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DLA Piper

Reminders and New Disclosure Requirements for the 2025 Proxy Season

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The proxy statement has become an integral component of a public company’s preparation for its annual meeting of shareholders. The rules and regulations under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act),...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2025 Annual Meeting Filing and Disclosure Reminders

When finalizing proxy materials for annual shareholder meetings, we recommend that companies consider the recent changes to proxy disclosure requirements and other disclosure trends summarized in our December 11, 2024, client...more

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

On the 2025 compensation committee agenda

In 2025, the business environment will continue to be challenging, with increasing uncertainty and disruptions impacting companies and their employees. Emerging technologies are rapidly retooling, if not revolutionizing,...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

SEC to Continue Aggressive Enforcement Efforts in 2024 After Record-Setting 2023

This is the fourth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

BCLP

Time to Get Ready for the 2024 Reporting Season

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As companies look ahead to the upcoming proxy and annual report season, the SEC has generated a number of new items to add to your compliance checklist – in addition to those covered in last year's list. Those items, along...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Winter 2023

In the current environment, tax-free spinoffs may be the best option for companies focusing their business lines, we explain in this issue of The Informed Board. Spin-offs do not depend on third parties, and they preserve...more

Blank Rome LLP

Regulatory Update and Recent SEC Actions - January 2023

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REGULATORY UPDATES - Recent SEC Leadership Changes - The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that Megan Barbero, currently SEC Principal Deputy General Counsel, will be appointed General Counsel,...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Preparation for 2022 Fiscal Year-End SEC Filings and 2023 Annual Shareholder Meetings

Public companies initiating the year-end reporting process will need to consider, and in many cases take steps to address, a number of significant developments and issues. To assist companies in this process, Mintz has...more

Cooley LLP

SEC charges executives with insider trading— purported 10b5-1 plan provided no defense

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It may look like just another run-of-the-mill insider trading case, but there’s one difference in this settled SEC Enforcement action: according to the SEC, it involved sales under a purported 10b5-1 trading plan while in...more

Goodwin

Grayscale Investments Petitions D.C. Circuit For Review Of SEC’s Decision To Disapprove Proposed Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Product

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On June 29, 2022, Grayscale Investments, LLC petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for review of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s June 29, 2022 final order disapproving of an October...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Early SEC Enforcement Trends from Chairman Gary Gensler’s First 100 Days

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Gary Gensler was sworn in as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 17, 2021. Chairman Gensler has promised to strengthen transparency and accountability in the financial markets. Under Chairman Gensler, we...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Hot SPAC Market Increases SEC Scrutiny and Litigation Risks

The market has seen a boom in the last two years for emerging companies going public through the use of special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). SPACs are attractive vehicles for allowing a private company to gain...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: In overwhelming bipartisan vote, House passes bill to address the 8-K trading gap

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In 2015, an academic study, reported in the WSJ, showed that corporate insiders consistently beat the market in their companies’ shares in the four days preceding 8-K filings, the period that the researchers called the “8-K...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Numbers Don’t Lie: The SEC Pursues a More Streamlined Enforcement Agenda

One of the most eye-catching items in the recently released 2017 Annual Report of the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) is the significant decline in enforcement activity...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

This Week In Securities Litigation

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The SEC prevailed on two summary judgment motions. One centered on a manipulation action. The other was against an attorney who facilitated a prime bank fraud. The Commission also filed: An action against UBS tied to its...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Glossary of Important Securities Regulation Terms and Definitions

This Glossary is designed to provide law students taking Securities Regulation with a tool that will assist them in learning the basic language of securities law and achieve a working knowledge of the fundamental principles...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Mergers & Acquisitions Glossary

This Glossary contains many of the important terms and definitions used in the M&A world. The Glossary is not exhaustive, however. Like most areas of the law, M&A is a highly complex subject that involves several legal and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC Charges Directors, Officers and Major Investors for Failing to Update Disclosures Prior to Announcements of Going Private...

On March 13, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced settlement proceedings against officers, directors, and major shareholders of several companies that were recently taken private for failing to update...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume IX, Issue 48

In this issue: - Recent Developments Relating to Rights to Exclude Shareholder Proposals from Proxy Statements - SEC Approves MSRB Best Execution Rule - SEC Sanctions Operator of Unregistered Virtual...more

K&L Gates LLP

SEC Charges Corporate Insiders and Public Companies with Violations of Section 16 and Section 13 Reporting Obligations

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In an enforcement sweep recently brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), 28 officers, directors and major shareholders were charged with violations of the reporting requirements relating to equity...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC Charges Issuers, Corporate Insiders, and Other Significant Investors for Violating Laws Requiring Reporting of Transactions in...

On September 10, 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced settlements with officers, directors, and significant shareholders for violating federal securities laws requiring information about their...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

SEC Announces Enforcement Initiative for Delinquent Securities Holding and Trading Reporting by Corporate Insiders and Public...

On September 10, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges against 13 officers or directors and 15 major shareholders of publicly traded companies for violating Section 16(a), Section 13(d), and/or...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

SEC Charges Insiders for Violations of Section 16(a) and Section 13

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On September 10, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against 28 officers, directors, and major shareholders for violating federal securities laws requiring them to report information about their...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume IX, Issue 5

In this issue: - FTC Announces New Filing Thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino Pre-Merger Notifications - SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues Three C&DIs Relating to “Unbundling Rule” - NFA Members...more

BakerHostetler

Not in My House: Mark Cuban Defeats the SEC's Insider Trading Charges

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The high profile long-running saga between Mark Cuban -- entrepreneur, television personality, and billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks -- and the SEC has finally ended with Mr. Cuban emerging victorious. On October 16,...more

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