News & Analysis as of

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Financial Markets Corporate Governance

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Retail Money, Institutional Risks: The New Dynamic in Private Equity

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Private equity (PE) sponsors are increasingly seeking to broaden their investor base by offering retail access to traditionally institutional-only funds. Recently, statements by the SEC indicated the SEC staff will no longer...more

Cooley LLP

The Life of Former SEC Chair (and Corp Fin Director) Manny Cohen

Cooley LLP on

Recently, I blogged about the 20 Corp Fin Directors we’ve had at the SEC (we haven’t heard yet who will be the new Corp Fin Director) – and it got me thinking about Manny Cohen, whom many of us don’t know much about since he...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

SEC Staff Clarifies Disclosure Expectations for Crypto Asset Exchange-Traded Products

Latham & Watkins LLP on

The Staff highlighted disclosure-related observations and issues identified during reviews of digital asset ETP filings. On July 1, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Corporation Finance...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Requests Public Comment on the Definition of Foreign Private Issuer

On June 4, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a concept release soliciting public input on whether the definition of foreign private issuer (FPI) should be amended, particularly given the significant...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New Texas Stock Exchange Aims at Nasdaq and NYSE

Troutman Pepper Locke on

On April 4, the Texas Stock Exchange's (TXSE) Form 1 application for registration as a national securities exchange was publicly released by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The application contains a wealth...more

Cooley LLP

Is the SEC facing a death by 1,000 cuts?

Cooley LLP on

Bloomberg reports that staff from the Department of Government Efficiency is currently at the SEC, according to communications to SEC staff, who were “instructed to treat them as internal employees.” Bloomberg also reports...more

Cooley LLP

Corp Fin Starts Redlining CDI Changes!

Cooley LLP on

Sure, it’s important to know that Corp Fin recently issued three new CDIs and updated two existing CDIs regarding Notices of Exempt Solicitations (also known as “PX14A6G” filings)....more

BCLP

Modernizing UK Trade Settlement Standard: The Road Ahead

BCLP on

The Accelerated Settlement Taskforce is currently examining a potential migration by the U.K. from a so-called T+2 to a T+1 settlement standard, i.e., reducing the time it takes for securities transactions to settle, having...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

NYSE Receives Approval to Limit Reach of Shareholder Approval Rule

On December 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved an amended proposal submitted by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) that narrows the scope of the NYSE’s shareholder approval requirement for a...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

NYSE Updates Shareholder Approval Rule

The NYSE amended its shareholder approval rules to make it easier for listed companies to sell securities to passive existing shareholders without obtaining shareholder approval.  The SEC approved the change on an accelerated...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Waivers of Code of Conduct for Nasdaq Listed Companies

On September 5, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) posted and declared effective a Nasdaq rule proposal modifying requirements related to a waiver of the code of conduct in Listing Rules 5610 and...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Annual Review of Federal Securities Regulation

INTRODUCTION - This Annual Review (“Review”) was prepared by the Subcommittee on Annual Review of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities of the ABA Business Law Section. The Review covers significant...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

What do “Green” and “Sustainable” mean? SEC to Consider New Fund Data Disclosure Requirements

Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has asked the SEC staff to consider issuing new rules that would require fund managers to disclose the criteria and underlying data used in marketing...more

BakerHostetler

SEC Sets Forth Regulatory Initiatives for the Next Year

BakerHostetler on

On June 11, 2021, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a division of the Office of Management and Budget, released the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions,[1] which includes...more

Jones Day

Litigation and Regulatory Considerations and Risks for Financial Market Participants in a Post-Pandemic Society

Jones Day on

More than a year ago the world fell victim to a global pandemic that would change life in ways that could never have been predicted. In the early stages of the pandemic, we published a White Paper directed at financial...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Solicits Comment on NYSE Proposed Changes to Shareholder Approval Rules

On December 16, 2020, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) filed a proposed rule change to certain of its shareholder approval requirements, which would bring the NYSE’s shareholder approval rules into closer alignment with...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

An Update on SEC’s Targeted Regulatory Relief to Assist Market Participants Affected by COVID-19

On June 26, 2020, the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, joined by the Directors of the Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management and Trading & Markets of the SEC, provided a statement summarizing...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Green Bond Impact Reporting Under Securities Law

Latham & Watkins LLP on

The rising volatility of financial markets since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic has prompted many investors to increase their focus on resilience, governance, and corporate leadership as they strive to understand...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on SEC's Changes to Rule 14a-8 No-Action Request Process, FINRA's Call for...

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Staff Announces Changes to Rule 14a-8 No-Action Request Process - On September 6, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission announced...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on

The Federal Reserve bank released the minutes from its September meeting yesterday. Among other things, we learned that the Fed Governors moved largely in lockstep on September’s rate hike, even as the crew was less unanimous...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Registered Firms: Annual Compliance Obligations—What You Need To Know

This alert contains a summary of the primary annual and periodic compliance-related obligations that may apply to investment advisers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) or with a particular...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on

AT&T’s chief is weighing in the DOJ’s call to sell CNN in order to make its deal with Time Warner go through, and, as Randall sees it, “selling CNN makes no sense”....more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

It’s “Nasdaq”, not “NASDAQ”, According to Nasdaq

Nasdaq has filed an immediately effective rule change with the SEC to reflect a corporate branding change to Nasdaq’s name. Specifically, current references in Nasdaq’s governing documents and rules will be changed as...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on

The SEC hasn’t had much luck with its attempts so far to hold MBS traders responsible for allegedly lying to customers about MBS prices. Yet on the Monday’s charges against ex-Nomura traders suggests that the agency’s not...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Approves Nasdaq Golden Leash Disclosure Rule

The SEC has approved Nasdaq’s proposed Rule 5250(b)(3) regarding disclosure of so called golden leash arrangements. The Rule requires each listed company to publicly disclose the material terms of all agreements or...more

27 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide