Over the past 18 months companies have scoured their supply chains and wrestled with hard-to-interpret regulatory mandates in order to comply with the initial reporting deadline for the S...
Today the SEC issued a stay of the conflict minerals rule – but the stay extends only to “the effective date for compliance with those portions of Rule 13p-1 and Form SD that would re...
The SEC staff has responded to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ April 14 decision, which found a key feature of the conflict minerals rule in violation of constitutional free-speech g...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion today in the ongoing challenge to the SEC’s conflict minerals rule, holding that the rule violates the free-speech guarantee of the F...
On March 7, 2014, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery found a financial advisor liable for aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duties by the board of Rur...
The SEC has posted on its website that it “will remain open and operational in the event the federal government undergoes a lapse in appropriations on October 1. Any changes to the SEC...
On July 10, 2013, the SEC adopted amendments to the Regulation D and Rule 144A private-placement safe harbors, which will eliminate the prohibition on widespread advertising and other for...
On July 23, Judge Robert L. Wilkins of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a lawsuit brought by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerc...
Today the SEC adopted amendments to its private offering safe harbors as mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012. These amendments to Rule 506 and Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933 will...
On May 30 the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued interpretive guidance on the SEC’s new conflict minerals rules. The guidance, which is consistent with the discussio...
