As part of its efforts to remove reliance on and references to credit ratings from its rules and forms as required by Section 939A of Dodd-Frank, the SEC has issued proposed rules that wo...
The Delaware Chancery Court, in an opinion written by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster, recently declined to find that a series of four spin-off and split-off transactions by Liberty Medi...
The U.S. SEC has issued a no-action letter confirming that non-U.S. issuers that file financial statements in IFRS as issued by the IASB will not be required to provide financial statemen...
In response to requirements in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the SEC issued proposed rules today that would revise the Form S-3 and Form F-3 transaction e...
In a January 2010 memorandum titled “Acquisition Financing in 2010 - Trends from 2009”, we considered the state of acquisition finance in 2009 and drew some tentative conclusions abou...
Although the past year has not seen a wholesale revision in the rules applicable to Form 10-Ks and proxy statements, there have been a handful of rule changes and the SEC staff has issued...
The SEC has proposed rules that would implement the requirements of Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act. This Section is already in effect and calls for ope...
The SEC has proposed rules that implement Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act which requires companies that file Exchange Act reports, whether U.S. companie...
Yesterday the SEC announced and issued proposed rules that would implement the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules attempt to advance the Act’s goal of encouragin...
