Topic: Audit Committee

Updated Summary of Director Education Opportunities Now Available

July 10, 2023 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Lori Zyskowski; Ronald O. Mueller; Elizabeth A. Ising Topic(s): Audit Committee; Corporate Governance; ESG; IPOs; Securities Regulation; Shareholder Proposals

Gibson Dunn’s summary of director education opportunities has been updated as of July 2023. A copy is available at this link. Boards of Directors of public and private companies find this a useful resource as they look for high quality education opportunities.

Updated Summary of Director Education Opportunities Available

April 11, 2023 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Lori Zyskowski; Ronald O. Mueller; Elizabeth A. Ising Topic(s): Audit Committee; Corporate Governance; ESG; IPOs

Gibson Dunn’s summary of director education opportunities has been updated as of April 2023. A copy is available at this link. Boards of Directors of public companies find this a useful resource as they look for high quality education opportunities.

Updated Summary of Director Education Opportunities Available

January 5, 2023 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Lori Zyskowski; Ronald O. Mueller; Justine Robinson Topic(s): Audit Committee; Corporate Governance; ESG; IPOs

Gibson Dunn’s summary of director education opportunities has been updated as of January 2023. A copy is available at this link. Boards of Directors of public companies find this a useful resource as they look for high quality education opportunities.

Updated Summary of Select Director Education Opportunities Available

October 19, 2022 | Posted by Lori Zyskowski; Elizabeth A. Ising; Hillary H. Holmes Topic(s): Audit Committee; Corporate Governance

Gibson Dunn’s summary of director education opportunities has been updated as of October 2022 and is available
at this link. Boards of Directors of public companies find this a useful resource as they look for high quality education opportunities.

Update on Changes in SEC Commissioners

July 21, 2022 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Thomas J. Kim; Ronald O. Mueller; James J. Moloney Topic(s): Audit Committee; Capital Markets; Securities Regulation

On July 18, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that Jaime Lizárraga was sworn in as the SEC’s newest Commissioner following the departure of Allison Herren Lee on July 15. The current SEC Commissioners are as follows, in order of reverse seniority:

Now Available: SEC Desktop Calendar for 2023

July 20, 2022 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Peter Wardle; Justine Robinson; Lori Zyskowski Topic(s): Audit Committee; Capital Markets; Corporate Governance; Disclosure; Financial Statements; IPOs; Proxy Statements and Annual Meetings; Registered Securities Offerings; Registration Statements; Securities Regulation; Underwriters and Agents

To continue assisting US companies with planning for SEC reporting and capital markets transactions into 2023, we offer our annual SEC Desktop Calendar. This calendar provides both the filing deadlines for key SEC reports and the dates on which financial statements in prospectuses and proxy statements must be updated before use (a/k/a financial staleness deadlines).

Updated Summary of Select Director Education Opportunities Available

June 29, 2022 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Elizabeth A. Ising Topic(s): Audit Committee; Corporate Governance

Gibson Dunn’s summary of director education opportunities has been updated as of July 2022 and is available at the link below. Boards of Directors of public companies find this a useful resource as they look for high quality education opportunities.

Updated Summary of Select Director Education Opportunities Available

February 22, 2022 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Elizabeth A. Ising Topic(s): Audit Committee; Corporate Governance

Gibson Dunn’s summary of director education opportunities has been updated as of February 2022 and is available at the link below. Boards of Directors of public companies find this a useful resource as they look for high quality education opportunities.

Now Available: SEC Desktop Calendar for 2022

September 30, 2021 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Peter Wardle; Lori Zyskowski Topic(s): Audit Committee; Capital Markets; Disclosure; IPOs; M&A; Proxy Statements and Annual Meetings; Registration Statements; Securities Regulation

To continue assisting US companies with planning for SEC reporting and capital markets transactions into 2022, we offer our annual SEC Desktop Calendar. This calendar provides both the filing deadlines for key SEC reports and the dates on which financial statements in prospectuses and proxy statements must be updated before use (a/k/a financial staleness deadlines).

What Can We Expect from the SEC with COP26 Around the Corner?

August 23, 2021 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Elizabeth A. Ising; Lori Zyskowski Topic(s): Audit Committee; Corporate Governance; ESG; Securities Regulation

Climate change matters and related calls for regulation are in headlines daily. On August 9, 2021, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the first major international assessment of climate-change research since 2013. The IPCC report will inform negotiations at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, beginning on October 31, 2021 in Glasgow.