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Securities Snapshot: 4th Quarter 2024 - 2025 Reporting Season – Key Considerations

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 1/6/2025

As we bid farewell to 2024, we welcome not only another year but also several new disclosure requirements. In this Snapshot, we summarize several developments and best practices for public companies to consider as the 2024...more

Fifth Circuit Overturns SEC Approval of Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rules

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/24/2024

On December 11, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a lengthy opinion, vacated the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of Nasdaq’s board diversity rules in Alliance for Fair...more

Matters To Consider for the 2025 Annual Meeting and Reporting Season

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/11/2024

Our checklist and analysis present matters for companies to consider as they conduct their 2025 annual meetings and file reports to meet upcoming regulatory, shareholder and advisory deadlines. We outline key issues to...more

Recent Developments for Directors - November 2024

Latham & Watkins LLP on 11/13/2024

SEC Penalizes Director for Misleading D&O Questionnaire Response - The SEC recently brought an enforcement action against a director for causing violations of the proxy rules by failing to disclose a close personal...more

Midyear observations on the board agenda - Based on insights from the 2024 Board Leadership Conference

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) on 5/23/2024

Approaching midyear, business leaders are bullish on growth and the opportunities ahead. At the same time, the macro forces of GenAI, climate change, a multipolar geopolitical landscape and the erosion of trust and healthy...more

Recent Developments for UK PLCs - March Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/6/2024

On 23 February 2024, the Investment Association (IA) issued its annual letter to FTSE 350 remuneration committee chairs providing an update on the IA’s Principles of Remuneration and emerging views on remuneration matters....more

Risk & Compliance as a Strategic Imperative for the Board

NAVEX on 2/20/2024

In an era marked by heightened global regulatory scrutiny and enforcement, the landscape of risk and compliance is undergoing an evolution making the strategic imperative for effective, risk-based compliance initiatives...more

Top Five Risks Facing Corporate Boards

The Volkov Law Group on 1/30/2024

A Top 5 list should be viewed with suspicion — it is often just a headline grabbing posting with the clear purpose to gain readers’ attention. In defense, however, it is interesting to compare articles on risk rankings....more

Key Considerations for the 2024 Annual Reporting and Proxy Season: Your Upcoming Form 10-K

White & Case LLP on 1/8/2024

Each year in our Annual Memo, White & Case's Public Company Advisory Group provides practical insights on preparing Annual Reports on Form 10-Ks, Annual Meeting Proxy Statements and, for FPIs, the Annual Report on Form 20-F....more

Matters To Consider for the 2024 Annual Meeting and Reporting Season

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/13/2023

Companies have important decisions to make as they prepare for the 2024 annual meeting and reporting season. We have compiled this overview of the latest key issues — including SEC disclosure requirements, SEC guidance,...more

SEC Publishes Spring 2023 Regulatory Agenda

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 6/14/2023

On June 13, 2023, SEC Chair Gary Gensler announced the release of the SEC’s Spring 2023 Regulatory Agenda (Regulatory Agenda), which outlines the SEC’s rulemaking priorities over the next 12 months. The Regulatory Agenda...more

Cybersecurity Developments and Legal Issues

White & Case LLP on 3/22/2023

For most large companies, a frictionless flow of information and the ability to transfer customer data, employee files, financial records and other information around the world quickly and cost-effectively is a critical...more

Proxy Advisory Firms Issue 2023 Voting Guidelines

White & Case LLP on 12/22/2022

Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") and Glass Lewis & Co. LLC ("Glass Lewis"), the two major proxy advisory firms, recently issued their updated proxy voting guidelines for the 2023 proxy season. These policy updates...more

Preparing for the 2023 Proxy and Annual Reporting Season: Key Issues and Considerations

BakerHostetler on 12/15/2022

Companies are beginning to look ahead to the upcoming 2023 proxy and annual reporting season, and there are a number of key issues to consider as preparations commence. This alert provides an overview of these issues and...more

The Informed Board - Fall 2022

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/9/2022

The proliferation of U.S. sanctions and other regulations affecting cross-border transactions has implications for directors, who may be personally liable for violations in some cases. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange...more

Preparing for the 2023 Shareholder Proposal Season

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/8/2022

On November 15, 2022, Skadden held a webinar titled “Preparing for the 2023 Shareholder Proposal Season.” The panelists were Gianna McCarthy, Director of Corporate Governance for the New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYS...more

Proxy Advisors Update Voting Guidelines for 2023 Focusing on Board Diversity, Officer Exculpation and ESG Oversight

Fenwick & West LLP on 12/6/2022

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, the leading proxy advisors in the United States, have announced updates and clarifications for their voting guidelines for the 2023 proxy season. Their voting...more

Materiality and Disclosure: Evolving SEC Requirements for Corporate Disclosure of Environmental, Social and Governance Activities

Lippes Mathias LLP on 7/7/2022

Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) related disclosures became a topic of contention in March of 2021 with the introduction of an ESG related task force by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Facing...more

[Virtual Event] Chicago & Nashville Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - July 15th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm CDT

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 6/7/2022

General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! SCCE’s Regional Compliance & Ethics Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the latest...more

SEC offers another packed agenda for Fall 2021

Cooley LLP on 12/15/2021

The SEC’s new Fall reg-flex agenda is posted and, no surprise, it’s packed. Here is the short-term agenda and here is the long-term version. And just as with the spring agenda, Commissioners Hester Peirce and Elad Roisman...more

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