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SEC Finalizes New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

By a 3-2 vote on July 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules enhancing disclosure requirements regarding public companies’ cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident...more

Corporate Governance: 2023 Midyear Review

The public and private focus on corporate governance continued apace in the first half of 2023. In recent months, there were notable developments in jurisprudence potentially impacting corporate diversity initiatives and in...more

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari to Determine Constitutionality of SEC Administrative Law Process

On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy to review a decision by the Fifth Circuit rejecting key aspects of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC or the...more

Supreme Court Unanimously Narrows Scope of Liability Under Section 11(a) of Securities Act of 1933

In Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani,1 the Supreme Court­­ on June 1, 2023, unanimously held that even in a case involving direct listing of both registered and unregistered securities, to state a claim under Section 11(a) of...more

SEC Amends Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules

On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to increase disclosures for issuer repurchases of shares or other equity securities that are registered under Section 12 of the Securities...more

SCOTUS Unanimously Holds That Respondents in FTC and SEC Administrative Law Proceedings May Challenge the Constitutionality of...

On April 14, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in two related cases, Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC (No. 21-86) and SEC v. Cochran (No. 21-1239), holding that respondents may challenge the constitutionality of...more

SEC Announces Enforcement Action for Misleading Non-GAAP Disclosures

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently entered into a consent order with IT services company DXC Technology (DXC) with respect to DXC’s alleged violations of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. The SEC...more

SEC Proposes Data Breach Notification and Incident Response Requirements

On March 15, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed three rule changes that demonstrate its continued focus on cybersecurity. One of these proposals, and the only one to be unanimously approved (the...more

SEC Issues $3 Million Penalty Against Blackbaud for Misleading Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures

On March 9, software company Blackbaud agreed to pay $3 million to the SEC as a result of alleged misleading disclosures arising out of a 2020 data breach that involved customer bank account information and Social Security...more

Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection 2022 Year in Review

The year 2022 saw a groundswell of interest in privacy rights and related legislation. Five states enacted new laws or regulations aimed at protecting a general right to privacy, while the U.S. government came closer than...more

Corporate Governance: 2022 Year-End Review

Since Kramer Levin issued its Corporate Governance: 2022 Midyear Review, a wave of enforcement actions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has underscored the continued importance...more

Widespread Disruption in Crypto Markets Prompts New SEC Disclosure Considerations

On Dec. 8, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporate Finance (the Division) posted a sample comment letter (the Letter) on its website that provides guidance to public companies regarding the...more

SEC Updates Guidance for Non-GAAP Disclosures

On December 13, 2022, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance updated several Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations addressing the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures, available here. The updates are as...more

AT&T and SEC Settle Regulation FD Enforcement Action After SDNY Denies Summary Judgment to Either Side

On Dec. 5, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that AT&T has agreed to a $6.25 million penalty, resolving charges brought against it under the securities rule known as Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation...more

SEC Adopts New Conditions and Disclosures Regarding 10b5-1 Plans

On Dec. 14, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Rule 10b5-1, generally in the form issued for comment in January 2022 (replacing the version initially published on Dec. 15, 2021), which we...more

SEC Charges Investment Adviser for Failing to Adequately Disclose ESG Investment Policies and Procedures

On Nov. 22, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged an investment adviser subsidiary of a major U.S. financial institution with violations of Section 206(4) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers...more

The SEC Adopts Incentive-Based Compensation Clawback Rule

On Oct. 26, the SEC adopted a final rule addressing the obligations of listed issuers or “companies” to recover incentive-based compensation paid to executive officers prior to an accounting restatement. The final rule will...more

Diversity in the Boardroom: A Periodic Litigation and Governance Update

Efforts to increase diversity at the top of public companies remain at the forefront of corporate consciousness and governance. As we have previously reported , stakeholder interest in diversified leadership has led to a...more

SEC Rejects Rule 10b5-1 Defense in Enforcement Action Against Cheetah Mobile Executives

On Sept. 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it brought an enforcement action against two executives of Cheetah Mobile, a publicly traded Chinese app developer, for selling the company’s...more

Supreme Court Rejects EPA’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ in Decision Raising Questions About the SEC’s Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), that the Clean Air Act did not clearly authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create the...more

The Supreme Court Will Review District Court Jurisdiction Over Constitutional Challenges to SEC ALJs | Fifth Circuit Holds SEC ALJ...

This alert addresses proceedings in two SEC securities enforcement actions emanating out of the Fifth Circuit. Both pose issues relating to the SEC’s power to bring enforcement proceedings in front of in-house administrative...more

The SEC’s Climate and ESG Task Force Charges Vale S.A. With Securities Fraud

On April 28, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against the Brazilian mining company Vale S.A., alleging that the company made false and misleading statements to investors about the company’s...more

SEC Proposes New Rules for SPAC IPOs and SPAC Business Combinations

On March 30, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a proposal for new rules and amendments under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 governing initial public offerings...more

Court Concludes That California Board Diversity Statute Is Unconstitutional

On April 1, 2022, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, granted a summary judgment motion that effectively struck down AB 979, a California statute requiring the boards of public corporations based in the...more

Second Circuit Limits Criminal Restitution Orders Under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act: Expenses Associated With SEC...

On Feb. 25, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in United States v. Afriyie that restitution orders under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) do not allow victims to recover attorneys’ fees...more

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