On February 12, 2025, the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14M (SLB 14M) concerning shareholder proposals for public company proxy...more
The Supreme Court’s most recent term has forced the SEC to face new realities regarding its powers. As has been widely publicized, the Supreme Court’s overruling of Chevron in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo highlighted...more
8/1/2024
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Chevron Deference ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Judicial Authority ,
Jury Trial ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
SCOTUS ,
SEC v Jarkesy ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Fraud ,
Securities Regulation ,
Seventh Amendment ,
Statutory Authority ,
Statutory Interpretation
Board composition remains a critical issue for public companies as investors and other stakeholders evaluate the skills, qualifications, and background of directors. It is well-known that stock exchange rules generally only...more
On April 12, 2024, in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., the US Supreme Court held that a company’s mere failure to disclose information required by management’s discussion and analysis (Item 303 of SEC...more
4/17/2024
/ Disclosure ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Macquarie Infrastructure Corp v Moab Partners LP ,
Regulation S-K ,
Remand ,
Rule 10b-5 ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Securities Litigation ,
Securities Violations ,
Vacated
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an adopting release (Release Nos. 33-11275 and 34-99678), entitled The Enhancement and Standardization of ClimateRelated Disclosures for Investors (the...more
4/1/2024
/ Annual Reports ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Emerging Growth Companies ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Final Rules ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Regulation S-X ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
When do controlling stockholders, exercising their voting power or selling stock, owe fiduciary duties to a Delaware corporation and its minority stockholders? This thorny question in corporate law may have a new answer...more
On December 19, 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) issued a decision vacating the share repurchase disclosure modernization rule amendments that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more
On October 10, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted final rule amendments (the “Final Rules”) that implement various changes to the reporting and filing requirements under Regulation 13D-G...more
10/25/2023
/ Amended Rules ,
Beneficial Owner ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Filing Requirements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
I. THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE -
Historically, the attorney-client privilege developed upon two assumptions: (1) good legal assistance requires full disclosure of a client’s legal problems; and (2) a client will only ...more
10/17/2023
/ Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Confidential Communications ,
Disclosure ,
Dispositions ,
Exceptions ,
Extensions ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internal Investigations ,
Patents ,
Privileged Communication ,
Shareholder Litigation ,
Trial Preparation ,
Witness Preparation ,
Work-Product Doctrine
On July 25, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), by a 3-2 vote, adopted final rules regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident reporting by public companies (the Final...more
8/7/2023
/ Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
FCC ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Final Rules ,
Popular ,
Proposed Rules ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Required Forms ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
XBRL Filing Requirements
On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted amendments that increase the amount of disclosure an issuer must provide regarding its repurchases of its equity securities that are registered under...more
Since early 2021, the SEC has emphasized that ESG-related issues are important to investors and a key SEC disclosure and enforcement priority. Although the agency’s heightened focus on these issues led to the recent proposal...more
5/12/2022
/ Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
False Statements ,
Mining ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Securities Violations
Earlier last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the issuance of proposed new disclosure rules [cited as “PR, p. __”], titled The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for...more
3/28/2022
/ Annual Reports ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Comment ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Registration Statement ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the issuance of proposed new disclosure rules [cited as “PR, p. __”], titled The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for...more
3/25/2022
/ Annual Reports ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Registration Statement ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
Last week, the SEC proposed rule amendments to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies. The proposed rules include an...more