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Allen Matkins

If The Shares Of A Chinese Company Are Delisted, What Happens To Trading In California?

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Yesterday's Wall Street Journal includes a story about the possible delisting of shares of Chinese companies.  Shares of companies that are listed, or authorized for listing, on a national securities exchange (or tier or...more

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The Latham Global IPO Guide - 2025 Edition

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This is our global initial public offering guide. It will help you navigate the US portion of a global IPO – in other words, an IPO in which you sell locally listed ordinary shares to investors outside the United States under...more

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SEC Staff Expands Confidential Review Accommodations for Certain Issuers and Transactions

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On March 3, 2025, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued new guidance, effective immediately, significantly expanding the ability of companies to...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

SEC Charges Public Company with AI Washing

On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Presto Automation Inc. (Presto) with violations of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for misleading artificial...more

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The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2024 Edition

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Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

SEC Announces Increase in Registration Fee Rates Effective October 1, 2024

On August 20, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an increase in the fees that public companies and other issuers will be required to pay to register their securities, from $147.60 per million...more

DarrowEverett LLP

SEC’s New Rules Give SPACs, Target Companies Much to Consider

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On January 24, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new final rules relating to special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”). The new rules affect both initial public offerings (“IPOs”) for...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: January 1, 2024

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges....more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Supreme Court Requires Traceability for Securities Act Claims Arising from Direct Listings

The U.S. Supreme Court held that purchasers of shares sold to the public through a direct listing cannot sue under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 unless they can trace their shares to an allegedly defective...more

A&O Shearman

Company Acquired By SPAC Agrees To Pay $125 Million To Settle SEC Probe Months After CEO Was Charged With Fraud

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On December 21, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Nikola Corporation—a publicly traded company that develops, manufactures, and sells electric trucks—had agreed to a $125 million settlement...more

Goodwin

A Win for Deal Certainty, Delaware Court of Chancery Orders Closing of Cake Supplier Acquisition

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A Win for Deal Certainty, Delaware Court of Chancery Orders Closing of Cake Supplier Acquisition; Under Armour to Pay $9M to Settle SEC Charges Involving Disclosure Failures; First Circuit Upholds Decision Applying Federal...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Votes to Adopt Rule Amendments in Order to Facilitate Electronic Submission of Documents

On November 17, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt amendments to Regulation S-T and the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) Filer Manual (EDGAR Filer Manual) to...more

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Principles matter: SEC amends disclosure rules for business, legal proceedings, and risk factors

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On August 26 the SEC adopted far-reaching amendments to Regulation S-K items that govern disclosures on business, legal proceedings, and risk factors in filings under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Legal Update: Testing the Waters for All – New Rule 163B Expands TTW to All Issuers

On September 26, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission extended the ability to test the waters to all issuers by adopting the highly anticipated new Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act)....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” to All Issuers

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This week the SEC proposed to expand the “test-the-waters” accommodation—currently available to emerging growth companies (EGCs)—to all issuers, including investment company issuers. The proposed rule and related amendments...more

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