On March 6, 2024, the SEC announced its long-awaited adoption of final rules regarding climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public offerings (the “Climate Rules”). The SEC dialed back the more prescriptive...more
3/15/2024
/ Business Strategies ,
Climate Change ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Greenwashing ,
Popular ,
Proposed Rules ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
As expected, in the last couple years the ESG disclosure frameworks, including climate-related disclosures, have been moving from voluntary to mandatory. While some standard setters are seeking to streamline reporting,...more
ESG is an acronym and importantly a movement with a viewpoint. It is also an evolving concept which uses the first letters of three words as its name. Those words are Environmental, Social and Governance. ESG is a concept...more
4/24/2023
/ Air Pollution ,
Business Roundtable ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Purpose ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sustainable Business Practices
A key enforcement power of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)—its ability to elect to conduct in-house administrative proceedings before Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) instead of bringing an action in federal...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Staying true to the SEC’s 360 degree approach for advancing the Biden Administration’s ESG agenda, on April 29, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) sued a publicly traded Brazilian company....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The SEC announced a new “human capital” disclosure requirement, to take effect thirty days after publication in the Federal Register. The language of the rule does not give much by way of guidance—on...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The COVID-19 pandemic has already spurred several private securities class action lawsuits and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) enforcement actions. Companies that deal with COVID-19 on a daily...more
6/13/2020
/ Business Disruption ,
Carnival Cruise Lines ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cruise Ships ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Fraud ,
Securities Litigation ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
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