The Federal Trade Commission's Final Negative Option Rule ("Click to Cancel Rule") contains stringent new requirements for negative option programs, making it even more difficult to run compliant negative option offers....more
Nearly a year and a half after proposing them, the SEC recently adopted amendments to disclosure requirements for reporting companies, as mandated by the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the FAST Act). These...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s final rules requiring hyperlinking of exhibits to SEC filings will be effective for most public companies on September 1, 2017. This update summarizes the final rules, answers the top...more
The first quarter of 2017 saw quite a few new developments in the Capital Markets & Public Companies regulatory landscape. President Trump’s nominee to be the new Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay...more
On March 1, 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules requiring issuers to include hyperlinks to exhibits listed in the exhibit index. The rules apply to most registration statements and...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a number of actions that will impact the filings that public companies make on EDGAR: ..Exhibit Hyperlinks: The SEC adopted final rules that require...more
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt final rule and form amendments to require issuers to include hyperlinks to each exhibit included in SEC filings. The same day, the SEC also issued...more
One of the typical activities for junior associates in performing due diligence for M&A and securities transactions involving public companies is going through the “exhibit list” filed by the public company on its recent...more
On March 1, 2017, the SEC adopted final rules requiring companies to begin including hyperlinks to each document listed in exhibit indices to registration statements and reports filed with the Commission. The new requirement...more
Last August, the SEC proposed rule amendments that would require companies to include a hyperlink to each exhibit listed in the exhibit index of a registration statement, periodic report or current report. At the time, I...more
We reported in September 2016 on proposed Securities and Exchange Commission rules requiring the use of hyperlinks to exhibits in most registration statements and periodic and current reports. On March 1, 2017, the SEC...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted final rules that will require companies to include active hyperlinks to exhibits in most registration statements filed under the Securities Act of 1933 and most reports filed...more