Since the Bass, Berry & Sims Corporate & Securities Practice hosted its 2nd Annual Corporate & Securities Counsel Public Company Forum in December 2020, the Biden Administration has proposed a new Securities and Exchange...more
2/19/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Reporting ,
Financial Statements ,
Investment Test ,
New Guidance ,
New Legislation ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-X ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Stocks
Earlier this month, in a bipartisan vote of 384 to 7, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 8-K Trading Act of 2019. A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate and given the bipartisan support in the House, is...more
On November 5, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a 3-2 decision voted to propose amendments to rules governing shareholder proposals in companies’ proxy statements. These proposed amendments – which seek to...more
11/7/2019
/ Comment Period ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporations Code ,
General Corporation Law ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proxy Season ,
Proxy Statements ,
Rule 14a-8 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholder Proposals ,
Shareholders
It’s been a busy late summer and early fall for the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) as it relates to shareholder proposals and the Staff’s historical involvement in the no-action process related to...more
10/24/2019
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
New Guidance ,
No-Action Letters ,
No-Action Relief ,
No-Action Requests ,
Proxy Season ,
Proxy Statements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Rule 14a-8 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholder Proposals