Join us on Thursday, July 13th for a webcast - "Proxy Season Deep Dive – 20 Things" – to hear Perkins Coie's Allison Handy, Kelly Reinholdtsen and Broc Romanek and Proxy Analytics' Steve Pantina as they cover what happened during this wild proxy season, from shareholder engagement, universal pro

The SEC is once again pushing back its anticipated timing for adopting final climate rules.

Join us on Thursday, July 13th for a webcast - "Proxy Season Deep Dive – 20 Things" – to hear Perkins Coie's Allison Handy, Kelly Reinholdtsen and Broc Romanek and Proxy Analytics' Steve Pantina as they cover what happened during this wild proxy season, from shareholder engagement, universal pro

As expected, the SEC issued notices on Friday to approve the amendments proposed by the NYSE (see that order) and the Nasdaq (see that order) so that the exchanges' clawback listing standards now have an effective date of Octob

With the apparent speed at which ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) models are being adopted—the ChatGPT website is logging an estimated 1 billion visitors monthly—it seems inevitable that transactional attorneys will not only need to familiarize themselves with generative AI technology, but actively seek ways to incorporate this technology into their practices in order t

We continue our coverage of the ongoing saga of when NYSE and Nasdaq-listed companies will be required to comply with the new clawback policies listing standards.

The last few years, we've been reporting about the numerous challenges to California's board gender diversity statute (known as SB 826) and the board diversity statute regarding "underrepresented communities" (known as AB 979).

Join us on Thursday, July 13th for a webcast - "Proxy Season Deep Dive – 20 Things" – to hear Perkins Coie's Allison Handy, Kelly Reinholdtsen and Broc Romanek and Proxy Analytics' Steve Pantina as they cover what happened during this wild proxy season, from shareholder engagement, universa

Another in the newbies series: Even though most states have a state corporation law that requires that companies incorporated in that state must have a corporate secretary (for example, see Section 142 of the Delaware General Corporation Law), there is no standardized set of responsibilities to serve as a corporate secretary in the United States. There are no minimum standards.

Here's a new monthly feature for you – a quick snapshot of recent developments:

Last week, Corp Fin issued Exchange Act Rules CDIs to address a few outstanding implementation questions for the new Rule 10b5-1 amendments.

Here's an excerpt from this Client Update penned by Michael Huston and Stephanie Olson:

As the proxy season barrels into its waning days, we have been getting a flurry of guidance from some of the larger institutional investors, including:

If you're a lawyer working in the securities law world, you're going to be working with some accountants. And those accountants will be working with you lawyers.

Our Client Update notes that privately-held companies need to bear in mind that their representations to investors, sophisticated or not, are real as the SEC has taken a number of recent actions highlighting that they are