The Supreme Court confirmed today that the “personal benefit” required to establish a claim for insider trading can consist of making a gift of material, nonpublic information to a family member or friend and that an exchange of “something of a pecuniary or similarly valuable nature” is not required. The decision in Salman v. United States (No. 15-628) reaffirms the Court’s 1983 ruling in Dirks v. SEC and appears to undercut the Second Circuit’s 2014 decision in United States v. Newman, which had sought to tighten the nature of the personal-benefit requirement.