Due to the government shutdown, SEC staff members will not consider requests for acceleration or qualification of registration or offering statements until further notice. Companies may, ...
The SEC will be closed for the holidays on December 24 and 25. In addition, in the event of a government shutdown, the SEC said it would “remain fully operational for a limited number o...
On December 18, 2018, the SEC adopted a final rule implementing Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires U.S. public companies to disclose whether they permit their employees, of...
In a recent speech, SEC Chair Jay Clayton highlighted three areas of risk disclosure that the regulator plans to monitor in the upcoming filing season: (1) the impact of Brexit, the Unite...
In a pair of settled enforcement actions involving initial coin offerings that the SEC deemed to be illegal unregistered securities offerings, the agency imposed an agreed-upon remedy tha...
On October 31, 2018, the SEC adopted final rules modernizing disclosure requirements for companies with material mining operations (excluding oil and gas) as part of its ongoing “disclo...
On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Section 21(a) report of investigation emphasizing the importance of assessing the likelihood of cyberattacks when designing int...
When it enacted the FAST Act of 2015, Congress ordered the SEC to amend Regulation S-K by June 1, 2016 in order to eliminate provisions that are “duplicative, overlapping, outdated, or ...
On July 24, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to the financial disclosure requirements in SEC-registered offerings that apply to guarantors and issuers of g...
Despite a political agenda packed with important issues like tariffs, immigration and a Supreme Court nomination, there have been a number of recent federal and state legislative developm...
