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UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC UCB (last ticker on record)

CIK 857855Its SEC filings (opens in a new tab)

  • 95% wipeout
  • Restatement
  • SEC/DOJ scrutiny
  • Delisting notice (not a red flag)

These figures describe clients, not conduct. A lawyer or firm can serve many companies that later had trouble for reasons that have nothing to do with their work, and nothing here says any lawyer or firm did anything wrong.

Red flags
3
Newest began May 2012
Largest fall in its shares
96%
Mar 2007 to Nov 2011
Law firms
10
Linked to 5 or more companies
Lawyers
18
Linked to 5 or more companies

What happened

  1. Delisting notice (Item 3.01)Form 8-K (opens in a new tab)
  2. A filing mentions cooperating with the SECForm 8-K (opens in a new tab)
  3. Said its accounts could not be relied on (Item 4.02)Form 8-K (opens in a new tab)
  4. Shares down 95% from their high

An SEC release can name a company’s officer, or its stock as what a scheme sold or moved, so the company may be the victim. Each link goes to what to read.

Law firms

The ratios are about all the companies linked to each one, this one included: how many had that outcome, as a multiple of what comparable companies show. 1.00 means no more than expected.

Lawyers

The ratios are about all the companies linked to each one, this one included: how many had that outcome, as a multiple of what comparable companies show. 1.00 means no more than expected.