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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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Testifies Before Congress & Updates from the Division of Corporation Finance

The Chair and Commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services on September 24, 2024.  The SEC’s testimony provided updates on market...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

SEC’s First Quarter Rules: SPAC IPOs and Climate Disclosure Mandates

In January and March 2024, respectively, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued final rules concerning special purpose acquisition companies and mandatory climate-related disclosure. Each rulemaking was the...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Rulemaking Trends to Watch in 2024

From climate change disclosure rules to private company transparency measures, the year ahead promises to be a busy one for securities lawyers. Just as we would tell an issuer sharing projections to accompany those with...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Capital Markets Compass | Issue 3

SEC’s Climate-Related Comment Letters – Avoiding Potential Pitfalls - In September 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provided a sample comment letter that included nine potential climate-related comments...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

[Event] Financial Services Conference - May 18th, Washington, DC

Please join us for the annual Nelson Mullins Financial Services Conference, which will feature a lineup of national speakers on the future of financial services....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2022: What You Need To Know …

This year, we expect to see new disclosure requirements; rule changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission that will affect directors; activists adopting new tactics; changes to shareholder voting processes; tax and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Expected To Introduce Host of New Rules in 2022, Enhance Enforcement

Takeaways - In 2022, the SEC is likely to mandate ESG disclosures, and it intends to revise rules governing executive preplanned stock sales and corporate share buybacks. SPACs will face more regulation and also be...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Disclosure Requirements: What’s Ahead?

In various prepared remarks in recent weeks, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gensler has commented on a number of potential proposals for additional disclosure requirements....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Chair Gensler’s Insight on the SEC’s New Regulatory Agenda

In prepared remarks on June 23, 2021, Chair Gary Gensler of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provided additional insight into the commission’s recently announced regulatory agenda and its shift in priorities. His...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

SEC Announces Spring 2021 Regulatory Agenda

On Friday, June 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed its Agency Rule List for Spring 2021 with the Office of Management and Budget. The Agency Rule List gives clarity to when companies can expect to see...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Rulemaking Agenda Released

Last week, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which includes the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rulemaking agenda....more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Updates from the SEC’s Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance

SEC Division of Corporation Finance Acting Director John Coates participated in a fireside chat on April 7, 2021 during the annual Global Capital Markets & the US Securities Laws program hosted by the Practicing Law Institute...more

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