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. ...
Minority equity investments in public companies are on the rise.These are often structured as an investment in convertible preferred stock to give the investor a senior position to other ...
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 February 14, 2017, President Trump approved a joint resolution of Congress repealing the SEC’s rule requiring resource extraction disclosure. The joint resolution was passed pursuant...
Decision restores certainty to out-of-court debt restructurings
In a surprising 2014 decision, the District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the Trust Indenture Act ...
Or, Some Perspective on Indenture Language Restoring the Commercial Understanding of “Make-Whole” Premiums That Prevailed Before Summer 2016
A covenant review service recently procla...
An issuer of high yield bonds won dismissal of claims brought by retail noteholders who claimed that a debt swap of new secured notes for unsecured notes, made available only to instituti...
Life sciences companies are frequent targets of securities litigation. Often, when a company discloses bad news about a developing device or drug, the company’s stock price drops and pl...
