After the SEC failed to remedy the deficiencies in the rule that the court had identified in its recent opinion, the Fifth Circuit vacated the share repurchase rule that the SEC adopted i...
After receiving board approval to buy back stock under a 10b5-1 plan, a company interpreted Rule 10b5-1 in a manner with which the SEC disagreed. The SEC did not allege that the company t...
With a potential government shutdown only a few days away, we provide a number of SEC shutdown practice pointers for public companies and capital markets transactions.
Buried in a defense spending bill that clocks in at over 2,000 pages is an amendment to Section 16 of the Exchange Act that would extend its application to foreign private issuers, adding...
The final rules require current reporting of cybersecurity incidents and annual risk management disclosure for public companies that are likely to compound compliance costs and enforcemen...
In its third attempt over the past 15 years, the SEC adopted amendments to Regulation M to remove references to credit ratings, the last step in completing Dodd-Frank’s mandate to elimi...
While the new rules will not require stock buyback disclosure within one business day as was proposed, they mandate significant new disclosure relating to stock buybacks with no accommoda...
After consultation with market participants late last year, S&P Dow Jones makes companies with multiple class shares eligible for index inclusion again.
Activision Blizzard agreed to pay $35 million to settle SEC charges that it violated disclosure controls and whistleblower protection rules. The settled enforcement action highlights the ...
