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...
To help navigate what has been an active year of new SEC disclosure mandates, we have prepared an overview of key considerations for preparing your 2023 annual report on Form 10-K.
This client update highlights key considerations for the preparation of your 2023 annual report on Form 20-F. As in previous years, we discuss both disclosure developments and continued a...
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...
