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The New SEC Conflict Minerals Rule: Overcoming the Challenges of Compliance
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently published limited guidance on frequently asked questions relating to the SEC’s new Conflict Mineral Rules, which require U.S. issuers that manufacture or contract to...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted final rules requiring disclosure of the use of “conflict minerals” by public companies, pursuant to a provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...more
The AICPA has issued non-authoritative guidance which provides that auditing an SEC issuer’s financial statements and performing an independent private sector audit of a conflict minerals report would not be inconsistent with...more
On May 30, the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued responses to frequently asked questions regarding the disclosure of conflict mineral usage and payments by resource extraction...more
On May 30, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance related to the requirement that issuers disclose the use of conflict minerals in their products, as mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...more
In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; International; and Upcoming Hearings. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - And the beat goes on… Another week with the White...more
In this issue: - SEC Issues FAQs on Conflict Minerals and Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers - Delaware Chancery Court Applies Business Judgment Rule to Going Private Transaction with Controlling...more
The CFPB Amends Ability-to-Repay and Qualified Mortgage Standards - On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”) issued amendments to Regulation Z, which implements the Truth in Lending...more
The staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued long-awaited guidance on two of the more controversial provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act — the conflict minerals...more
FAQs address issues pertaining to the scope and application of the conflict minerals reporting requirement. On May 30, the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued interpretive guidance on the...more
On May 30, 2013, the staff (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) regarding certain disclosures required under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...more
More than 50 investor groups released a statement expressing their disagreement with the lawsuit filed against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of...more
On May 30, 2013 the SEC released 12 FAQs relating to disclosure regarding the use of conflict minerals, and nine FAQs relating to disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers. Disclosure of the use of conflict...more
On May 30, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance released twelve Frequently Asked Questions in an effort to provide issuers with guidance on various aspects of Exchange Act Section 1...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the Commission or SEC) Division of Corporation Finance provided answers to questions regarding the Commission’s rules adopted in response to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more
On May 30, 2013, the SEC Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) issued responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs) on various aspects of the reporting requirements regarding conflict minerals originating in the...more
The SEC has issued twelve frequently asked questions, or FAQs, on the conflict minerals rules....more
In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; House of Representatives; Executive Branch; Miscellaneous; and Upcoming Hearings. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - The week began with...more
We previously noted that the challenge to the SEC’s conflict minerals rules was transferred from the Court of Appeals to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia....more
On May 2, Lona Nallengara and Shelley E. Parratt, the acting director and the deputy director, respectively, of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, participated in a roundtable...more
IN THE ISSUE: - The Legal Challenge to the SEC’s Conflict Minerals Reporting Regulations: In the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the United States Congress required, inter alia, the SEC to promulgate regulations requiring...more
The SEC has adopted a rule requiring SEC reporting companies to provide disclosures about conflict minerals that are "necessary to the functionality or production of a product manufactured by the company." Conflict minerals...more
As previously noted, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently dismissed a challenge to the SEC’s resource extraction rules for lack of jurisdiction. The case was left to proceed pursuant to a previously...more
The SEC recently filed its initial brief in the case pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in which the National Association of Manufacturers, United States Chamber of Commerce, and Business...more
In This Issue: - TRANSACTIONAL: - Project Development/FinanceKey Considerations in Energy Take-or-Pay Contracts - Upstream - Russia and former republics Unconventional Russia - Bankruptcy:...more
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