Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Tender Offers, Publicly-Traded Companies

SEC Policy Shift and Recent Corp Fin Updates – Part 1

K&L Gates LLP on 4/8/2025

Since the beginning of the year, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance staff (Corp Fin Staff) has issued several important statements and interpretations, including a Staff Legal...more

SEC Publishes Revised C&DI Related to Lock-Up Agreements in Business Combinations and New C&DIs Related to Tender Offers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/11/2025

On March 6, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published (1) a revised Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (C&DI) regarding lock-up agreements in business combinations and (2) five new C&DIs...more

SEC Staff Issues New Guidance on M&A Lockups and All-cash Tender Offers

BCLP on 3/11/2025

The SEC staff recently published new guidance for voting commitments in public M&A transactions and all-cash tender offers....more

New CDIs related to M&A

Cooley LLP on 3/10/2025

Corp Fin has just posted some new CDIs related to M&A transactions, more specifically, a revised CDI related to Form S-4 and lock-up agreements and a new group of CDIs related primarily to material changes in tender offers....more

Repricing Underwater Options

White & Case LLP on 5/16/2022

In this time of market volatility, White & Case LLP partners Colin Diamond (Chair of US Public Company Advisory) and Henrik Patel (Global Head of Employment, Compensation and Benefits) address the securities law, tax and...more

Glossary of Important Securities Regulation Terms and Definitions

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. on 8/20/2015

This Glossary is designed to provide law students taking Securities Regulation with a tool that will assist them in learning the basic language of securities law and achieve a working knowledge of the fundamental principles...more

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