The SEC announced settled enforcement actions against several victims of the SolarWinds hack, alleging that they downplayed the extent to which they were impacted by the intrusions. The a...
In its latest enforcement sweep with the help of data analytics, the SEC settled charges with 23 stockholders and two public companies for reporting failures under Sections 13 and 16 of t...
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...
To help navigate what has been an active year of new SEC disclosure mandates, we have prepared an overview of key considerations for preparing your 2023 annual report on Form 10-K.
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 FDIC proposed enforceable guidelines on corporate governance and risk management that would apply to all state non-member banks with assets greater than $10 billion. The proposal wou...
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...
The NYSE and Nasdaq have amended their proposed listing standards relating to clawbacks to provide that October 2, 2023 will be the effective date, which means that listed companies will ...