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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

HKEx Announces Consultation Conclusion for New Treasury Shares Rules

查看中文 In its conclusions to a market consultation process held in late 2023, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx) has announced it will permit listed companies to hold their own shares as treasury shares and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Newly Proposed Regulations on Stock Buyback Excise Tax Largely Adopt Approach From Initial IRS Guidance

On April 12, 2024, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (89 FR 25980 and 89 FR 25829) on the excise tax on stock buybacks enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Court Invalidates SEC's Share Repurchase Disclosure Requirements

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On November 22, 2023, the SEC postponed its new share repurchase disclosure rules in response to an adverse decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case challenging those rules under the Administrative Procedure...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Fifth Circuit Vacates SEC Rules for Share Repurchase Disclosure

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We had previously reported that beginning with the next annual report on Form 10-K, most US-listed issuers would be required to make more extensive disclosures on their share repurchase programs and insider transactions...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Public Companies & the Law

Fifth Circuit Vacates SEC Buyback Disclosure Rule

On December 19, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the SEC’s share repurchase disclosure rule, which required issuers to: (i) report daily aggregate share repurchase data on a quarterly basis, (ii) indicate if...more

Harris Beach PLLC

SEC Rulemaking 2023 - An Overview

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In 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continued its trend of recent years of robust and significant rulemaking that affects the range of players in the securities industry — public companies, broker-dealers,...more

Perkins Coie

Preparing for the 2024 Public Company Reporting Season

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In anticipation of the upcoming reporting season, this Update highlights some of the most significant rule changes, guidance, institutional investor areas of focus, and trends for public companies to consider in preparing...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Requirement for Enhanced Share Repurchase Disclosures in Periodic Reports Delayed

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On November 22, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order postponing the effective date for the new share Repurchase Rule (88 Fed. Reg. 36002 (June 1, 2023)) pending further SEC action. The SEC’s...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

SEC Postpones Share Repurchase Modernization Disclosure Rules

On November 22, 2023, the SEC issued an order postponing the effective date of rules that would require issuers to include detailed disclosures in periodic reports related to their share repurchases (the “Repurchase Rule”)....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Turkeys Pardoned – New Share Repurchase Rule Delayed – Is It That Simple? (What About Those Issuer 10b5-1 Plan Disclosures?)

Yes – a Thanksgiving tradition continued last week when President Biden pardoned turkeys Liberty and Bell from what would otherwise have been an unpleasant Thanksgiving experience....more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Postpones Share Repurchase Rule

As previously reported, on October 31, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that the process used by the SEC in adopting its share repurchase modernization rules violated the Administrative...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

[Webinar] 5th Annual Corporate & Securities Counsel Public Company Forum - December 12th, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm CST

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Please join us for our 5th Annual Corporate & Securities Counsel Public Company Forum. This virtual half-day program will feature panel discussions focused on timely and practical guidance related to the latest developments...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Stays Share Repurchase Final Rule

On November 22, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has issued an order to postpone the effective date of its final share repurchase disclosure rule (the “Share Repurchase Final Rule”).  The Share...more

A&O Shearman

SEC Postpones Effective Date of New Stock Buyback Disclosure Requirements

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that it has issued an order postponing the effective date of its Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rule and, as a result, the rule is stayed pending further...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

SEC Stays Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules

On November 22, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it issued an order postponing the effective date of the share repurchase disclosure rule (Repurchase Rule).[1] The Repurchase Rule was...more

BakerHostetler

SEC Amendments Requiring Enhanced Share Repurchase Disclosure Hang in the Balance After Federal Appeals Court Directs SEC To...

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A federal appeals court has directed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to rework certain regulatory amendments, adopted in May 2023, requiring public companies to provide enhanced disclosures on repurchases of...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Fifth Circuit Requires SEC to Revisit Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules

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On October 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) issued an opinion finding that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) violated the Administration Procedure Act when adopting recent...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Share Repurchase Rule Suffers Legal Setback

As previously reported, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments earlier this year to modernize existing disclosure requirements relating to companies’ repurchases of their equity securities. For...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Prepare to Comply with SEC’s Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules

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Beginning with quarters ending on or after October 1, 2023, most US-listed issuers will be required to make more extensive disclosures on their share repurchase programs and insider transactions proximate to a program’s...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC adopts rules to expand, modernize share repurchase disclosure

On May 3, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released final rules requiring enhanced disclosure relating to issuers' repurchases of their securities and executives’ trading thereof (the Repurchase...more

BCLP

Jump Start on Disclosure Changes and Updates for Q2 2023 SEC Filings

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As we near June 30, 2023, companies are advised to get a jump start on disclosure changes and possible updates to upcoming Form 10-Qs (or Form 10-Ks in the case of non-calendar year companies). The SEC recently updated the...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Adopts Amendments to Modernize Share Repurchase Disclosure

On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to modernize existing disclosure requirements relating to companies’ repurchases of their equity securities that are registered under Section 12...more

WilmerHale

Preparing for New Issuer Repurchase Disclosures

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In May 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) amended its rules to significantly increase the disclosures public companies must make about repurchases of their equity securities. The recent amendments are the...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

SEC Sued Over Newly Adopted Share Repurchase Rules

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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

SEC Amends Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules

On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to increase disclosures for issuer repurchases of shares or other equity securities that are registered under Section 12 of the Securities...more

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