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Summer 2024 Corporate Communicator

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On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted final climate disclosure rules (the “Final Rules”)1 to take effect as early as the beginning of the 2025 fiscal year. On April 4, 2024, the SEC...more

DarrowEverett LLP

The Heat Is On SEC’s Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new final rules requiring issuers to include extensive disclosure in registration statements and periodic reports regarding material...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

The SEC Issues Final Climate Disclosure Rules for Public Companies, but Legal Challenges are Pending

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On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized its long-awaited climate disclosure rules on a party-line 3-2 vote. The new rules have been significantly watered down from the SEC’s March 21, 2022...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC Adopts Long-Anticipated Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosure Requirements

The rules impose standardized disclosure requirements on public companies beginning as early as 2026 (for fiscal year ending 2025, depending on filer status). Climate-related disclosures, including in financial statement...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Making Waves: The SEC Publishes Final Climate Disclosure Rules

Key Points - On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, the SEC in a 3-2 vote adopted “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” (Final Rule). The Final Rule will require public companies to...more

Snell & Wilmer

SEC Revises (and Weakens) Climate Disclosure Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final climate disclosure rules sparking a range of reactions within the business and environmental communities. These changes represent a significant...more

Jones Day

SEC Finalizes Climate Disclosure Rules

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The SEC has adopted the much-anticipated climate-related disclosure rules, which are more than 900 pages long, two years after they were first proposed. Although the rules will almost certainly face challenges in court that...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

SEC Issues Final Climate Risk Disclosure Rules

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The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final climate risk disclosure rules on March 6, 2024, nearly two years after the controversial proposed rules generated intense interest and debate. The Enhancement and...more

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SEC Issues Long-Awaited Climate Disclosure Rule

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Today, after nearly two years of anticipation, the SEC finally enacted a climate disclosure rule on a 3-2 party-line vote by the SEC Commissioners. As described by SEC Commissioner Lizarrage, “[b]y requiring registrants to...more

Paul Hastings LLP

SEC Adopts Long-Awaited SPAC Rules

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On January 24, 2024, nearly two years after the SEC initially proposed industry-chilling rules overhauling the treatment of special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) in their IPOs and de-SPAC transactions, the SEC...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

SEC Increases Oversight of Investment Advisers to Private Equity Funds and Hedge Funds with New Rules

SEC APPROVES NEW RULES IMPACTING INVESTMENT ADVISERS AND FUNDS - On Wednesday, August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 along party lines to approve new rules and rule amendments under the...more

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Publicly Traded Employers Will Need to Claw Back Incentive Pay from Former and Current Executive Officers

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Employers with stock listed on a national security exchange will become subject to a new final rule mandating the implementation of a policy that will require employers to recoup incentive-based compensation from officers who...more

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Final Clawback Rules Adopted by the SEC

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On October 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules implementing Section 954 of the Dodd‑Frank Act. The final rules were published in the Federal Register on November 28, 2022...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Another Seven Year Wait is Over! SEC Finalizes Regulations on Clawback of Incentive Compensation for Restated Financial Statements

As we recently noted (see our Corporate & Securities Law blog from October 26, 2022, “SEC Adopts New Executive Compensation Clawback and Disclosure Rule”), in accordance with Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...more

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SEC Adopts Requirements for Clawback of Erroneously Awarded Compensation

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The long-anticipated rules regarding recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation, commonly referred to as a “clawback,” were adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission by a 3-2 vote on October 26,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New SEC Rule Requires Incentive-Compensation Clawback, Filing and Disclosure Obligations

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Congress in 2010 passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). Pursuant to Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was tasked with adopting...more

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SEC Adopts Final Rules to Modernize Financial Disclosure Requirements

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On November 19, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules to update the core financial disclosure requirements of Regulation S-K – relating to Selected Financial Data, Supplementary Financial...more

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SEC Adopts Rule Amendments to Modernize Certain Disclosures Under Regulation S-K

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By a 3-2 vote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments designed to modernize the disclosure requirements involving description of business (Item 101), legal proceedings (Item 103), and risk...more

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SEC Updates Financial Disclosure Requirements for Acquired and Disposed Businesses

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On May 20, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it had adopted final rules amending Rule 1-02(w), Rule 3-05, Rule 3-14, and Article 11 of Regulation S-X. References in this Alert to “Rule” or...more

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SEC Updates Rules for Financial Statements for M&A

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 21, 2020, adopted amendments to Regulation S-X (Reg S-X) for financial statements related to acquisitions and dispositions of businesses. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton stated that...more

King & Spalding

REIT Advisor – March 2020

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On March 2, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released its final rule amending the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings that include credit enhancements, including...more

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Financial Services Weekly News: Regulators Propose Easing Volcker Rule Restrictions

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In This Issue. Federal financial regulators brought January to an impactful conclusion last week. On the morning of January 30, five federal financial regulators issued a proposed rule that would fundamentally modify the...more

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Key Takeaways for Investors From the Federal Reserve’s Final “Control” Rule

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On January 30, 2020, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) issued a final rule (Rule) that revises the Federal Reserve’s regulations related to determinations of whether a first company (an...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on Rule Changes for Position Limits and Brexit Transitions

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues C&DIs on Omission of Third Year From MD&A - As previously discussed in the April 12, 2019 edition of Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, the Securities and...more

K&L Gates LLP

SEC Adopts Final Rule Implementing Amendments to Regulation S-K, Regulation S-X, and other Securities Laws to Simplify Disclosure...

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In August 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) adopted amendments to certain disclosure requirements set forth in Regulation S-K, Regulation S-X, and other Commission rules and forms promulgated...more

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