News & Analysis as of

Corporate Governance Registration Statement Disclosure Requirements

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

SEC Climate Rules Create Unique Challenges For CRE

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on

On March 6, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted long-awaited final rules detailing climate-related disclosures required of public companies in their annual reports and registration statements. Originally...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

[Webinar] SEC Climate Disclosures - March 27th, 9:00 am - 10:00 am PT

Please join us for a practical session on the requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) final climate-related disclosure rules and considerations for companies navigating these disclosures. On...more

Goodwin

The Coming Storm: Preparing for The SEC's Final Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

Goodwin on

On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules that will require expansive new climate-related disclosures in Form 10-K and Form 20-F annual reports and most registration statements....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

SEC Adopts Final Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

Latham & Watkins LLP on

On March 6, 2024, in a 3-2 vote, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules requiring registrants to disclose certain climate-related information in registration statements and annual reports. ...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Survey: Companies Preparing to Comply with SEC’s Proposed Climate Disclosure Rule Even Though Not Final

According to a new survey, most large companies are preparing to comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed climate disclosure rule even though it is not final, but many business leaders are concerned...more

Morgan Lewis

Japan Introduces Mandatory ESG Disclosures for Public Companies

Morgan Lewis on

The Japan Financial Services Agency has proposed a hard law amendment that will provide an additional environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information source for asset managers investing in Japanese listed companies,...more

Jones Day

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Releases Proposed Rule on Climate Risk Disclosure

Jones Day on

As previously reported, on March 21, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") proposed amendments to Regulations S-K and S-X that would require registrants to provide certain climate-related information in...more

Jenner & Block

The SEC’s Proposed Climate-Related Disclosure Rules: Are They the “Core Bargain,” a “Watershed Moment,” or “Undermin[ing] the...

Jenner & Block on

Earlier last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the issuance of proposed new disclosure rules [cited as “PR, p. __”], titled The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

SEC Proposes Broad New Climate Change Disclosure Requirements

In a 500-page release, the SEC has proposed significant new public company climate change disclosure requirements for both domestic companies and foreign private issuers, including the actual and potential impacts of climate...more

Jenner & Block

The SEC’s Proposed Climate-Related Disclosure Rules: Are They the “Core Bargain, ” a “Watershed Moment, ” or “Undermin[ing] the...

Jenner & Block on

Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the issuance of proposed new disclosure rules [cited as “PR, p. __”], titled The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Proposes Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures

The SEC has proposed rules that would require registrants to provide certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports. The proposed rules would require information about a registrant’s...more

Goodwin

SEC Adopts Third Round of Disclosure Modernization

Goodwin on

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted the third group of amendments to its disclosure requirements, originally proposed in August 2019 and discussed in an earlier Goodwin client alert. The amendments, which are...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

SEC Adopts a More Principles-Based Approach to Public Company Disclosure Requirements

Proskauer Rose LLP on

On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to Regulation S-K that simplify and modernize the disclosure requirements relating to description of business, legal proceedings, and risk factors,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Votes to Adopt Rule Amendments to Modernize Disclosures of Business, Legal Proceedings, and Risk Factors Under Regulation S-K

On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt amendments that modernize the description of business (Item 101), legal proceedings (Item 103) and risk factor disclosures (Item 105) that...more

WilmerHale

SEC Refreshes Its Business, Legal Proceedings and Risk Factor Disclosure Requirements

WilmerHale on

The business world has changed a lot in the last three decades, and, as a result of recent amendments to Item 101 of Regulation S-K, the description of a company’s business included in registration statements and periodic...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Publishes Risk Alert with Observations from Examinations of Mutual Funds, Money Market Funds, and Target Date Funds

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

On November 7, 2019, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) published a Risk Alert highlighting the most often cited deficiencies and weaknesses observed in recent examinations of registered...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SEC Proposes to Modernize, Improve, and Simplify Disclosure Framework Under Regulation S-K

Ballard Spahr LLP on

On August 8, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) voted to propose rule amendments to modernize the description of business, legal proceedings, and risk factor disclosures that public companies are required...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Proposes to Modernize Business, Legal Proceeding and Risk Factor Disclosure Requirements Under Regulation S-K

On August 8, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced proposed amendments to modernize the rules requiring description of business, legal proceeding and risk factor disclosures pursuant to Regulation S-K....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

12 Things You Need to Know About Drafting Management & Discussion Analysis (MD&A)

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on

While developments with respect to the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A) section in SEC disclosure documents has garnered less attention in the legal press in recent...more

A&O Shearman

Governance & Securities Law Focus: Latin America Edition - November 2018

A&O Shearman on

This newsletter provides a snapshot of the principal US and selected international governance and securities law developments during the third quarter of 2018 that may be of interest to Latin American corporations and...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

SEC Expands Nonpublic Draft Registration Statement Processing Procedures

New Policy Provides Substantial Flexibility for Non-EGC and Foreign Issuers, Direct Listings, and Select Follow-On Transactions - On June 29, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

U.S. Capital Markets Regulation and Practices: An Overview for Non-U.S. Companies

Capital markets in the United States provide an unparalleled source of investment capital, measured in trillions of dollars, for companies located outside the United States. For non-U.S. companies (which we refer to in this...more

22 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide