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Morrison & Foerster LLP

Take it to the Top: The SEC Rescinds Its Delegation to the Enforcement Division to Issue Formal Orders

To issue a subpoena for documents or testimony, Enforcement staff must first obtain a formal order. A formal order authorizes SEC staff “to administer oaths and affirmations, subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, take...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC approves extension of Treasury clearing compliance dates

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a one-year extension of the compliance dates for its clearing mandate for certain US Treasury cash and repurchase (repo) transactions, in...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC releases two updates related to clearing of U.S. Treasury securities

On February 25, the SEC released updates regarding a compliance date extension and a temporary exemption, both for U.S. Treasury securities clearing agencies. The Commission issued a final rule extending the compliance dates...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

SEC Requests Oral Argument Not to Be Scheduled in the Litigation Challenging the Climate-Related Disclosures Rule

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In early March 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) finalized its climate-related disclosures rule (The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors) (the “Final Rule”)....more

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SEC Asks Court to Put Climate Change Litigation on Hold

As previously reported in our last post, The Fate of the New U.S. Climate Change Rules Under the New Republican Administration, legal challenges to the SEC’s rules mandating extensive new climate change disclosure is ongoing...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Abandons Review of Vacated Private Fund Adviser Rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission let pass the deadline to seek a review of the decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) to vacate the SEC’s final rule relating to private fund...more

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SEC Upcoming Rule Making Agenda Recently Released - Activity Largely Paused Until After the Election

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The SEC recently released its Spring 2024 Reg. Flex Agenda, which is a list of upcoming SEC rule making activities, including both rule proposals and adoption of final rules....more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: SEC Adopts Final Rules for Climate-Related Disclosures as Controversy and Challenges Loom

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On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an adopting release (Release Nos. 33-11275 and 34-99678), entitled The Enhancement and Standardization of ClimateRelated Disclosures for Investors (the...more

Perkins Coie

The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Has Arrived: Scope 3 Is Out—But What Is In?

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After nearly two years of public comments and deliberation, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a Final Rule on Mandatory Climate Disclosures (Final Rule). While less sweeping than initially proposed,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Update on SEC Climate Change Rules

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In a never ending saga to the climate disclosure rules, on March 15, the Fifth Circuit temporarily stayed the recently adopted climate change disclosure rules....more

Fenwick & West LLP

The SEC Adopts Final Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the SEC adopted final rules (Final Rules) requiring extensive climate-related disclosures in companies’ annual reports and registration statements. The new rules are set forth in Release No. 33-11275. The...more

McDermott Will & Emery

SEC Adopts Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Rules: What Public Companies, Executives and Investors Need to Know

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new climate-related risk disclosure rules on March 6, 2024, two years after the SEC proposed new climate-related disclosure rules and three years after the SEC first...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SEC Adopts Landmark Climate Disclosure Rules

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 6, 2024, adopted a new slate of standardized climate-related disclosure rules for public companies and foreign private issuers. Adopted by a 3-2 vote, the final rules...more

A&O Shearman

SEC adopts climate-related disclosure regime covering all registrants

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New rules reflect significant concessions in response to public comments, but compliance will require careful consideration and significant investment by SEC registrants. - Scope 3 emissions disclosure not required for...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

SEC to Continue Aggressive Enforcement Efforts in 2024 After Record-Setting 2023

This is the fourth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Mayer Brown

SEC Adopts Final Rules Relating to SPACs, Shell Companies and Projections

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On January 24, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new rules and amendments to existing rules and forms (the “Final Rules”) addressing (i) the treatment under the securities laws of special...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Postpones Share Repurchase Rule

As previously reported, on October 31, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that the process used by the SEC in adopting its share repurchase modernization rules violated the Administrative...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Stays Share Repurchase Final Rule

On November 22, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has issued an order to postpone the effective date of its final share repurchase disclosure rule (the “Share Repurchase Final Rule”).  The Share...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

Holland & Knight LLP

For SEC, What's Old Is (Refreshed) Again

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Jan. 4, 2023, released its Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Reg Flex Agenda). The SEC's Reg Flex Agenda is released semiannually and,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Announces Spring 2022 Rulemaking Agenda

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On June 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released the latest edition of its Reg Flex Agenda, which is essentially the rulemaking calendar for the next year or so.  Perhaps the most surprising takeaway is the...more

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Comment Letters on Proposed Rules on SPACs

On March 30, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) proposed new rules and amendments to existing rules and forms (the “Proposed Rules,” see summary) addressing the treatment of initial public...more

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