Daily Compliance News: May 13, 2025, The Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 22, 2025, The Upping Your Game Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 9, 2025, The Corruption at the DOJ Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 4, 2025, The Tariffs on Penguins Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 3, 2025, The Tribute to Ice Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Future of Enforcement with Jennifer Lee
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
Navigating 2025: The SEC's Evolving Role in Cryptocurrency Enforcement — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
The SEC's Reach Beyond Publicly Traded Companies
Everything Compliance: Episode 151, The What is Illegal DEI Edition
Everything Compliance, Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 151, The What is Illegal DEI Edition
Fintech Focus Podcast | Crypto 2.0: What’s Next in the US?
Episode 351 -- Deep Dive into the AAR FCPA Settlement
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Are the Differences Between Private & Public Offerings?
Episode 345 -- Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
Effective Compliance Training
A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more
Dodd-Frank clawback policies require covered companies to promptly recover any “erroneously award compensation” received by certain current or former “executive officers.” “Erroneously awarded compensation” refers to...more
Latham & Watkins, in collaboration with KPMG, has released 2023 guides to the financial statements required for US securities offerings. These companion guides provide US issuers and non-US issuers a roadmap to help navigate...more
What’s the Deal? Form 8-K is a report public companies must file with the SEC to announce major corporate events on a current basis. All U.S. “reporting” companies are responsible for filing Forms 8-K to disclose recent...more
On December 2, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final amendments implementing the disclosure and submission requirements of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCA Act). In addition,...more
Who Needs to Know - Publicly traded companies, specifically those whose business was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic....more
The SEC has brought its first enforcement action against a public company relating to disclosure of the financial effect of the pandemic. The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated, without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings,...more
On December 4, 2020, the SEC brought its first case charging a public company, The Cheesecake Factory, with making misleading disclosures about the effects of COVID-19 on its business operations and financial condition. The...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted the third group of amendments to its disclosure requirements, originally proposed in August 2019 and discussed in an earlier Goodwin client alert. The amendments, which are...more
On May 21, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) amended the financial statement and other disclosure requirements that apply when public companies acquire or dispose of a business or real estate...more
On May 21, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted amendments to its financial disclosure requirements related to acquisitions and dispositions. These amendments streamline and eliminate immaterial...more
In May 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved amendments to the requirements for financial statements relating to acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, including real estate operations, in Regulation S-X...more
For Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registrants with a fiscal year ending December 31, March 2020 brings the deadlines for filing annual reports on Form 10-K for all categories of filers. These registrants and other...more
Increasingly used by REITs, non-GAAP metrics can provide insights into a company’s operating results that official GAAP metrics cannot. Such measures can demonstrate a company’s ability to deliver sustainable growth in...more
In March 2019, final rules amending Regulation S-K and related rules and forms were adopted. Included in these rules were requirements that registrants use Inline XBRL, a machine-readable computer code, to tag certain...more
On August 20, 2019, the Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) regarding the Inline XBRL rules. eXtensible...more
When a public company is contemplating an acquisition, lawyers should consider early in the acquisition process whether the execution of the acquisition agreement and/or the completion of the acquisition may trigger a filing...more
Latham & Watkins has created the Form 8-K Filing Events and Periodic Report Filing Dates Desktop Reference Guide for 2019. ...more