As summer vacation rolls around and hotels, restaurants and other hospitality companies gear up for a busy tourist season, coastal businesses in the U.S. Southeast, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean may be welcoming an unexpected...more
On the heels of record-breaking enforcement in 2022, expect continued aggressive pursuit of Chair Gensler’s priorities in 2023.
The SEC will continue to bring its considerable resources to bear to address ESG-related...more
1/30/2023
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The SEC seeks to regulate trading through internal compliance processes.
The SEC settled insider trading charges in relation to misuse of a Rule 10b5-1 plan established in the name of a British Virgin Islands entity owned...more
1/5/2023
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Affected individuals should review their 10b5-1 plans and Section 16(a) Reporting practices to ensure they comply with the new regulations.
Directors, officers and other persons (other than issuers) cannot maintain more...more
1/5/2023
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The Department of Education has proposed new regulations overhauling Trump-era rules governing how schools must respond to sex-based discrimination.
The proposed rules expand the definitions of sex discrimination,...more
Rule proposals, if adopted, would more closely align de-SPAC mergers with traditional IPOs with respect to disclosure requirements, marketing practices, and gatekeeper obligations.
Proposed Rules would significantly...more
4/18/2022
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As 2021 comes to a close, Chair Gensler caps an ambitious inaugural year by proposing sweeping changes to the availability of Rule 10b5-1 trading plans.
The proposed amendments—in which all five Commissioners joined—are...more
The Internal Revenue Service issues three Revenue Procedures detailing how taxpayers can account for tax-exempt cancellation of indebtedness income arising from forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans in their Federal tax...more