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"EDGAR Next" Goes Live

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On March 24, 2025, the rule and form amendments to EDGAR that were adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on September 27, 2024 became effective and the EDGAR Next dashboard went live. These amendments are...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Eighth Circuit Directs SEC to Reveal Plans for Climate Disclosure Rule

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On April 24, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ordered that the litigation challenging the validity of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) climate disclosure rule be “held in abeyance pending...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Eighth Circuit Temporarily Pauses Climate Rules Litigation and Seeks Response from SEC

Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s action in March 2025 to end its defense of the final climate-related disclosure rules (Climate Rules), the Attorneys General of Massachusetts and other states...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

SEC Extends Effective and Compliance Dates for Amendments to Investment Company Reporting Requirements

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Registered Investment Advisers; Compliance Officers - Quick Take: The SEC announced a two-year extension to the effective and compliance dates for rule amendments...more

DLA Piper

SEC’s Climate Rule Litigation Update: Is it Actually Over?

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s March 27, 2025 decision (the Decision) to withdraw the defense of its landmark climate-related disclosure rules adopted in March of 2024 (the Rules) did not formally pause or...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC ends defense of climate disclosure rules

On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defense of its Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors rules in the ongoing Eighth Circuit case Iowa v....more

Cooley LLP

President Trump Directs Federal Agencies on How to Repeal ‘Unconstitutional’ Rules

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On April 11, 2025, a new rule went into effect in which the United States government will start to strictly enforce the requirement that foreign nationals register their presence with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 3, April 2025

Welcome to our third issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. SEC may Reverse Proposed Cryptocurrency Custody Rule and Ohio House...more

Maynard Nexsen

Public Company Advisory: Q1 2025 SEC Snapshots

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The members of Maynard Nexsen’s Public Company Advisory Practice counsel public companies and companies aiming to become public on the full range of matters shaping their governance and operation in the public markets. As a...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

House Financial Services Committee Urges SEC Withdrawal of 14 Proposed and Final Rules

On March 31, 2025, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee (Committee) penned a letter to acting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mark Uyeda identifying 14 proposed and final rules that, according to the...more

K&L Gates LLP

United States: House Committee on Financial Services Urges the SEC to Withdraw Final and Proposed Rules

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On 31 March 2025, the House Committee on Financial Services (Committee), in a letter to Acting Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mark Uyeda, identified a series of proposed and adopted rules that...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Withdraws Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules

As a follow-up to our blog post in February about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) pause in defending its Climate Disclosure Rules, on March 27, the SEC notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Pay vs. Performance and Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules: Will the SEC Retract Rulemaking?

On March 31, 2025, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services sent a letter to Mark Uyeda, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Seeking to “undo the damage from...more

Jones Day

SEC Abandons Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to halt its defense of the climate disclosure rules introduced under the leadership of former SEC Chair Gary Gensler....more

Bracewell LLP

SEC Ends Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules

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In March of 2024, we reported on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s adoption of a comprehensive set of rules governing climate-related disclosures. The rules would require public companies to disclose climate-related...more

Fenwick & West LLP

SEC Nixes Climate Disclosure Rules

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On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the climate disclosure rules it adopted last year that would have required publicly traded companies disclose climate-related risks and...more

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The SEC Votes to “End its Defense” of Climate Change Rules

As previously reported, SEC Asks Court to Put Climate Change Litigation on Hold, the SEC had asked the court to suspend litigation in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit challenging its new climate change disclosure...more

Vedder Price

SEC Revokes Enforcement Division's Formal Investigation Authority

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On March 10, 2025, the SEC voted along party lines to amend SEC regulations in order to rescind the SEC’s delegation of authority to the Director of the Division of Enforcement to issue formal orders of investigation. The SEC...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

SEC Votes to End Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules

On March 27, 2025, the SEC announced that it voted (2-1) to end its defense of the final enhanced and standardized climate-related disclosure rules (the Climate Rules). The SEC previously adopted the Climate Rules on March 6,...more

Vedder Price

SEC Grants One-Year Exemption from New Short Sale Reporting Requirements

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On February 7, 2025, the SEC issued a one-year exemption from compliance with new Rule 13f‑2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and related reporting on new Form SHO. The SEC adopted Rule 13f-2 and the Form SHO...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC Extends Compliance Dates for the 'Names Rule' Amendments

On March 14, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the following press release (Release) to extend compliance with the amendments (Amendments) to Rule 35d-1 (Names Rule) under the Investment Company Act of...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Drops Climate Disclosure Defense

On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defense of the climate-related disclosure rules, which, even as scaled back when finally adopted, still would have required fairly substantial...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Making Waves No Longer: SEC Abandons Climate Disclosure Rule

In a widely anticipated move, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will no longer defend the agency’s climate disclosure rule issued during the Biden administration. The disclosure rule...more

Cooley LLP

Surprise—not! SEC votes to terminate defense of climate disclosure rules

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Yesterday, the SEC announced that the Commissioners had voted to end the SEC’s “defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions”—the climate disclosure rules. As you probably...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Federal Climate Change Disclosures No More

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In a move that perhaps comes as no surprise, on March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “the Commission”) issued Press Release 2025-58 announcing it had voted to end its defense of its climate-related...more

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