News & Analysis as of

New Rules Publicly-Traded Companies Regulation S-K

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

SEC Adopts New Rules for Climate-Related Disclosures; Lawsuits Challenge New Rules

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

J.S. Held

Crosscurrents: The SEC’s Standardized Climate-Related Disclosures as Adopted

J.S. Held on

After a significant delay, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted its final rule on Wednesday, March 5, 2024, that requires companies who file registration statements and annual reports to disclose material...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Adopts New Rules for Climate-Related Disclosures

On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to adopt new rules mandating climate-related disclosures in public companies’ annual reports and registration statements. While the final rules are...more

McDermott Will & Emery

SEC Imposes New Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements

McDermott Will & Emery on

At an Open Meeting on July 26, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules and amendments that impose new cybersecurity-related disclosure requirements for public companies subject to the...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Rules

Shutts & Bowen LLP on

In yet another indication of the increasing weight being given by government officials to cybersecurity, on July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules requiring public companies to disclose...more

Foley Hoag LLP

SEC Adopts Cyber Regulations

Foley Hoag LLP on

On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules requiring disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents as well as periodic disclosure of cybersecurity risk, management, strategy, and governance...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Adopts Rules for Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance and Incident Disclosure

On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to adopt final rules that are intended to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Adopts Rules on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance and Incident Disclosure by Public Companies

Sullivan & Worcester on

The SEC today adopted rules requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose on an annual basis material information regarding their cybersecurity risk management, strategy...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Adopts Mandatory Pay-versus-Performance Disclosure for 2023 Proxy Statements

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

​​​​​​​The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has adopted final rules requiring additional disclosures on the relationship between executive compensation and financial performance. SEC disclosure counsel should...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Adopts Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rules

Sullivan & Worcester on

On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally adopted amendments to its rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010 and first proposed in 2015 that will require public companies to disclose information...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

SEC Adopts Pay for Performance Rules

Womble Bond Dickinson on

​​​​​​​On August 25, the SEC adopted rules implementing the pay for performance disclosure mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules, originally proposed in 2015 and subject to a reopened comment period earlier this year,...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Adopts Pay-Versus-Performance Disclosure Rules

Sullivan & Worcester on

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules implementing the pay versus performance requirement as required by Congress in the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules will require registrants to disclose, in proxy or...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC Adopts Final Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rule

On August 25, 2022, the SEC adopted a final rule implementing a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 requiring public companies to provide clear disclosure of the relationship between executive compensation and company...more

Morgan Lewis

SEC Finalizes Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rules

Morgan Lewis on

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on August 25, 2022, that it has adopted new rules to require enhanced pay for performance disclosure that will apply to 2023 proxies for calendar year-end issuers....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Disclosing Climate-Related Risks and Metrics Under the SEC’s Proposed Rule

Latham & Watkins LLP on

What the proposed rule would mean for registrants and their filings with the SEC. The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed climate disclosure rule, approved by a 3–1 vote on March 21, 2022, is the agency’s...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Proposes New Rules for Climate-Related Disclosures

On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-1 to propose long-anticipated rules mandating climate-related disclosures in companies’ annual reports and registration statements. The proposed rules...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Regulation S-K Amendments to MD&A - October 2021

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on

As we’ve previously blogged, in November 2020, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to the Regulation S-K items related to Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) as well as certain selected...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

SEC Amends MD&A and Other Financial Disclosure Rules

In November 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted amendments to management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations (“MD&A”) and other financial disclosure...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Expect New SEC Leadership To Require More ESG Reporting

Proskauer Rose LLP on

Public companies should expect more environmental, social and governance-related disclosure requirements, focusing initially on climate risk. An element of President-elect Joe Biden's platform has been "[r]equiring public...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

The SEC’s Enhanced Human Capital Disclosure Requirement: What Companies Should Know

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced a new human capital disclosure requirement for public companies to “reflect the many changes in our capital markets and the domestic and global economy in recent...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Seeks to Encourage Registered Debt Offerings by Amending Financial Statement Requirements

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

On March 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings that include credit enhancements, such as subsidiary guarantees. The final...more

A&O Shearman

Corporate Governance & Securities Law Update: Latin America Edition - October 2019

A&O Shearman on

Below is a summary of the main developments in US and EU corporate governance and securities law and certain financial markets regulation developments since our last update in September 2019. ...more

Fenwick & West LLP

No More CTRs! (and Other SEC Updates to Modernize and Simplify Disclosure for Public Companies)

Fenwick & West LLP on

On March 20, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to existing rules to modernize and simplify its disclosure obligations. The most significant changes relate to the new streamlined process for...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Everything Public Companies Need to Know About Recent SEC Amendments

Nearly a year and a half after proposing them, the SEC recently adopted amendments to disclosure requirements for reporting companies, as mandated by the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the FAST Act). These...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Not so FAST – SEC passes rules to implement FAST Act provisions

On March 20, 2019, the SEC adopted rules (the Rules) to implement certain provisions of the FAST Act. The omnibus highway bill called “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act” or the “FAST Act,” was signed into law in...more

27 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"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