We recently published a survey of corporate governance practices adopted by companies in their IPOs
. Our survey concluded that IPO companies continue to adopt charter provisions such as...
Last Wednesday, the SEC issued a proposal aimed at eliminating or updating duplicative, overlapping and obsolete disclosure requirements. The proposal is welcome, but largely technical in...
Spurred by a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, in August 2012 the SEC adopted rules requiring companies to disclose payments made to governments in order to further oil, natural ga...
On June 16, the SEC proposed rules aimed at overhauling and modernizing disclosure requirements for companies with material mining operations (excluding oil and gas) as part of its ongoin...
With ongoing pressure on companies that are past the IPO stage to update or modify their corporate governance practices to align with the views of some shareholders and proxy advisory fir...
On May 17, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance released new and revised Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) on the use of non-GAAP financial measures. C...
On May 3, the SEC approved rule amendments that will make it easier for many private companies to remain private, and easier for some public financial companies to terminate their SEC rep...
Last week, the SEC issued a concept release, a forerunner to potential rulemaking, seeking public comment on modernizing the disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K, the central source ...
On December 11, the SEC once again proposed rules to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act relating to resource extraction issuers. Section 1504 generally provides that a U.S. or f...
Yesterday, conference committee members for the House and Senate agreed on a five-year transportation bill. While this type of legislation is rarely of interest to participants in the cap...
