[buttcoinslol]

The SEC is the one I would be worried about if I was a Lyft employee that was secretly hedging my locked up shares with put options.

Irregular options activity does get noticed and investigated, take a look at some SEC enforcement actions for insider trading: https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/insidertrading/cases.shtml

[docker_up]

But breaking the terms of the lock up agreement isn't a crime, especially if there's no insider trading involved.

If a Lyft employee quits 2 months ago, and then buys puts on their lockup RSUs, I don't see how this is something the SEC cares about. At worst it's a contractual agreement between the employee and Lyft, no?

[gamblor956]

Lockup agreements are actually between Lyft and the IPO underwriters.

Basically, Lyft would have agreed with the underwriters not to exchange RSUs for the underlying shares of stock, so the employees couldn't sell any shares on the market. The RSUs, by their terms, generally have restrictions on who they can be sold to--usually just back to the company or purchasers approved by the company. If those restrictions are not adhered to, then the issuer of the RSU (i.e., Lyft) can void the sale transaction.