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Public Disclosure Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC Proposes New Rule Requiring Increased Disclosure of Short Sale Information

In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which required the SEC “to prescribe rules to make certain short sale data publicly available no less than monthly.”...more

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New Year, New Rules: Arrival of the Final Hedging Disclosure Rules

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On December 18, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved long-awaited final rules implementing Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Consistent with the proposed...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - October 2016

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Editor's Note - Regulation and Innovation, Part IV. In the April 6, June 22 and September 14 editions of the Roundup, we discussed the approaches of various banking regulators generally, and the Office of the...more

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SEC Extractive Industry Transparency Requirements Move Forward

On December 11, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a new proposed rule to implement a key provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that targets corruption and increases transparency requirements for payments...more

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SEC Proposes Mandatory Incentive Compensation Clawback Rules

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On July 1, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules, consisting of new Rule 10D-­1 and related rule and form amendments, that would require clawbacks of incentive compensation received by executive officers...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review

SEC Provides Additional Analysis Related to Proposed Pay Ratio Disclosure Rules - On June 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission provided additional analysis related to its proposed rules for pay ratio disclosure. The...more

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SEC Proposes Dodd-Frank Hedging Policy Disclosure Rules

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently released long-awaited proposed rules, as mandated by Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Act, that would require a public company to disclose whether the company permits its...more

K&L Gates LLP

SEC Proposes Rules Requiring Disclosure of Hedging by Employees, Officers, and Directors

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On February 9, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued proposed rules to implement Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, requiring disclosure of whether an...more

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SEC Proposes Rules for Disclosure of Hedging by Employees, Officers, and Directors

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Boards of Directors of companies subject to the federal proxy rules should take note of proposed rules released by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 9, 2015 that would enhance corporate disclosure of...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC Proposes Rules for Disclosure of Companies’ Hedging Policies

On February 9, as mandated by Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules requiring disclosure by US public...more

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SEC Proposes Rules for Hedging Disclosure

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On February 9, 2015, the SEC proposed rules that would require domestic public companies to disclose in proxy and information statements whether the company permits any of its directors or employees (including officers) to...more

Blank Rome LLP

SEC Proposes Rules for Hedging Disclosure

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On February 9, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission, as required by Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Act, issued proposed rules requiring enhanced proxy disclosure of a company’s hedging policies for its directors,...more

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Does The SEC Have Hedging Backwards?

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Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it is proposing new rules requiring “disclosure about whether directors, officers and other employees are permitted to hedge or offset any decrease in the...more

Bracewell LLP

SEC Proposes Rules for Hedging Policy Disclosure

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules to implement the disclosure of hedging policies as required by Section 955 the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. ...more

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SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules on Hedging Policies

On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed rules requiring disclosure of companies’ policies with respect to hedging transactions, in order to implement Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Proposed Hedging Disclosures to Apply to EGCs

The SEC recently proposed amendments to require disclosure of whether employees and directors of public companies are permitted to hedge or offset any decrease in the market value of equity securities granted to them as part...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Proposes Rules Requiring Hedging Disclosures

On February 9, 2015, pursuant to the mandate in Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC proposed new rules that, if adopted, would require public companies to disclose in their proxy or information statements relating to...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"The JOBS Act: The Resurgent IPO Market and What We Learned in Year Two"

Almost two years have passed since the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act) was signed into law to ease regulatory burdens on smaller companies and facilitate public and private capital formation. The provisions...more

Allen Matkins

Court Rejects SEC’s Interpretation That All Exchange Act Reports Are Public

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SEC Misreads The Dodd-Frank Act - Commenting on the SEC’s short-lived resource extraction rule, Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently posted: Can’t anybody at the SEC do basic cost benefit analysis? I hesitate to...more

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Financial Services Bulletin: Action At The SEC, Fed, And FDIC

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The SEC Proposed Money Market Fund Reforms - On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) voted unanimously to propose rules that would reform the way that certain money market funds...more

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