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Public Chatter provides practical guidance—and the latest developments—to those grappling with public company securities law and corporate governance issues, through content developed from an in-house perspective.

Preparing for the 2024 Public Company Reporting Season
Hot off the press! Our popular Client Update regarding the upcoming proxy season.

Think Public and Large Companies Are Entirely Exempt From the Corporate Transparency Act? Think Again.
Here's the intro from this Client Update: "Key portions of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will take effect on January 1, 2024, requiring an estimated 30 million "reporting companies" to disclo
Video Archive: “Proxy Season Roundtable – What You Need to Know Now”
Here's the video archive for the webcast from last week—"Proxy Season Roundtable – What You Need to Know Now"—featu

"Way-Too-Early" Proxy Season Stats...
Here are some "way-too-early" proxy season stats from Proxy Analytics' Steve Pantina, some of which were mentioned during last week's "Proxy Season Preview" webcast (the video archive for that program will be available and mentioned in this blog soon). Here is the shareholder proposal activity tracked through November 30th:

The SEC Might Not Adopt Climate Rules Til Spring (Or Later)
It's that time of the year as the SEC revealed its latest Reg Flex Agenda last week.

Corp Fin Director Erik Gerding Talks Risk Disclosure
Here's the entirety of this "White Collar Briefly" blog penned by Gina Buschatzke and Kathryn Campbell:

In-House Corner: The Evolution of the Audit Committee
In this blog feature, our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes, and thoughts about topics that arise in their daily practice. This particular batch of thoughts is about the audit committee today:

8 Things to Know Right Now
Here's our latest edition of our monthly feature – a quick snapshot of recent developments:

Wednesday's Webcast: “Proxy Season Roundtable – What You Need to Know Now”
Join Perkins Coie's own Allison Handy, Kelly Reinholdtsen and Broc Romanek—and Proxy Analytics' Steve Pantina—as they covered the new cybersecurity and clawback rules – Year 2 of pay-for-performance – as well as shareholder engagement and shareholder proposal trends; proxy advisor and investor voting policy updates; and a bevy of practice tips that you can use for this upcoming proxy season.

Next Week's Webcast: “Proxy Season Roundtable – What You Need to Know Now”
Join us next week for our webcast—"Proxy Season Roundtable: What You Need to Know Now"—set for Wednesday, December 6th (3:00-4:00 pm eastern).

Corp Fin Issues 15 New (and Three Revised) CDIs!
Over the week leading up to Thanksgiving, Corp Fin issued a bunch of new CDIs – and three revised CDIs – in a variety of areas in several different tranches, including:

The SEC's Share Repurchase Rule May Not Be Fixable…
A few weeks ago, I blogged that the Fifth Circuit had dealt the SEC a blow by ruling that the share repurchase disclosure rules it adopted back in May were "arbitrary and capricious" under the Administrative Procedure Act in response to a challenge bro

Glass Lewis Announces ’24 Voting Policy Changes
Recently, Glass Lewis announced the release of its 2024 U.S.

Upcoming Webcast: “Proxy Season Roundtable – What You Need to Know Now”
Join us for our webcast—"Proxy Season Roundtable: What You Need to Know Now"—set for Wednesday, December 6th (3:00-4:00 pm eastern).
A Comparison of the Free Generative AI Tools
So the ultimate "winners" of which generative AI tools work the best for most people is yet to be determined. Those old enough to remember back to the 90s will recall that it took Google quite a few years to become the dominant search engine. Many of us used a variety of now-defunct search engines well before Google swept them all away.