26 Sep, 2024 SEC Approves New Quality Control Standard for Public Company Accounting Firms By Pamela Marcogliese Jeremy Barr Ariana Negron On September 9, 2024 the SEC adopted Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) rules that establish new quality control...
08 Apr, 2024 Comparison of SEC Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures against Other Climate-Related Disclosure Regimes By Elizabeth Bieber Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Teresa Ko Pamela Marcogliese Sascha Arnold Sam Houshower Marlen Vesper-Gräske Charlotte Aspin Ian Good Heather Kellam Zo Khalid Prince Kudolo Jordan Phelan +11 more... Show less On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) finalized its long-awaited climate-related disclosures rules (the...
18 Mar, 2024 UPDATE: SEC Stays Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Zo Khalid Heather Kellam Jordan Phelan +2 more... Show less On Friday, March 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) stayed the Securities and...
12 Mar, 2024 SEC Adopts Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Zo Khalid Heather Kellam Jordan Phelan +2 more... Show less On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted its long anticipated rules, amending Regulations S-K and S-X...
01 Feb, 2024 9 Key Takeaways from the SEC’s New SPAC Rules By Michael Levitt Valerie Ford Jacob Sebastian Fain On January 24, 2024, the SEC issued a 581-page release which adopted new rules to govern SPAC IPOs and de-SPAC business combinations. To...
28 Dec, 2023 Legislation Does NOT Extend the Application of Section 16 to Foreign Private Issuers and Their Insiders By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Taryn Zucker Elizabeth Fleming Cates Saleeby +2 more... Show less The final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 does not include the changes to Section 16 proposed by...
02 Nov, 2023 M&A Earnout Provisions: Recent Trends in US Law and How to Draft Your Clause to Avoid Disputes By Linda Martin Oliver Board Maria Slobodchikova Christian Vandergeest Kaitie Holland +2 more... Show less What was old is new again: earnout litigation is once again on the rise. Earnout clauses are an increasingly common feature of M&A deals...
23 Oct, 2023 US Appeals Court Upholds Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule … For Now By Sarah Solum Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Taryn Zucker Kimberly Wang +2 more... Show less On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Nasdaq’s board diversity rule, which encourages greater...
02 Oct, 2023 Pending Legislation May Extend the Application of Section 16 to Foreign Private Issuers and Their Insiders By Elizabeth Bieber Nicole Foster Lori Goodman Taryn Zucker Ethan Magid Regina Erie Elizabeth Fleming Ariana Negron +5 more... Show less An update has since been posted and can be found at this link. For decades, Foreign Private Issuers (“FPIs”) and their insiders have been...
30 Sep, 2023 Government Shutdown & the SEC – Practical Advice for Public Companies By Sarah Solum Pamela Marcogliese Taryn Zucker Heather Kellam +1 more... Show less With a government shutdown looming, the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC has updated its guidance outlining the “extremely...
29 Aug, 2023 The Second Circuit Affirms District Court Decision in Kirschner That Syndicated Loans Are Not Securities By Linda Martin Allison Liff H.T. Flanagan Peter Linken +1 more... Show less Update: On February 20, 2024, the United States Supreme Court denied the Trustee’s petition for a writ of certiorari, which was filed on...
27 Jul, 2023 SEC Declines to Take Position on Whether Syndicated Loans are “Securities”—Second Circuit Now Poised to Decide the Issue By Linda Martin Allison Liff H.T. Flanagan Peter Linken Justin Lin +2 more... Show less In a closely watched case that has the potential to upend the estimated $2.5 trillion syndicated loan market, the Securities and Exchange...