A court rendered a mixed result in the SEC’s SolarWinds litigation. The court declined to dismiss the SEC’s claims that a website “Security Statement” overstated the strength of S...
The need for financial statements is one of the items most likely to become a gating issue in a capital markets transaction. SEC rules require the company issuing securities to present au...
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.
This client update highlights key considerations for the preparation of your 2023 annual report on Form 20-F. As in previous years, we discuss both disclosure developments and continued a...
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...
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...
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...