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The Coming SEC-PCAOB Merger? Arguments Against Abolishing the PCAOB

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The House Financial Services Committee voted to include a provision in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that would abolish the PCAOB. The proposal would reassign PCAOB functions to the SEC....more

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

Directors Quarterly: January 2025

The latest edition of Directors Quarterly features a summary of board and committee agenda priorities for 2025, financial reporting and auditing updates, post-election observations from around the world, and more. Read the...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Amends Accelerated Filer and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions

The SEC has adopted amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions. The amendments exclude from the accelerated and large accelerated filer definitions an issuer that is eligible to be a smaller...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

SEC Simplifies Financial Disclosure Requirements for Subsidiary Guarantors

On March 2, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to adopt amendments to the financial disclosure requirements for guarantors and issuers of guaranteed securities registered or being registered in Rule 3-10 of...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Legal Update: Ring in the New Year with SEC Year-End Guidance

During the last two weeks of 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission offered guidance and reminders relating to the role of audit committees, international intellectual property and technology risks, and confidential...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

SEC Proposes Amendments to Accelerated Filer and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions

On May 9, 2019, the SEC proposed amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions under the Exchange Act....more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

How the SEC’s Proposed Amendments to Financial Disclosures for Acquisitions Will Affect High-Yield Bond Offerings

On May 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) proposed amendments to its rules governing financial disclosures relating to acquisitions and dispositions of businesses....more

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SEC Proposes Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Business Acquisitions and Dispositions

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As part of its ongoing review of the disclosure requirements under federal securities laws, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed amendments relating to business acquisitions and dispositions by...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Issues Concept Release about Quarterly Reporting

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The SEC has issued a comment release soliciting input on many questions related to quarterly reporting. The release covers a lot of possible scenarios, any or none of which may occur. The format, as with many releases of this...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Legal Update: Will the Earnings Release Be the New 10-Q?

On December 18, 2018 the Commission published a Request for Comment on Earnings Releases and Quarterly Reports (the “Request”), which solicits public comment on both earnings releases and the frequency of periodic reporting....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC Adopts Amendments to Rule 15c2 12

In mid-August, the SEC adopted amendments to its Rule 15c2-12 (the “Rule”), following 18 months of review of comments made to its original proposed amendments. The SEC action will be published in the Federal Register shortly....more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Ending Quarterly Filings? Or Just Discontinuing Quarterly Guidance?

Even before the Trump tweet, discussions regarding interim reporting requirements for U.S. public companies had been ongoing for several years. ...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Commission Responds to Tweet

As we previously blogged, a Trump tweet called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to undertake a study regarding the costs and benefits of quarterly versus semi-annual filings. ...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

SEC Proposes Rules to Simplify and Streamline Disclosures of Subsidiary Guarantors in Debt Offerings

On July 24, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose rule amendments to simplify and streamline the financial disclosure requirements applicable to debt offerings for guarantors and issuers of guaranteed...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

House Passes JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018

The United States House of Representatives passed the bipartisan JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018, which is often referred to as JOBS Act 3.0. ...more

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