Richard D. Truesdell, Jr.

With new leadership at the SEC, companies have had to grapple less with disclosure mandates and more with macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds. We address related disclosure implicati...

With the shutdown quickly moving into its fourth week, we discuss our views on key questions impacting IPOs and other capital markets transactions.

Davis Polk sought guidance from the SEC to pave the way for companies to go public during the shutdown.

With little time left to avoid a potential government shutdown, we provide key SEC shutdown practice points for public companies and capital markets transactions.

The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has announced improvements to its policies for draft registration statements that will be welcomed by both companies and underwriters.

Our 2024 IPO corporate governance survey reviews governance structures at the time of IPO for U.S.-listed IPOs of “controlled” and non-“controlled” companies between October 1, 20...

Vacating the SEC’s order approving Nasdaq’s board diversity rules has implications for the climate rule.

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...

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.

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.