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SEC Staff Expands Confidential Submission Options for Issuers

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/5/2025

The SEC Staff has expanded the ability of issuers to make confidential submission of draft registration statements and clarified the procedures for making confidential submissions. This new policy takes effect immediately....more

Forward-Looking Statements: Safe Harbors Compliance Guidelines

Venable LLP on 9/4/2024

The securities law disclosure framework has evolved to encourage; companies acting in good faith to disseminate relevant projections pertaining to their businesses to the general public "without fear of open-ended liability."...more

SEC Adopts Amendments to Issuer Repurchase Disclosure

WilmerHale on 5/9/2023

On May 3, 2023, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted amendments to significantly increase the disclosure required about issuer repurchases of their equity securities that are registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934....more

SEC Proposes Rules to Modernize Share Repurchase Disclosures

WilmerHale on 12/28/2021

On December 15, the same day it proposed amendments to Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) that may blunt the use of the affirmative defense for insider trading, the Securities and Exchange...more

The SEC Insists On "Terminological Inexactitude" For Resource Extraction Issuer Rule

Allen Matkins on 1/7/2020

As previously mentioned in this blog, the Securities and Exchange Commission is trying for the third time to implement Congress' directive to adopt rules requiring disclosure by "resource extraction issuers". See The SEC's...more

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