False Claims Act Insights - If Everything Matters, Nothing Does: Parsing Materiality in FCA Disputes
Podcast: Non-binding Guidance: SEC Disclosure Issues for Life Sciences Companies
Life Sciences Quarterly (Q3 2019): SEC Enforcement and Class Actions Regarding FDA Communications
On June 24, 2024, the SEC released five new CDIs on Material Cybersecurity Incidents. Please see a high-level summary below...more
On May 21, 2024, Erik Gerding, director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued a statement with clarifying guidance on cybersecurity incident disclosure under Item...more
On May 21, 2024, the Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a statement providing guidance on the use of Item 1.05 of Form 8-K to disclose cybersecurity incidents....more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance Director Erik Gerding released a statement on May 21, 2024, addressing Disclosure of Cybersecurity Incidents Determined to be Material and...more
On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed expansive and controversial climate disclosure rules. Two years and 24,000 comment letters later, on March 6, 2024, the SEC voted 3-2 to adopt its...more
In July 2023, the SEC adopted new cybersecurity rules for the stated purpose of enhancing and standardizing disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incidents by public companies. The...more
In less than three months, public companies and certain foreign private companies will have to take additional steps after cybersecurity breaches: deciding whether an incident meets the materiality threshold that requires...more
On June 11, 2021, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) announced that it would focus on cybersecurity disclosures made by public companies as part of its regulatory agenda. Given the SEC’s...more
The SEC has issued new guidance it believes will assist public companies both in assessing materiality and in drafting disclosure related to risks to technology and intellectual property that may result from conducting...more
Orrick has published a Second Edition of our booklet titled "Disclosure Obligations of Issuers of Municipal Securities." In addition to updating for certain new S.E.C. Rules, the Second Edition contains a new chapter...more