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FASB Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act)

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC Disclosure Update and Simplification

Amendments remedy duplicative, overlapping or outdated disclosure requirements with other requirements by the SEC, U.S. GAAP or changes in the overall information environment. The amendments show recent SEC efforts to...more

A&O Shearman

Another Wave of Disclosure Simplification Rules Adopted by the SEC

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On August 17, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the adoption of amendments to simplify and update disclosure requirements. Although the amendments are voluminous in length and breadth of provisions...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Parsing the SEC’s Recent Disclosure Amendments

On August 17, the SEC announced a sprawling array of rule amendments designed to simplify and update its disclosure requirements. You may recall that the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015 directed the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

SEC Adopts Disclosure Simplification Amendments

Congress passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (known as the “FAST Act”) at the end of 2015. Among other things, the FAST Act directed the SEC to modernize and simplify its disclosure requirements by...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Proposes Amendments to Update and Simplify Disclosure Requirements

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Overview - The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently announced proposed amendments in order to update and simplify its disclosure requirements. The proposed amendments are intended to simplify...more

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SEC Proposes Amendments to Update and Simplify Disclosure Requirements as Part of Overall Disclosure Effectiveness Review

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On July 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to various disclosure provisions in order to eliminate duplicative provisions and modernize the relevant requirements.   After the proposed...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: More On The SEC’s Disclosure Update And Simplification Proposing Release

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In her statement at the SEC open meeting to vote on issuing the “Disclosure Update and Simplification Proposing Release,” SEC Commissioner Kara Stein protested that “this proposal may be framed in such a hyper-technical way...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Chipping away at disclosure overload

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Yesterday, the SEC proposed amendments to eliminate redundant, overlapping, outdated, or superseded provisions, in light of subsequent changes to SEC disclosure requirements, U.S. GAAP, IFRS and technology. The SEC also...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"SEC Rulemaking Update: A Year of Changes, With More to Come"

Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made major progress in completing its rulemaking mandates under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) and the Dodd-Frank Act. Additionally, Congress enacted...more

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