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Publicly-Traded Companies Securities Regulation Regulatory Reform

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Starting July 31, 2024, Large Accelerated Filers Are Required To Tag Filing Fee Exhibits Using Inline XBRL

Companies engaged in certain transactions, including registered securities offerings, tender offers, and mergers and acquisitions, are required to prepare and file a separate filing fee exhibit as part of their transactional...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Special Report: Primarily Non-Financial Corporate Reporting: Climate Change

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Version 2.0 following publication of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Climate-Related Disclosure Rules - A wave of new legislation and regulation in the U.S. and Europe has the potential to...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

The SEC Finally Adopts Climate Change Disclosure Rules: Making Sense of 800+ Pages

After almost two years following its proposed rules, on March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules to require public companies to disclose certain climate-related information in...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

Panicked Over Cyber Disclosure Laws? Here’s a Plea for Common Sense

Corporate legal departments are scrambling to stay ahead of the latest developments around cyber incident disclosure rules and regulations. In hopes of reducing panic and distress, a pair of legal experts are issuing a...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

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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Adopts Amendments for Reporting Beneficial Ownership on Schedules 13D and 13G

On October 10, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted changes to Schedules 13D and 13G relating to beneficial ownership reports (the “Amendments”). The Amendments are intended to modernize the...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Adopts Changes to Schedule 13D and Schedule 13G

On October 10, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted final rules amending Schedules 13D and 13G under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) to update reporting rules...more

Carlton Fields

SEC Deals New Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements to Public Companies

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On July 26, 2023, the SEC adopted new cybersecurity rules, which have two top-line impacts. First, registrants must disclose material cybersecurity incidents promptly on Form 8-K. Second, registrants must disclose new...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Adopts Amendments to the Investment Company Names Rule (Rule 35d-1)

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On September 20, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted amendments to Rule 35d-1[1] (the “Names Rule”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as well as amendments to certain...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Waivers of Code of Conduct for Nasdaq Listed Companies

On September 5, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) posted and declared effective a Nasdaq rule proposal modifying requirements related to a waiver of the code of conduct in Listing Rules 5610 and...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted the final rules (the “Final Rules”) on July 26, 2023 that will require disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents, cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and...more

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SEC Adopts Cybersecurity Incident and Risk Management Disclosure Rules

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On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new rules requiring public companies to disclose within four business days material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose annually...more

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SEC Formalizes New Rules on Cyber Breach Disclosures

The SEC has recently voted on new rules that will require companies to disclose material cybersecurity incidents within four days and to make disclosures about their broad cybersecurity risks in their annual report. Tom Fox...more

Troutman Pepper

SEC Adopts Final Cybersecurity Rules — Requires Companies to Focus on their Security and Disclosure Plans

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On July 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted, by a 3-2 margin, a final rule to require more immediate disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents by public companies. In addition, the final rule...more

Epstein Becker & Green

SEC Finalizes Cybersecurity Rule: What It Means

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On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted its long-anticipated cybersecurity reporting rule (the “Final Rule”). The Final Rule applies to public companies subject to the reporting requirements...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Rules for Public Companies

In a 3-2 vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new cybersecurity rules yesterday (July 26, 2023) applicable to public companies. The rules, which will become effective thirty days after publication in...more

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SEC’s New Cyber Incident Disclosure Requirements Will Go Into Effect in December

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Come December 2023, public companies will have a very narrow window to report cybersecurity incidents that materially affect their companies. Companies will also have to report annually how they assess and manage...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Upcoming SEC Open Meeting on Cyber (and More)

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced an open meeting to be held on July 26, 2023.  The agenda includes consideration of the final amendments to the rules relating to enhanced and standardized disclosures regarding...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Companies Face Increasing Scrutiny Over Their ESG Disclosures — Including by ESG Critics

Key Points As public interest and scrutiny into environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues continue to rise, companies face an ever-evolving landscape relating to their ESG disclosures. The Securities and Exchange...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Approves NYSE and Nasdaq Clawback Listing Standards

As previously reported, NYSE and Nasdaq filed proposed listing standards with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) earlier this year to implement the SEC’s rule requiring most publicly traded companies to adopt a...more

Troutman Pepper

New Disclosure Requirements for Public REITs' Share Repurchases

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On May 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final amendments that call for certain quantitative and qualitative disclosure requirements with respect to repurchases of an issuer’s equity securities that are...more

Holland & Knight LLP

NYSE, Nasdaq Amend Proposed Listing Standards Related to Clawbacks

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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 5, 2023, filed an amendment to its incentive compensation clawback listing standard originally proposed in February 2023. The Nasdaq Stock Market followed suit and filed an analogous...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

NYSE and NASDAQ Propose October 2, 2023 Effective Date to Clawback Listing Standards

On June 5, 2023, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) filed an amendment to its proposed Dodd-Frank clawback listing policy providing for an effective date of October 2, 2023. Similarly, on June 6, 2023, Nasdaq filed an...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Greenhouse Gas Disclosure Mandates Advance in California Legislature; SEC Remains Silent

Two bills that would require climate-related disclosures from specified companies doing business in California advanced in the Legislature this week. SB 253 (Wiener) and SB 261 (Stern) passed the Senate Judiciary Committee...more

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