Davis Polk partner Joe Hall and associates Boaz Goldwater and Justin Levine authored the United States chapter in the sixth edition of the Legal 500: Blockchain Comparative Guide. In the ...
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...
Recent Supreme Court decisions show a strong and continued rebalancing of power in the administrative state that has been years in the making. This update outlines what it means for the f...
Davis Polk partner Joe Hall authored “More clarity about digital assets must precede unified regulation” in Bloomberg Law. In the article, Joe discusses the Financial Innovation and T...
In an important step forward, the House is set to vote on a bill that would establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets and offer important protections for customers...
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...
After the SEC failed to remedy the deficiencies in the rule that the court had identified in its recent opinion, the Fifth Circuit vacated the share repurchase rule that the SEC adopted i...
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...
