Resource Extraction

Resources Exploration Investment – Industry Has Its Say

by Clive Cachia | K&L Gates LLP on 5/3/2013

Industry Outlines Impact of Government Interference - Earlier this year, we provided a summary of the Productivity Commission's review of non-financial barriers to exploration investment – please see the following...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Statewide Oil And Gas Conveyance Rules

by Jason Yearout | BakerHostetler on 5/3/2013

In October of 2012 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral argument on two key cases that potentially could reshape the laws and rules applicable to hydraulic fracturing in the state. We wrote extensively about these cases...more

Conflict Minerals Challenge To Follow Resource Extraction Case To District Court

by Stephen M. Quinlivan | Leonard, Street and Deinard - Dodd-Frank and... on 5/2/2013

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

Appeals Court Dismisses Challenge To SEC Resource Extraction Rules

by Ethan Mark | Leonard, Street and Deinard - Dodd-Frank and... on 4/30/2013

In 2012 ,the SEC adopted final rules requiring public companies engaged in certain oil and gas activities to disclose payments made to domestic and foreign governments as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules were...more

TRANSACTIONAL: Upstream Developments - Russia and former republics: Unconventional Russia

by King & Spalding on 4/19/2013

The unconventional hydrocarbon resource boom that hit the US and Europe had gone relatively unnoticed in Russia until recently. Ignoring the world’s fascination with the potential of unconventional resources, Russia...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Planning for the 2013 Annual Meeting and Reporting Season

by Andrew Brady, Brian V. Breheny, Marc S. Gerber, Richard J. Grossman, Neil M. Leff, Regina Olshan, Michael Rogan, Erica Schohn, Joseph M. Yaffe | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/19/2013

As companies prepare for the 2013 annual meeting and reporting season, we have compiled an overview of the corporate governance and disclosure matters that companies should consider as they draft this season’s disclosure...more

Planning for the 2013 Annual Meeting Season

by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/3/2012

As companies prepare for the 2013 annual meeting and reporting season, we have compiled an overview of the corporate governance and disclosure matters that companies should consider as they draft this season’s disclosure...more

DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Oil & Gas Litigation: SEC Sued Over Dodd-Frank Extractive Industries Rule

by King & Spalding on 11/21/2012

A divided Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted a rule affecting publicly-traded oil, gas, and mining companies. The Commission promulgated these regulations pursuant to Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act....more

SEC Denies Motion to Stay New Resource Extraction Payment Disclosure Rules

by Jason P. Juall | Holland & Knight LLP on 11/19/2012

On October 10, 2012, the American Petroleum Institute and other plaintiffs filed a complaint and petition for review in the Circuit Court and Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit relating to new rules promulgated by the SEC...more

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