Company can recover insider trading profits

For the purpose of preventing the unfair use of information which may have been obtained by the beneficial owner, director, or officer by reason of the owner's, director's, or officer's relationship to the company, any profit realized by the owner, director, or officer from any purchase and sale, or any sale and purchase, of an equity security of the company within any period of less than six months, unless the security was acquired in good faith in connection with a debt previously contracted, shall inure to and be recoverable by the company, irrespective of any intention on the part of the beneficial owner, director or officer in entering into the transaction of holding the security purchased or of not repurchasing the security sold for a period exceeding six months. Suit to recover the profit may be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction by the company, or by the owner of any security of the company in the name and in behalf of the company if the company fails or refuses to bring the suit within sixty days after request or fails diligently to prosecute the same thereafter; but no suit shall be brought more than two years after the date such profit was realized. This section shall not be construed to cover any transaction where the beneficial owner was not such both at the time of the purchase and sale, or the sale and purchase, of the security involved, or any transaction or transactions which the commissioner by rules and regulations may exempt as not comprehended within the purpose of this section.