On March 6, 2024, two years after the issuance of a proposing release and following more than 24,000 comment letters and 4,500 unique letters submitted in response, by a vote of 3-2, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more
3/14/2024
/ Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Form 10-K ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-X ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
In 2013, Delaware passed legislation adopting a new corporate form, the public benefit corporation (PBC), with a view to allowing directors of for-profit corporations to take actions not just in pursuit of stockholder...more
9/4/2020
/ B Corporation ,
Capital Markets ,
Disclosure ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
For-Profit Corporations ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investing Companies ,
Performance and Accountability Report ,
Popular ,
Public Benefits ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stockholder Agreements
California’s Assembly Bill (“AB”) 979 is set to make waves both within the state and across the country as a groundbreaking new law that would require companies to diversify their boards and reserve seats for directors from...more
On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced, as part of its ongoing initiative to modernize Regulation S-K disclosure, amendments that add human capital resources as a separate disclosure topic,...more
9/1/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Human Capital ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Public Safety ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Workplace Safety