This client update highlights key considerations for the preparation of your 2024 annual report on Form 20-F. As in previous years, we discuss both disclosure developments and continued a...
Companies continue to have their hands full addressing new disclosure mandates against the backdrop of an active SEC enforcement agenda. We address related disclosure implications and oth...
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...
A court rendered a mixed result in the SEC’s SolarWinds litigation. The court declined to dismiss the SEC’s claims that a website “Security Statement” overstated the strength of S...
The need for financial statements is one of the items most likely to become a gating issue in a capital markets transaction. SEC rules require the company issuing securities to present au...
Changes from the proposal include elimination of Scope 3 disclosures, scaled back attestation requirements, additional materiality qualifiers and narrower financial statement triggers. Gi...
The SEC backpedaled on its proposed rules that would have expanded the scope of underwriter liability and included a new safe harbor under the Investment Company Act of 1940. But the fina...
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...
