Changing a company's name is a big deal. From a legal standpoint, there's so much more to do than you would think. It's expensive – and time-consuming – to pull off.

Man, we don't envy those of you who have been through the process of a public company changing its name. The legal workload is a bear.

This feature of our blog is where our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes and thoughts about things that come up in their daily practice. This particular batch of thoughts is about how in-house practitioners are embracing generative AI so far:

Recently, the SEC's Office of Structured Disclosure warned in this statement that some companies are incorrectly tagging basic and diluted earnings-per-share data in XBRL. Without fixing the tags, apparently the data is useless to end users.

It's easy not to keep up with the latest pronouncements from the SEC Enforcement Staff about what is appropriate cooperation that earns you points when it comes to negotiating a settlement with the Staff. That's because you have enough on your hands without bothering to learn about something that isn't relevant to you.

Here's our latest edition of our monthly feature – a quick snapshot of recent developments:

Here's the fourth of the 21 hats that the corporate secretary wears (here's the blog about the third hat): "The corporate secretary role has evolved dramatically over the past several decades.

Recently, SEC Corp Fin Director Erik Gerding and Chief Accountant Paul Munter took the fairly unusual step by issuing this joint statement about how to apply new IFRS 19 to SEC filings made by certain subsidiaries of foreign privat

Here is the teaser about this Client Update: "Since the European Union seized the early global lead in regulating artificial intelligence, the U.S. Congress has made noise about the need for federal AI legislation, but progress has been slow.

Yesterday, Corp Fin Director Erik Gerding issued a statement to clarify that a company should not file Form 8-K under Item 1.05 in connection with a cybersecurity incident that it has determined is not material or for which it has not yet made a materiality determination.

Following up on my blog about the types of shareholder proposals being submitted to companies this year, here are a few interesting Corp Fin no-action statistics drawn from

It's strange enough that the proposal for financial institutions to limit incentive pay remains unimplemented 14 years after Section 956 of Dodd-Frank mandated it, but it's perhaps as strange that a group of banking regulators just re-proposed draft rules from 2016 and that the SEC is not among the agencies that re-proposed the rules.

The circumstances leading the SEC to charge a small independent auditor with "massive fraud" are egregious and not likely to be duplicated elsewhere. But the SEC's action provides a reminder for audit committees' role in overseeing the independent auditor.

Here's the intro from this Client Update: "The Criminal Division of the U.S.

Here's the third of the 21 hats that the corporate secretary wears (here's the blog about the second hat): "You're in the middle of the spider web.

Here's our latest edition of our monthly feature – a quick snapshot of recent developments: