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This edition of the Bermuda Public Companies Update summarises significant transactions involving Bermuda companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq in the first half of 2024. Global Market Update -...more
The Corporate Transparency Act mandates certain reporting requirements for beneficial ownership information for certain companies, with the goal of preventing the illicit use of anonymous shell companies for financial crimes....more
Clawback Rules. As previously discussed in last Winter’s Corporate Communicator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC") adopted final rules in October 2022 directing the NYSE and Nasdaq to adopt listing standards that...more
As growing companies delay IPOs or sales, private company secondaries have become a rapidly growing market opportunity, especially as investors, founders and employees seek liquidity by selling a portion of their investment...more
With the Labor Day holiday now in the rear view mirror, we wanted to remind companies whose shares are listed on the NYSE/Nasdaq stock exchanges that the deadline for implementing a so-called “Clawback Policy” is fast...more
The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 added Section 10D to the Exchange Act, which requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to direct national securities exchanges to prohibit the listing of issuers that do not develop and...more
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 5, 2023, filed an amendment to its incentive compensation clawback listing standard originally proposed in February 2023. The Nasdaq Stock Market followed suit and filed an analogous...more
Last week, both the NYSE and Nasdaq filed with the SEC amendments delaying until October 2 the effective dates of their proposed listing standards requiring listed issuers to develop and implement clawback policies. On...more
Propose Effective Date of October 2, 2023 [Note: This post has been updated to reflect Nasdaq’s filing of an Amendment No. 1 on June 6, 2023 (posted June 7) proposing to delay the effective date of its clawback-related...more
This edition of the Bermuda Public Companies Update summarises significant transactions involving Bermuda companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in the first half of 2022....more
This edition of the Bermuda Public Companies Update summarises significant transactions involving Bermuda companies on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in the second half of 2021. Global market update - Equities...more
As public companies embark on the year-end reporting process, they will need to consider, and in some cases take steps to address, a number of significant developments and issues. As in past years, Mintz has prepared a...more
This paper attempts to provide a definition and context for the term, Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”), explain how and why it is used, demonstrate how investors are driving the proliferation of ESG reporting,...more
Amid intense focus on investor liquidity (and paths to potential liquidity) in private companies, we provide an update on developments around direct listings as an alternative to traditional IPOs in the United States. On...more
Persistence pays off. In June, the NYSE filed Amendment No. 2 to its application for a proposed rule change to allow companies going public to raise capital through a primary direct listing. Yesterday, the SEC approved that...more
Recent measures from U.S. lawmakers and Nasdaq to impose additional requirements on U.S.-listed China-based companies could have wider implications. On May 20, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Holding Foreign...more
As discussed in our earlier Viewpoints advisory, the New York Stock Exchange temporarily allowed NYSE-listed companies to complete certain capital raising transactions involving related party issuances or the issuance of 20%...more
Because of circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, Nasdaq and the NYSE have instituted rule changes granting temporary relief from shareholder approval requirements for certain transactions. In this article, we...more
Nasdaq and NYSE both have recently adopted temporary relief from certain shareholder approval requirements for companies that need to raise capital due to the impact of COVID-19. The temporary relief will also allow limited...more
On May 14, 2020, the NYSE adopted temporary rules that will permit its listed companies to issue more than 20% of their presently outstanding common stock in a private placement at a discount without the shareholder approval...more
Reacting to the current market uncertainty and volatility caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC (Nasdaq) have implemented several temporary rule...more
Earlier this week, we issued a Legal Alert on a Nasdaq rule change that offered temporary relief to the Nasdaq-listed companies to the extent their stock prices and market values drop below the required minimums under the...more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) have sought to provide temporary relief for certain listed companies on their respective exchanges....more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NASDAQ and NYSE are providing temporary relief from certain continued listing standards. As of now, NYSE American has not provided similar relief from its continued listing standards as a...more
In response to the current market conditions caused by the ongoing spread of COVID-19, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) have each effected rule changes in the past week that temporarily...more