On March 15, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a stay of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new climate-disclosure rules, which were adopted March 6. The three-judge panel granted the requests...more
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted its highly anticipated climate-related disclosure rules. The rules faced public scrutiny since their proposal two years ago, with the SEC receiving more than...more
3/15/2024
/ Business Strategies ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
New Rules ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Regulation S-X ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
Although the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not yet adopted the highly-anticipated final rules on climate change disclosure, in the second quarter of 2023 the SEC continued its heated pace of rulemaking....more
6/27/2023
/ Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Final Rules ,
Form 10-K ,
Insider Trading ,
New Rules ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proposed Rules ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rule 10b-5 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Trading Plans
On Friday, May 12, 2023, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced that it had filed a lawsuit against the SEC to prevent implementation of the SEC’s new Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rules, which KMK has recently...more
5/18/2023
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Appeals ,
Biden Administration ,
Class Action ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement ,
New Rules ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Repurchase Agreements ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Stock Repurchases ,
U.S. Commerce Department
On December 14, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission amended insider trading rules by adopting new trading restrictions and disclosures to address potential abuses by executives. According to SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s...more