A roundup of the principal new rules and amendments promulgated by the SEC in 2020 that public companies with December 31 fiscal years should consider when preparing their Annual Reports on Form 10-K for 2020. Public...more
Note: We updated this post (originally posted last week) to add a new frequently asked question about expanded hyperlinking. The questions and answers below address certain interpretive issues on the SEC’s new hyperlink...more
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
On March 20, 2019, nearly a year and a half after proposing them, the SEC adopted amendments to disclosure requirements for reporting companies, as mandated by the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST...more
On October 11, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose amendments to modernize and simplify disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K and related rules and forms to reduce the costs and...more
This past spring, the SEC issued final rules designed to make it easier to access and retrieve exhibits to company filings through the use of hyperlinks. For most companies, this new requirement becomes effective for filings...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new rules requiring hyperlinked exhibits in SEC filings will be effective for most public companies on September 1, 2017....more
“For any person using the internet, it is nearly unthinkable for a web page to indicate that more information is available and not to include a hyperlink to such information.” While it seems unthinkable to today’s internet...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s final rules requiring hyperlinking of exhibits to SEC filings will be effective for most public companies on September 1, 2017. This update summarizes the final rules, answers the top...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) approved rule changes that are designed to facilitate easier and more efficient access to documents that are listed as exhibits to certain SEC filings. For...more
Beginning September 1, public companies will need to comply with SEC rule amendments requiring that reports and registration statements filed on or after that date...more
Beginning September 1, 2017, rules adopted in March 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require companies to include active hyperlinks to exhibits in most reports filed with the SEC under the Securities...more
Beginning September 1, 2017, registration statements and periodic and current reports that are subject to the Reg S-K Item 601 exhibit requirements (or filings on Forms F-10 or 20-F) will be required to include, in the...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments to its rules and certain forms that will require registrants to include an active hyperlink to each filed exhibit as identified in the exhibit index of a...more
Public companies will soon be required to include an active hyperlink to each exhibit to all registration statements filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all periodic and current reports filed under the...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published for comment a proposed rule requiring the use of the Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format for the submission of operating company...more
On March 1, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules requiring issuers to include hyperlinks to exhibits listed in the exhibit index. The rules apply to most registration statements and...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a number of actions that will impact the filings that public companies make on EDGAR: ..Exhibit Hyperlinks: The SEC adopted final rules that require...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced the adoption of amendments that will require registrants that file certain registration statements and reports subject to the exhibit requirements of...more
One of the typical activities for junior associates in performing due diligence for M&A and securities transactions involving public companies is going through the “exhibit list” filed by the public company on its recent...more
On March 1, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules that will require registrants that file registration statements or reports subject to the exhibit requirements under Item 601 of...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rule and form amendments that will require issuers that file registration statements or reports subject to Item 601 of Regulation S-K, or foreign private...more
On March 1, 2017, the SEC adopted final rules requiring companies to begin including hyperlinks to each document listed in exhibit indices to registration statements and reports filed with the Commission. The new requirement...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2017, adopted rules requiring reporting companies to include in their 1933 Act registration statements and 1934 Act periodic and current reports and registration...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted changes to rules and forms that will require companies to provide hyperlinks to the exhibits listed in the exhibit index in most reports and registration...more