New York Stock Exchange-listed companies should be aware of upcoming and proposed changes to NYSE rules and policies concerning dividends and distributions. NYSE recently announced implem...
In a much-anticipated action, on July 25 the SEC issued a Section 21(a) report of its investigation into an offering of digital tokens by “The DAO,” an unincorporated virtual organiza...
Staff also suggests greater willingness to waive financial statement requirements
Following up on Chairman Jay Clayton’s promise to improve access to the capital markets, on June 29 sta...
For most securities transactions, on September 5, 2017 the settlement cycle will shorten from three business days to two business days after the trade date, or T+2, as we discussed in a p...
On June 1, 2017, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board approved a new audit standard that will introduce changes to the content of the auditor’s report on financial statements. ...
On April 3, in the latest of a string of federal court rulings, the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. entered final judgment partially invalidating the SEC’s conflict minerals rul...
The SEC has raised the annual gross revenue cap for a company to qualify as an emerging growth company, or EGC, from $1 billion to $1.07 billion, to adjust for inflation. The Jumpstart Ou...
On March 22, the SEC approved a rule amendment to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer securities transactions to two business days after the trade date (T+2) from...
On March 1, the SEC adopted rules requiring hyperlinks to filed exhibits listed in the exhibit indexes of most SEC current and periodic reports and registration statements. The rules cove...
