This week the SEC amended its rules to permit electronic signatures on documents submitted to the SEC through EDGAR, as long as certain procedures are followed. We expect these amendments...
This deck describes our view of the road ahead for financial regulatory reform under a Biden Presidency and a Republican Senate. We see most of the action coming from the regulators, not...
This week, the SEC adopted broad changes to the current framework of private offerings, including simplifying rules to permit concurrent public and private offerings and increasing the si...
In a first-of-its-kind case, the SEC focused on a company’s accounting controls around Rule 10b5-1 buybacks and imposed a $20 million fine. The novel theory in the case highlights the n...
On September 30, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 979, which will require each NYSE and Nasdaq-listed public company with its principal executive offices in Cal...
The SEC has shown its willingness to continue to take companies to task for not disclosing perquisites and personal benefits to executive officers in a manner that is consistent with the ...
Our 2020 IPO corporate governance survey reviews governance structures at the time of the IPO for the largest U.S.-listed IPOs of “controlled” and non-“controlled” companies betwe...
On September 23, 2020, the SEC adopted amendments to the shareholder proposal rule. Rule 14a-8 allows a shareholder that meets certain requirements to use a company’s proxy statement to...
In a game-changing development for the future viability of digital asset securities trading, staff of the Division of Trading and Markets of the SEC issued a No-Action Letter to FINRA on ...
On August 26, the SEC adopted amendments to update the business description, legal proceedings and risk factor disclosures that U.S. companies make in registration statements, annual repo...
