The Securities Law Blog provides commentary and news on the latest securities law developments impacting established and emerging growth publicly-traded issuers and investment banks, as well as entrepreneurs and venture-backed private entities. Our blog closely follows SEC rulemaking in several key areas including public and private securities offerings, shareholder activism and equity investment, and mergers & acquisitions.
The authors of this blog are members of the Corporate/Securities practice of Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP. Since our founding, this firm has been distinguished by responsive, independent and client-focused legal services provided by lawyers with a profound commitment to the companies they serve. This blog is an outgrowth of this representation of our clients in a wide range of capital market transactions.
The SEC’s FAST Act Modernization and Simplification of Regulation S-K release would leave the decision about omission of proprietary information in an SEC filing to the registrant, without filing a confidential treatment request. This accommodation is not without potential issues.
First open meeting under Chair Clayton includes unanimous approval of proposed revisions to SEC disclosure rules and forms
In an exceptionally thoughtful column using the recent Social Capital Hedosophia SPAC IPO as his test case, author James Mackintosh suggests it's time to fix IPOs with smarter lock-ups, an auction process variant for price setting and more say by issuers over who gets stock.
On September 25, 2017, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) issued the results of its survey for its 2017-2018 policy cycle. The survey, which is an important part of ISS’ yearly global benchmark policy formation process, covers five “select high-profile governance” topics, three of which we believe are particularly relevant to shareholder activism and are summarized in this blog post.
Public companies and first-time issuers will pay 7.4% more to register their securities with the SEC starting next month.
This post first appeared in Securities Regulation Daily, a Wolters Kluwer publication, on August 29, 2017.
Item 401 of Regulation S-K requires that companies disclose the business experience of its directors, officers, nominees and significant employees in order for investors and stockholders to evaluate the management of a public company
This blog post highlights what we believe are the 20 most interesting statistics in the DERA’s report on registered initial public offerings and secondary equity offerings, and exempt Regulation D, Regulation A and Crowdfunding offerings.
S&P Dow Jones Indices bars companies from joining its key indexes if they have multiple share classes.
U.S. federal securities laws apply to offers, sales and trading of digital securities in virtual organizations the same as in everyday stock sales.