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Key Considerations for the 2024 Annual Reporting and Proxy Season Part II: Proxy Statements

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Each year in our Annual Memo series, 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...more

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Public Companies Update: Reminders for the 2024 Form 10-K and Proxy Statement Filing Season

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In this Client Alert, we highlight key considerations public companies should keep in mind when preparing their upcoming annual reports on Form 10-K and proxy statements, including rule changes, recent guidance and reporting...more

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

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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

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Public Companies Update: June One-Minute Reads

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Corp Fin issues new CDIs on Rule 10b5-1 - On May 25, 2023, the Division of Corporation Finance posted three new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) regarding the affirmative defense to insider trading under...more

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Reminder: Initial Board Diversity Matrix Now Required for Nasdaq Companies

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All Nasdaq-listed companies must now disclose a board diversity matrix by the later of (1) August 8, 2022, or (2) the date the company files its proxy statement for the 2022 annual meeting of shareholders (or, if companies do...more

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California Law Requiring Female Directors on Public Company Boards Held Unconstitutional

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Ruling Follows Similar Decision on Underrepresented Minority Directors in April 2022 - A California court has held that California Senate Bill 826, which required that “publicly held” corporations that listed a California...more

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Preliminary Planning for the 2022 Proxy Season

Our preliminary list of important planning considerations for the 2022 proxy season is set forth below. - Directors’ and Officers’ Questionnaires; Committee Charters - We have identified only a few possible changes...more

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Nasdaq Diversity Rules: A Quick Guide

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According to the proposed Nasdaq board diversity and disclosure rules, listed companies must disclose board-level diversity data and will be required to have two diverse directors—or explain why they don’t meet this...more

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Preparing for the 2021 Public Company Reporting Season

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In anticipation of the upcoming reporting season, we highlight rule changes, guidance, and trends for public companies to consider in preparing annual report and proxy statement disclosures in 2021. During 2020, the U.S....more

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California Mandates Representation of Underrepresented Communities on Boards of Public Corporations

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The Situation: California's governor recently signed into effect a new law requiring public corporations whose principal executive offices are located in California to have a certain minimum number of individuals from...more

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The Latest Successful Caremark Claim

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In Teamsters Local 443 Health Services & Insurance Plan v. Chou, the Delaware Court of Chancery held, at the pleading stage, that plaintiff stockholders had stated a claim for Caremark oversight liability against certain of...more

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COVID-19 Considerations for US and European Public Companies

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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the responses of governments and societies to the crisis are having a profound impact on public companies and capital markets worldwide. Such companies, including those in the United...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Coronavirus Update: Frequent Questions We Are Receiving

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting all aspects of our clients' businesses, not to mention their personal lives. We are fielding numerous legal and practical questions in many different substantive areas and will...more

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Did You Remember These Developments for the 2020 SEC Reporting Season?

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Preparations for annual reporting on Form 10-K and the 2020 proxy season have begun in earnest for many companies. We have summarized certain governance and disclosure developments that should be considered in the course of...more

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California-Headquartered Public Companies Must Now Have a Female Director Under California Law

As we previously discussed, on September 30, 2018, former California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation intended to ensure that public companies headquartered in California have at least one female director. This...more

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Key Considerations for the 2020 Annual Reporting and Proxy Season

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This memorandum outlines key considerations from White & Case's Public Company Advisory Practice for US public companies in preparation for the 2020 annual reporting and proxy season. Section I of this memo describes our...more

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Are Some Publicly Held California Corporations Exempt From The State's Female Board Quota Law?

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Corporations Code Section 301.3(a) provides: "No later than the close of the 2019 calendar year, a publicly held domestic or foreign corporation whose principal executive offices, according to the corporation’s SEC 10-K...more

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Secretary of State Mails Corporate Filing Reminder

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The California Secretary of State's business programs division is reminding some corporations of their annual filing obligation and California's new female director quota legislation. The reminder is being mailed to...more

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Spin-offs Unraveled: Complex ‘IPOs’ With a Sophisticated Tax Overlay - Key Considerations When Spinning Off a Business Segment or...

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In a spin-off, a public company separates one or more of its businesses into new, publicly traded companies. For the public company that initiates it, a spin-off can achieve a number of critical business and financial...more

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Can A Company Have More Than One Principal Executive Office?

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The Securities and Exchange Commission's Form 10-K requires disclosure of a company's "principal executive offices". The SEC, however, provides no definition of what constitutes a company's "principal executive...more

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Delaware Corporation Adopts Gender Quota Bylaw

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NantKwest, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with its principal executive offices located in San Diego, California. Last month, NantKwest filed this Form 8-K reporting that it had amended and restated its bylaws "to implement...more

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Where Is Your Corporation's Principal Executive Office?

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California's new board gender quota law places great weight on the location of a corporation's principal executive offices. The law applies to a publicly held foreign corporation when its principal executive offices,...more

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Does California's Board Gender Quota Law Put Investors At Risk?

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Last October, I wrote that one academic study had concluded that California's enactment of legislation mandating minimum numbers of female directors had already "resulted in a significant decline in shareholder value for...more

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Key Unanswered Questions About California's Gender Quota Law

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The California legislature has directed the Secretary of State to publish a report by March of next year on the number of corporations that are in compliance with the state's unique board gender quota law. The legislature has...more

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Blog: California Secretary of State publishes “report” about SB 826, California’s new board gender diversity mandate

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As reported on thecorporatecounsel.net blog, the California Secretary of State has published on its website two spreadsheets, dated July 1, 2019, which apparently together constitute its mandated “report” under SB 826,...more

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