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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Dual registrant regulatory roundup - September 2024

Welcome to the Regulatory Roundup. Each month, Eversheds Sutherland Investment Services attorneys review significant regulatory developments (including notable rulemakings and guidance from securities regulators) from the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Multinationals Face Challenges as They Prepare To Comply With the EU’s Sustainability Reporting Law

As the deadlines approach for multinationals to make their first disclosures under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the EU’s new sustainability reporting law, they are confronting the significant time...more

Conyers

Shifting Sands: The Future of Offshore Regulatory Disputes (Part 1)

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As an evolving area of commercial disputes in the Cayman Islands, global enforcement trends provide us with valuable insight into the types of regulatory proceedings on the horizon for offshore jurisdictions. In this first...more

Crunched Credit

Regulatory Contagion

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Last year, I wrote a commentary entitled Contagion.  That commentary was inspired by the early days of the meltdown of the crypto currency market (long before SBF made the whole space way more notorious with a whiff of...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

The Road to Net Zero: Core Principles to Prevent Greenwashing

“Net zero” is a topic as hot as the climate these days. With so much regulatory attention being placed on it, companies that do not communicate their net zero efforts appropriately or, worse, intentionally make false and...more

Alston & Bird

Sustainability Spotlight – Q1 2024

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Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Sustainability Spotlight, your place to keep up with all the ESG action – federal and state enforcement, shareholder proposals and litigation, and state attorney general actions. ...more

Mintz

Congressional Democrats Urge SEC Action on Climate Disclosures

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On June 4, 2024, a number of Congressional Democrats (10 Senators; 28 Congressmen) sent a letter to Chairman Gensler of the Securities & Exchange Commission, urging that the SEC “enforce[] [] existing SEC climate...more

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

Midyear observations on the board agenda - Based on insights from the 2024 Board Leadership Conference

Approaching midyear, business leaders are bullish on growth and the opportunities ahead. At the same time, the macro forces of GenAI, climate change, a multipolar geopolitical landscape and the erosion of trust and healthy...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Understanding ESG Ratings: Legal Insights & Perspectives

With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles garnering increased attention in corporate circles in recent years, there has been an accompanying rise in demand for analytical products that evaluate companies’...more

Hicks Johnson

With the SEC’s New Climate Disclosure Rules on Pause, What Should Registrants Expect?

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On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to adopt final rules requiring registrants to disclose climate-related information in their registration statements and period reports (the Rules), two...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Voluntarily Pauses Implementation of Climate Disclosure Rules Amid Legal Challenges

Today, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) voluntarily stayed its recently issued Climate Disclosure Rules.   The SEC hopes the voluntary stay will facilitate the resolution of the current Eighth Circuit challenge...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: SEC Adopts Final Rules for Climate-Related Disclosures as Controversy and Challenges Loom

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On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an adopting release (Release Nos. 33-11275 and 34-99678), entitled The Enhancement and Standardization of ClimateRelated Disclosures for Investors (the...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

New SEC Climate Disclosure Rules – Temporarily Stayed

On March 15, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a stay of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new climate-disclosure rules, which were adopted March 6. The three-judge panel granted the requests...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

Examining the SEC’s Slew of Recent Rules and Amendments

In a wave of SEC rulemaking this past year, representing a “new world order” event akin to Dodd-Frank, the SEC has provided itself with a fresh set of tools to increase regulatory and enforcement scrutiny on private funds....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

A Guide to the SEC's New Climate Disclosure Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted climate disclosure rules which will require registrants to disclose detailed new climate-related disclosures in annual reports and registration...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

US Appeals Court Temporarily Halts SEC's Climate Change Disclosure Rules

On March 15, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted an administrative stay of the climate-related disclosure rules recently adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The SEC rules...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

Perkins Coie

The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Has Arrived: Scope 3 Is Out—But What Is In?

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After nearly two years of public comments and deliberation, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a Final Rule on Mandatory Climate Disclosures (Final Rule). While less sweeping than initially proposed,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Update on SEC Climate Change Rules

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In a never ending saga to the climate disclosure rules, on March 15, the Fifth Circuit temporarily stayed the recently adopted climate change disclosure rules....more

Fenwick & West LLP

The SEC Adopts Final Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the SEC adopted final rules (Final Rules) requiring extensive climate-related disclosures in companies’ annual reports and registration statements. The new rules are set forth in Release No. 33-11275. The...more

McDermott Will & Emery

SEC Adopts Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Rules: What Public Companies, Executives and Investors Need to Know

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new climate-related risk disclosure rules on March 6, 2024, two years after the SEC proposed new climate-related disclosure rules and three years after the SEC first...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SEC Adopts Landmark Climate Disclosure Rules

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 6, 2024, adopted a new slate of standardized climate-related disclosure rules for public companies and foreign private issuers. Adopted by a 3-2 vote, the final rules...more

A&O Shearman

SEC adopts climate-related disclosure regime covering all registrants

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New rules reflect significant concessions in response to public comments, but compliance will require careful consideration and significant investment by SEC registrants. - Scope 3 emissions disclosure not required for...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Preparing to Comply with the SEC’s New Climate Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules relating to climate-related risks, which are available here. The new rules will require extensive new disclosures, which in turn will require...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

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