Shareholders, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Reporting

McMahon takes a bump

Cooley LLP on 1/13/2025

On Friday, the SEC announced settled charges against Vince McMahon, founder, controlling shareholder and former Executive Chair and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, for “knowingly circumventing WWE’s internal accounting...more

Practical Considerations for New Pay vs. Performance Disclosure Requirement

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 9/23/2022

The SEC’s final rule on Pay Versus Performance becomes effective on October 8, 2022, and will require new executive compensation disclosures for the upcoming proxy season (for annual proxy statements that include executive...more

SPAC Talk: Important Considerations for Private Companies Evaluating a SPAC Going-Public Transaction

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/8/2021

One of the hottest going-public trends in 2020 and 2021 has been the rise of SPACs - Special Purpose Acquisition Companies - as a vehicle for private companies to go public. SPACs are shell companies that are formed, funded...more

News Round Up - June 2017

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 7/6/2017

More on the IPO Market from the SEC Investor Advisory Committee - The SEC Investor Advisory Committee devoted its June 22, 2017, session to a discussion of the decline in the number of U.S. IPOs. Chair Clayton addressed...more

Study Shows Financial Restatements Are “Handbooks Of Trickery” For Copycat Peer Companies

Cooley LLP on 10/15/2015

No, it’s not from The Onion. According to a study reported in CFO.com, unless the restating company faces regulatory action or shareholder litigation, the company’s competitors may use its financial restatement as a how-to...more

Second Circuit Revives Securities Fraud Class Action Against the Manufacturer of the Keurig Coffeemaker

Carlton Fields on 7/30/2015

Late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the dismissal of a shareholder class action against the makers of Keurig coffeemakers and their ubiquitous “K-Cups.” In so doing, the Second Circuit...more

"SEC Proposes Long-Awaited Mandatory Compensation Clawback Rules"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/3/2015

On July 1, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued long-awaited proposed rules that would implement the incentive-based compensation recovery (clawback) provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...more

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