10/1/2025 3:09:46 PM Government Shutdown & the SEC Practical Advice for Public Companies By Erik Gerding Melissa Hodgman Yesterday, before the federal government shutdown took effect, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) confirmed in...
9/30/2025 5:14:59 PM From the Freshfields SEC Desk: One Green Light for Mandatory Arbitration from the SEC By Erik Gerding Melissa Hodgman On September 17, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took a significant step to reverse course on a decades-old policy...
6/26/2025 2:26:42 PM Trends and Updates from the 2025 Proxy Season By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Shira Oyserman Abbey MacDonald Heather Brookfield Andrew Dockham Austin Evers Beth George Sarah Ghulamhussain David Livshiz Sean Quinn +8 more... Show less The Freshfields’ team reviewed trends and developments for the 2025 proxy season, summarizing the key takeaways and guidance across the...
6/9/2025 7:29:02 PM SEC Revisits Foreign Private Issuer Eligibility By Erik Gerding Michael Levitt Melissa Hodgman Taryn Zucker David Boles Chris DeCresce Arun Balasubramanian Howie Farn +5 more... Show less I. Executive Summary On June 4, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Concept Release on Foreign Private Issuer...
5/20/2025 7:10:23 PM Takeaways from the 11th Annual Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom By Ethan Klingsberg Thank you to the in-person attendees who packed the “sold-out” venue and the hundreds who joined virtually at the 11th Annual Spring...
3/11/2025 2:36:47 PM SEC Expands Confidential Review Opportunities By Pamela Marcogliese Jeremy Barr Collette Moura On March 3, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted enhanced accommodations for filing registration statements. These...
12/17/2024 5:37:04 PM Another Blow to ESG Mandates: Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Vacates Nasdaq Diversity Rules By Pamela Marcogliese Calise Cheng Shira Oyserman Yunah Ko William Gu +2 more... Show less On December 11, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”), in an en banc rehearing of Alliance for...
9/26/2024 3:02:19 PM 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...
4/8/2024 6:33:44 PM 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...
3/18/2024 2:23:48 PM 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...
3/12/2024 8:00:48 PM 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...
2/1/2024 4:40:17 PM 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...