July 16, 2019

AR Capital LLC, together with its founder Nicholas Schorsch and its former CFO Brian Block, have agreed to pay $39 million in disgorgement and interest, as well as penalties totaling $21.75 million, to resolve allegations that they wrongfully inflated incentive fees and took unsupported charges in two separate mergers involving the publicly-traded REIT American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. that AR Capital sponsored and managed.  Defendants allegedly failed to properly disclose their compensation to shareholders.  SEC

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