On March 6, 2024, two years after the issuance of a proposing release and following more than 24,000 comment letters and 4,500 unique letters submitted in response, by a vote of 3-2, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more
3/14/2024
/ Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Form 10-K ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-X ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
In 2013, Delaware passed legislation adopting a new corporate form, the public benefit corporation (PBC), with a view to allowing directors of for-profit corporations to take actions not just in pursuit of stockholder...more
9/4/2020
/ B Corporation ,
Capital Markets ,
Disclosure ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
For-Profit Corporations ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investing Companies ,
Performance and Accountability Report ,
Popular ,
Public Benefits ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stockholder Agreements
On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced, as part of its ongoing initiative to modernize Regulation S-K disclosure, amendments that add human capital resources as a separate disclosure topic,...more
9/1/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Human Capital ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Public Safety ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Workplace Safety
The year 2020 was already predicted to be a year of heightened focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics for public companies—and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread protests galvanized by...more
Founders of start-ups might hear “ESG” (environmental, social, governance) or “sustainability” and think those terms are simply buzzwords that are not relevant to their start-ups. However, savvy entrepreneurs, innovators and...more