Asset class	equities
Venue	Nasdaq
Criminal parallel	No
Defendants	Lyft, Inc. (entity)
Cited as charged or alleged	Exchange Act s.13(a) (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
Techniques

What was ordered

Civil penalty: $10m
Disgorgement: —
Prejudgment interest: —
Total relief: $10m
Alleged gain: —

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission instituted and settled the proceeding on September 18, 2023.

The order finds a Lyft director placed by the selling shareholder arranged the sale to a special purpose vehicle set up by an investment adviser he was affiliated with, was paid millions for it, and that Lyft approved the sale yet omitted the transaction from its Form 10-K for 2019.

The matter concerns disclosure, not trading on inside information, so the insider-trading tag was removed. Lyft agreed to a $10,000,000 penalty.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

Timeline

2023-09-18 Administrative proceeding instituted (cease-and-desist)

Primary documents

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SEC order

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.