The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted the third group of amendments to its disclosure requirements, originally proposed in August 2019 and discussed in an earlier Goodwin client alert. The amendments, which are...more
9/24/2020
/ Business Strategies ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Statements ,
Form 10-K ,
Form 10-Q ,
Form 8-K ,
Human Capital ,
Item 101 ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Registration Statement ,
Regulation S-K ,
Risk Factors ,
Securities Act of 1933 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
On July 22, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to its proxy rules addressing proxy voting advice provided by proxy advisory firms, such as ISS and Glass Lewis. The amendments were originally...more
7/31/2020
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Anti-Fraud Provisions ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Exemptions ,
Final Rules ,
Fund Managers ,
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) ,
Investment Adviser ,
Investors ,
Proxy Advisors ,
Proxy Advisory Firms ,
Proxy Voting ,
Proxy Voting Guidelines ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Solicitation
The staff (“Staff”) of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has published interpretive responses to four questions (“FAQs”) related to compliance with the SEC’s COVID-19 Order...more
The staff ("Staff") of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has updated its guidance on the conduct of shareholder meetings in light of COVID-19 concerns (March 13, 2020),...more
On March 25, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has issued an order that extends the filing periods covered by its earlier order providing conditional relief for certain filing obligations...more
3/30/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Filing Requirements ,
Form S-3 ,
Form S-8 ,
Non-GAAP Financial Measures ,
Non-Public Information ,
Proxy Statements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments to the definitions of accelerated filer and large accelerated filer to exclude companies that had annual revenues of less than $100 million in their most...more
On March 13, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance and the Division of Investment Management (Staff) have published guidance to assist public...more
3/16/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Division of Corporate Finance ,
Division of Investment Management ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Investment Companies ,
Proxy Materials ,
Public Health ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholder Meetings ,
Shareholder Proposals ,
Virtual Meetings
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently published a press release that reminds public companies of several important disclosure obligations that they should consider in light of the potential impacts of...more
3/11/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Filing Requirements ,
Form 10-K ,
Form 8-K ,
Form S-3 ,
Form S-8 ,
Information Statements ,
Insider Trading ,
Proxy Statements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Safe Harbors ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Time Extensions
In January 2020, two of the largest asset managers, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and BlackRock, emphasized that they will hold Boards of Directors accountable for not making significant progress on sustainability and...more
2/11/2020
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Board of Directors ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Investors ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
SASB ,
Shareholders ,
State Street ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
The Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) recently announced that it has issued guidance on key performance indicators and metrics in Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A). Although the guidance in the...more
2/6/2020
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Corporate Executives ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Reporting ,
Financial Statements ,
Form 10-K ,
MD&A Statements ,
New Guidance ,
Performance Standards ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has published its annual updates to its proxy voting guidelines, which will be effective for annual meetings held on or after February 1, 2020. The ISS updates include matters related...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) has published a report of an investigation (the Report) into whether certain public companies that suffered financial losses as a result of cyber-related fraud violated...more
Summary -
Earlier this month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its second significant enforcement action against an employer based on confidentiality and release provisions that the SEC asserts...more
8/22/2016
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Confidentiality Agreements ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Fines ,
Health Net ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Severance Agreements ,
Waivers ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblowers
As discussed in our recent client alert “SEC Issues Important Non-GAAP Interpretations” (May 19, 2016), the SEC recently released a series of new C&DIs on the use of non-GAAP financial measures by reporting companies and new...more
On October 22, 2015, the staff of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14H (SLB 14H), which provides significant guidance for companies about the Staff’s views on the scope and application...more
11/5/2015
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New Guidance ,
No-Action Letters ,
Ordinary Business Exception ,
Proxy Materials ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Rule 14a-8 ,
Rule 14a-8(i)(7) ,
Rule 14a-8(i)(9) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholder Activism ,
Trinity Wall Street ,
Wal-Mart ,
Whole Foods
Changes to Notification Requirements -
Notifications During Pre-Market Hours. Currently, Rule 202.06 requires listed companies to notify the NYSE at least 10 minutes before they release material news “shortly before the...more
9/23/2015
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Bloomberg Inc. ,
Dow Jones ,
Form 8-K ,
Investor Protection ,
Listing Rules ,
Material Disclosures ,
Nasdaq ,
Notice Requirements ,
NYSE ,
Press Releases ,
Public Disclosure ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Trading Suspension
The SEC has proposed rules that would require most public companies to provide disclosure in their proxy statements regarding the relationship between their executive compensation and total shareholder return (TSR) for the...more