Public companies should be aware of new disclosure requirements for their upcoming Form 10-K filings for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2024 (2024 Form 10-K) and for their upcoming Proxy Statements to be filed in 2025...more
12/23/2024
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Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Form 10-K ,
Insider Trading ,
Proxy Season ,
Proxy Statements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Risk Assessment ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Overview - On Wednesday, 26 October 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), in a 3-2 vote, adopted final rules directing listing exchanges to require listed companies to establish, disclose, and enforce...more
Overview - On 25 August 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules (Final Rules) implementing the “pay versus performance” disclosure requirement set forth in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more
Introduction - On 24 November 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules that would meaningfully expand the ability of companies involved in the “gig economy” to grant equity compensation to their...more
Introduction - On 24 November 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules that would significantly modernize and simplify the ability of companies to grant equity compensation to their workers under...more
Mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry have been on the upswing in recent years, and even with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the layoffs, furloughs, and financial losses that have followed in its wake;...more
8/28/2020
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Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Buyers ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Due Diligence ,
Employees ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Independent Contractors ,
Unions ,
WARN Act ,
Workplace Safety
INTRODUCTION - On 22 July 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted amendments to the rules governing proxy solicitations (the Amendments) designed to regulate voting advice provided by firms such as...more
INTRODUCTION - Companies — public and private — have suffered steep declines in value in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The declines have caused many employee stock options to become “underwater”— in some cases,...more
Private equity sponsors recently won a significant court victory that may result in increased appetite for transactions involving companies with unionized workforces. ...more