In March of 2024, we reported on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s adoption of a comprehensive set of rules governing climate-related disclosures. The rules would require public companies to disclose climate-related...more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recently adopted rules governing climate-related disclosures, although significantly pared back from the rules proposed two years ago, represent a major change to the existing...more
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Coordinate closely with trades to ensure their comments reflect concrete information about impracticability and cost; these make a difference in the admin record upon judicial review...more
As we have noted previously, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recently proposed rules governing climate-related disclosures, if adopted as proposed, would represent a sea change to the existing public-company...more
The SEC’s proposed rule on climate-related risks includes amendments to both the financial reporting requirements (Reg S-X) and the narrative disclosure requirements (Reg S-K). The proposal interlinks the new requirements,...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recently proposed rules governing climate-related disclosures, if adopted as proposed, would represent a sea change to the existing public-company disclosure regime...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted final rules amending Regulation S-K and certain other rules and forms to modernize and simplify disclosure requirements. Among other matters, the amendments reduce and...more
On October 18, 2016, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission published five new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) related to CEO pay ratio disclosures. The CDIs...more
On August 5, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve final rules to implement pay ratio disclosure pursuant to Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. As required...more
On April 29, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules requiring companies to disclose the relationship of executive pay to performance as required by Section 953 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more