Katie Schroder and Courtney Shephard’s article titled “The Council on Environmental Quality Proposes to Revise Its Rules Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act” published in the latest issue of the Institute for Energy Law’s Energy Law Advisor.
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SEC Update April 2020
SEC/SRO Update: SEC Proposes Rule Changes to Harmonize, Simplify, and Improve the Exempt Offering Framework; SEC Amends Rules to Improve Disclosure and Encourage Issues to Conduct Debt Offerings on a Registered Basis; SEC Proposes Amendments to Modernize and Enhance Financial Disclosuressch
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SEC Update December 2019
SEC Proposes Amendments to Modernize Shareholder Proposal Rule; SEC Adopts New Rule to Allow All Issuers to “Test-the-Waters”; Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Liu v. SEC
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SEC Update October 2019
SEC Proposes Amendments to Modernize Business, Legal Proceedings & Risk Factor Disclosures Under Regulation S-K; SEC Clarifies Investment Advisers’ Proxy Voting Responsibilities & Application of Proxy Rules to Voting Advice; SEC Increases Fee Rates for Fiscal Year 2020
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February 2019 SEC Update
SEC In Shutdown; SEC Penalizes Issuer For Presenting Non-GAAP Financial Measures Without Giving GAAP Measures Equal Prominence; SEC Adopts Rule For Disclosure Of Hedging By Officers, Directors & Other Employees
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December 2018 SEC Update
OCIE Releases Examination Initiatives for Registered Investment Companies; OCIE Issues Risk Alert Related to the Cash Solicitation Rule for Investment Advisers; SEC Cracks Down on Unregistered Coin Offerings
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October 2018 SEC Update
SEC Chairman Wants More Individuals to Invest in Private Companies; SEC Awards More Than $54 Million to 2 Whistleblowers; Elad Roisman Sworn in as Newest SEC Commissioner; SEC Charges ICO Superstore and Owners with Operating as Unregistered Broker-Dealers
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August 2018 SEC/SRO Update
SEC Amends Definition of “Smaller Reporting Company”; Commissioner Piwowar Steps Down; SEC Adopts Inline XBRL For Tagged Data; SEC Proposes Whistleblower Rule Amendments
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June 2018 SEC/SRO Update
SEC Awards Whistleblower More Than $2.1 Million; Altaba, Formerly Known as Yahoo!, Charged with Failing to Disclose Massive Cybersecurity Breach, Agrees to Pay $35 Million; SEC Launches “SALI”—A New Investor Protection Search Tool; SEC Proposes Amendments to the “Loan Rule”
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Product Review: Kira
In mergers and acquisitions, a tremendous amount of time and money are spent on due diligence. Before a buyer can close, it must find and quantify the risks associated with the target company post-closing. Does the target own its intellectual property? Is it in violation of employment laws? Will its key customer or vendor contracts be compromised as a result of the transaction? The list of concerns can be extensive