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As the federal government works to roll back climate regulations and climate-focused initiatives, states are developing avenues to fill in the gaps left behind. In 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted...more
On March 27, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will no longer defend Biden-era regulations requiring large corporations to disclose the impacts of climate change on their businesses. This...more
In a widely anticipated move, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will no longer defend the agency’s climate disclosure rule issued during the Biden administration. The disclosure rule...more
Questions around the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) have come to the fore via recent, prominent US shareholder proposals and first-of-their kind enforcement actions, which we describe in depth here. It is in this...more
On Friday, May 12, 2023, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced that it had filed a lawsuit against the SEC to prevent implementation of the SEC’s new Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rules, which KMK has recently...more
President Biden signed into law H.R. 2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 on December 29, 2022. This new legislation includes the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (MFFMA), which amends the amounts and...more
The Biden Administration released its Fall 2022 regulatory agenda (Regulatory Agenda) on Jan. 4, 2023. In it, the administration outlined regulations aimed at cybersecurity requirements for government contractors, the...more
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On March 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA), which will require critical infrastructure owners and operators (among other things) to report...more
To help you stay up-to-date on the enforcement trends impacting your compliance strategy, McDermott is pleased to invite you to the 2022 Enforcement Outlook webinar series, which covers key areas of enforcement on the second...more
REGULATORY ISSUES & UPDATES - UK Introduces New Climate-Related Disclosure Regulations for UK Companies and LLPs - The Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022 ("the...more
The SEC has received two comment letters from members of Congress--one from the House of Representatives and one from the Senate--criticizing its proposal for mandatory climate disclosures....more
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 21, 2022, proposed rules that would require registrants to disclose information regarding climate-related risks in certain periodic reports and registration...more
In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new initiative focused on financial issues faced by rural communities and also updated its examination procedures to cover unfair discrimination; the...more
As momentum builds for disclosure, boards and management should consider the following practices to minimize legal risk and fully leverage the benefits a successful environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy can...more
As you have inevitably read about, in September 2021, the Biden administration instructed the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to write a rule that would generally require employers...more
As climate change jurisprudence continues to evolve, an offshoot of “greenwashing” claims has generated a series of headline-grabbing lawsuits. The definitions vary but most references to greenwashing include claims...more
The next Form 10-K filing for most companies will be their first filing required to comply with the revised Management’s Discussion and Analysis (Item 303 of Regulation S-K) requirements adopted by the SEC in November 2020....more
The rapidly growing focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters that marked 2020 continued to shape events for companies operating or based in the U.K. and Europe in 2021. Discussions of ESG are occurring at...more
Yesterday, SEC Commissioner Pierce--one of two Republicans serving as an SEC Commissioner--delivered a speech criticizing the "potential ESG rulemaking."...more
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On June 16, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would impose new ESG due diligence and disclosure requirements on publicly traded companies. H.R. 1187 – the ESG Disclosure Simplification Act of...more
On June 16, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would impose new ESG due diligence and disclosure requirements on publicly traded companies. H.R. 1187, the ESG Disclosure Simplification Act of...more
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