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Securities Law Update - August 2025

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Welcome to the latest edition of Fenwick’s Securities Law Update. This issue contains updates and important reminders on...more

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Client Alert: The New Terrain for Going Public—Strategic Insight for Capital Raisers Amid Regulatory Change

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Imagine a small, fast-growing tech company preparing to go public in 2025. The leadership team, relying on practices that were standard just a few years ago, drafts generic risk disclosures, leans on flexible governance...more

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Will the SEC’s Changes to the Foreign Private Issuer Definition Affect SPACs?

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On June 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a concept release seeking public comment on the definition of the term "foreign private issuer" (FPI). The request is in response to global market changes and...more

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Capital Markets & Governance Insights - July 2025

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In a broad reversal of course on proposed rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the leadership of former SEC Chair Gary Gensler, on June 12, 2025, the SEC issued a notice withdrawing fourteen of...more

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SEC Climate Rule Saga Continues

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) controversial climate disclosure rules have been essentially dead since last March, when the SEC voted to end its defense of the rules. ...more

Cooley LLP

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

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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

Redgrave LLP

Maintaining Information Preservation and Management Vigilance in an Age of Apparent Reduced Law Enforcement

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Corporate legal departments are busy. They face new privacy regulations, ever-shifting trade policies, developments in artificial intelligence, and an unending stream of breaking news. It is difficult to keep up, and lately,...more

Fenwick & West LLP

SEC in Discussion with Exchanges to Ease Public Company Regulations

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The SEC is reportedly in discussions with Nasdaq and NYSE about ways to ease the burden of becoming—and remaining—a public company....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Plain Speaking Wins the Day with D.C. Court of Appeals: Proxy Advisors Are Not Subject to SEC Rule 14(A) Solicitation Prohibition

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently held that the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the securities industry were effectively “separated by a common language.” Giving...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

SEC Withdraws Proposed Rule on ESG Disclosures for Investment Advisers and Investment Companies

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The withdrawal aligns with the SEC’s “back to basics” approach, but it does not preclude scrutiny of ESG in asset managers’ strategies, marketing, and fund documentation....more

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EDGAR Next: Transition to the SEC's New Filing System Before the September Deadline

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Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) introduced a new filing system, referred to as EDGAR Next, which establishes an authentication process for EDGAR filers seeking to make filings with the...more

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SEC Withdraws Guidance That Companies Must Disclose Foreign Climate Litigation

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Last Friday, on June 20, the SEC withdrew guidance--dating from the George W. Bush administration--that indicated that “disclosure of environmental actions brought by a foreign government” was “require[d].”  In effect, the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC Considers Revising Foreign Private Issuer Definition

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a concept release seeking public comment by September 8, 2025, on its definition of “foreign private issuer” (FPI). The SEC indicated that a review is warranted due to...more

Cooley LLP

Capital Markets Update – May 2025 One-Minute Reads

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ESMA releases proposed rules for regulation of ESG ratings providers On May 2, ESG Today reported that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) under the...more

DLA Piper

Current State of Play for Foreign Private Issuers

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As discussed in our prior blog post, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) recently issued a concept release (Release) aiming to gather input on whether the criteria for designation as a foreign private...more

Smith Anderson

EDGAR Next - Time to Enroll

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On September 27, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rule and form amendments, collectively referred to as "EDGAR Next," to make its online filing and account management system more secure and...more

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The Future of the SEC’s Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

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Adopted in July 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s cybersecurity disclosure rules require public companies to report material cybersecurity incidents on Form 8-K and to annually report on their...more

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Securities Law Update - June 2025

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Welcome to the latest edition of Fenwick’s Securities Law Update. This issue contains updates and important reminders on...more

Jones Day

Could the SEC's Enforcement Spotlight Return to Executive Perks?

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The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") is hosting a roundtable discussion on disclosures just weeks after reports of significant increases in executive perks....more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Rethinking Disclosure: Reimagining Executive Compensation Rules

On June 26, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) will host a roundtable to explore potential changes to executive compensation disclosure requirements.  This event, highlighted in the SEC’s official...more

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Capital Markets Update – April 2025 One-Minute Reads

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Nasdaq policy recommendations - On March 31, Nasdaq announced the release of a comprehensive set of policy recommendations in a paper titled, “Advancing the U.S. Public Markets: Unlocking Capital Formation for a Stronger...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition

Welcome to this edition of the award-winning Everything Compliance. In this episode, the quartet of Matt Kelly, Jonathan Armstrong, Karen Moore, and Karen Woody is hosted by Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist. • Karen Moore...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Conflict Minerals Disclosures Due June 2, 2025

Conflict minerals disclosures on Forms SD are required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) no later than June 2, 2025.1 The conflict minerals disclosure rules and related guidance have remained at a...more

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Corp Fin Updates CDIs on Rule 10b5-1

On April 25, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) updated its Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) relating to Rule 10b5-1 by issuing two new CDIs,...more

K&L Gates LLP

What a Relief! Co-Investments Get Easier for Interval Funds, Tender Offer Funds, and Business Development Companies

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a streamlined framework for co-investments involving certain closed-end funds and business development companies (together, Regulated Funds)....more

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