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SEC Withdraws Proposed Shareholder Proposal Rules

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The SEC has withdrawn proposed rules captioned “Substantial Implementation, Duplication, and Resubmission of Shareholder Proposals Under Exchange Act Rule 14a-8. In conjunction therewith the SEC announced “The Commission does...more

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What’s Happening at the SEC?

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Hello, this is Dave Lynn, and I’m a partner in Goodwin’s Capital Markets practice and chair of the firm’s Public Company Advisory practice. This is New Directions, a series of discussions about the impact and trajectory of...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

SEC Staff Expands Accommodations for Nonpublic Review of Draft Registration Statements

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On March 3, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance (Division) announced an expansion of the nonpublic review process for draft registration statements. This expansion aims to...more

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Form 20-F for Fiscal Year 2024: What Foreign Private Issuers Should Keep in Mind

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There have been a number of notable recent developments in SEC regulation of foreign private issuers (FPIs), including disclosure trends and rule changes that impact the annual report on Form 20-F for fiscal year 2024. In...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Securities Snapshot: 3rd Quarter 2023 - What You Need to Know About The SEC's Latest Rulemaking

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The weather may be cooling down, but the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) did not cool down its pace of rulemaking during the third quarter of 2023. The SEC adopted its highly anticipated cybersecurity disclosure...more

Fenwick & West LLP

SEC Approves Nasdaq Rule Change Allowing Direct Listings with a Capital Raise

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In our prior article on the latest and greatest in direct listings, we noted that we were expecting that Nasdaq would follow the NYSE’s lead to allow for capital raising concurrently with a direct listing. On May 19, 2021,...more

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Nasdaq Proposes New Listing Rules Aimed at Promoting Board Diversity and Transparency

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On December 1, 2020, Nasdaq, Inc. (“Nasdaq”) filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to adopt new listing rules aimed at promoting board diversity and disclosure of board diversity...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Rejects NYSE Proposal to Allow Fundraising in Direct Listings

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On December 6, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rejected the proposal submitted by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) to allow companies to simultaneously go public through a direct listing and raise...more

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SEC Rejects NYSE's Proposed Rules on Direct Listings

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On November 26, 2019, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) filed a notice of proposed rule change with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would have modified NYSE’s direct listing rules to (1) permit companies to...more

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An In-Depth Look at SEC's Proposed 'Test-the-Waters' Expansion

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently voted to propose new Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and amendments to Rule 405 (collectively, the Proposed Rule) promulgated...more

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SEC Petitioned for an ESG Disclosure Rulemaking

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On October 1, 2018, a public petition (Petition) was filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a rulemaking on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure. The Petition was authored by two law...more

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