This client memorandum highlights important considerations for the preparation of your 2018 annual report on Form 20-F. As in previous years, we discuss both disclosure developments as we...
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the SEC to amend Regulation S-K by June 1, 2016 in order to eliminate provisions that are “duplicative, overlapping, outdated, or ...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...
On July 17, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision holding that an overseas company with unsponsored ADRs trading in the United States on the over-the-counter market can be liable for violat...
An initial public offering is a key inflection point for a company, not least because it often triggers the opportunity to review and replace the company’s corporate governance structur...
As part of the SEC’s continuing effort to streamline disclosure for smaller companies, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced on June 28 that it had adopted a final rule to re...
With recent increased activity in the area of sovereign bond offerings (including a rise in issuances of “green bonds”) and liability management transactions, we thought it timely to ...
