On March 6, 2024, a divided SEC approved climate-related disclosure rules. The new rules will require disclosure of...more
On October 31, 2023, the Fifth Circuit ruled in Chamber of Commerce v. SEC that the SEC acted arbitrarily and capricious, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, when it adopted the new share repurchase disclosure...more
On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules imposing disclosure requirements regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incidents. The new rules, which became effective...more
On May 3, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to its rules that will require additional detail regarding the structure of share repurchase plans or programs and share repurchases by...more
Rulemaking Background - On Dec. 15, 2021, the SEC proposed amendments to the disclosure requirements regarding purchases of equity securities made by or on behalf of an issuer or any affiliated purchaser....more
On May 3, 2023, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted amendments to significantly increase the disclosure required about issuer repurchases of their equity securities that are registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934....more
As part of the SEC's broader rulemaking initiative, on March 9, 2022, the SEC proposed amendments to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by...more
On December 15, the same day it proposed amendments to Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) that may blunt the use of the affirmative defense for insider trading, the Securities and Exchange...more
The staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published nine Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) relating to the Inline XBRL rules adopted in June 2018 and...more
In March 2019, final rules amending Regulation S-K and related rules and forms were adopted. Included in these rules were requirements that registrants use Inline XBRL, a machine-readable computer code, to tag certain...more
Last week, the SEC published guidance regarding Inline XBRL. The SEC adopted rules for Inline XBRL in June 2018. For those of you whose first question is “what is Inline XBRL?”, Inline XBRL allows the XBRL data to be embedded...more
Just before Independence Day, the SEC adopted amendments to its eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) reporting requirements, which will become effective 30 days after their publication in the Federal Register....more
As the end of the year approaches, reporting companies should be aware of the various SEC filing deadlines for 2018. Companies also should be mindful of the 2018 financial statement “staleness” dates (when financial...more