Davis Polk partner and ESG Risk practice head Joe Hall authored “More clarity about digital assets must precede unified regulation” in Bloomberg Law. In the article, Joe discusses the...
In an important step forward, the House is set to vote on a bill that would establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets and offer important protections for customers...
Changes from the proposal include elimination of Scope 3 disclosures, scaled back attestation requirements, additional materiality qualifiers and narrower financial statement triggers. Gi...
Each subsidiary issuing or guaranteeing a public company’s listed debt securities is itself subject to the clawback rules recently adopted by the NYSE and Nasdaq.
2023 was an active year in public company enforcement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with several first-of-their-kind actions. The SEC looked past traditional financial p...
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...
The House Financial Services Committee approved the Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act of 2023. If enacted, the legislation would create a regulatory framework for the issuance and overs...
Davis Polk partners Joe Hall, David Portilla and Zach Zweihorn and associate Justin Levine authored “A closer look at competing stablecoin legislative proposals” in Law360. In the art...
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...
