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New SEC Disclosures for Payments to Governments by Oil, Natural Gas, and Mining Companies: FAQs

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New SEC Disclosures for Payments to Governments by Oil, Natural Gas, and Mining Companies - What so-called resource extraction issuers need to know ahead of the September 26, 2024 deadline. ...more

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The Heat Is On SEC’s Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new final rules requiring issuers to include extensive disclosure in registration statements and periodic reports regarding material...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC Adopts Long-Anticipated Rules for SPACs: Considerations for Market Participants and SEC Enforcement Objectives in the New...

The rules, originally proposed in March 2022, realign disclosures, marketing practices and other obligations in de-SPAC transactions more closely with traditional IPOs and add increased risk and uncertainty for market...more

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SEC Climate Disclosure Rule: Timing Uncertain as Legal Challenges Move to Eighth Circuit

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) faces an uncertain timeline to implement its new climate disclosure rule, as nine legal challenges have now been transferred to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth...more

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Highlights of new SEC rules on climate-related disclosures

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On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted its highly anticipated rules requiring climate-related disclosures. The final rules represent a significantly less burdensome set of rules than those...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

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Securities and Exchange Commission Pay Versus Performance Updates

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Seyfarth Synopsis:  As reporting companies prepare their Pay Versus Performance (PVP) disclosures for their upcoming proxy statements, they should take into consideration the most recent guidance on the topic in Securities...more

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

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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

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SEC Adopts Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures

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On March 6, 2024, in a 3-2 vote along party lines, the SEC adopted the long-awaited final rules on climate-related disclosures. The proposed rules faced intense public scrutiny over the last two years, with the SEC receiving...more

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SEC Issues Final Climate Risk Disclosure Rules

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The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final climate risk disclosure rules on March 6, 2024, nearly two years after the controversial proposed rules generated intense interest and debate. The Enhancement and...more

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SEC Issues Final Rule on Climate Disclosures

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In an open meeting on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved in a 3-2 vote a Final Rule on climate disclosures that will “require registrants to provide certain climate-related...more

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SEC’s New Rules for Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure Go into Effect

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On December 18, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new rules enhancing and standardizing disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by companies who...more

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Get Ready for SEC Final Rule on Climate Disclosures

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More than a year and a half after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its controversial and groundbreaking Proposed Rule for the disclosure of climate-related risks, its much-anticipated release of the Final...more

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Prepare to Comply with SEC’s Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules

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Beginning with quarters ending on or after October 1, 2023, most US-listed issuers will be required to make more extensive disclosures on their share repurchase programs and insider transactions proximate to a program’s...more

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New SEC Cybersecurity Rules Require Mandatory Disclosure

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On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules imposing disclosure requirements regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incidents. The new rules, which became effective...more

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Key Actions for Public Companies under the SEC's New Cybersecurity Rules

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On July 26, 2023, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a final rule intended to augment and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, governance, and incident reporting. The new rule imposes...more

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Twelve Planning Tips to Avoid Complications with the SEC’s Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules: Part I

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Key Point: To avoid inadvertently increasing enforcement and litigation risks, companies should consider these suggestions to minimize headaches with the SEC’s final rules that mandate (a) disclosures in annual report of...more

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Although Scaled Back, the SEC’s Newly Adopted Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule Will Require Significant Effort by Public Companies to...

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As a significant step in its ongoing initiatives on the disclosure, management, and oversight of cybersecurity risks and incidents, on July 26, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) adopted rules...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

SEC New Pay Versus Performance Disclosures – They Are Here!

Background - On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules implementing the pay versus performance disclosure required by Section 935(a) of Dodd-Frank, effective for executive...more

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SEC Adopts Final Executive Compensation Clawback Rules: What This Means and How to Prepare

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On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules that will require public companies to implement policies to recover, or claw back, erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation from...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Pay Versus Performance Disclosure for Smaller Reporting Companies - An SRC-Focused Analysis of the SEC’s Pay Versus Performance...

We issued a step-by-step guide entitled An Analysis of the SEC’s Pay Versus Performance Rules on December 14, 2022. We prepared that guide to assist our clients as they prepare to implement the SEC’s new “Pay Versus...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Capital Markets - 2023 SEC Filing Deadlines and Financial Statement Staleness Deadlines

To prepare for 2023, reporting companies should be aware of applicable SEC filing deadlines and financial statement “staleness” dates, as well as regulatory reforms that may affect the preparation and contents of disclosures...more

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SEC Adopts Final Rules Regarding 10b5-1 Trading Plans and Disclosure of Insider Trading Policies and Related Matters

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On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules (1) adding new conditions applicable to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, (2) requiring disclosure of insider trading policies and...more

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SEC Issues Long-Awaited Rule on Clawback of Executive Compensation

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On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted Rule 10D-1, a rule requiring companies to recover erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation based on mistakes in the companies’ financial...more

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SEC Adopts Pay Versus Performance Compensation Disclosure Requirements

On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted rules that amend Item 402 of Regulation S-K to require reporting companies to disclose information detailing the relationship between a company’s...more

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