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NYSE and Nasdaq Allow More Time for Companies to Adopt Rule 10D-1 Clawback Policies: What to Do Now

June 8, 2023 | Posted by Ronald O. Mueller Topic(s): Compensation Committee; Corporate Governance; Dodd Frank; Executive Compensation; Financial Statements; Proxy Statements and Annual Meetings; Securities Regulation

This week, both the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”, and together with NYSE, the “Exchanges”) filed amendments with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to provide a delayed effective date for the Exchanges’ proposed listing standards requiring listed companies to adopt clawback policies, as mandated by Rule 10D-1 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934.

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SEC (Finally) Adopts Resource Extraction Disclosure Rules (Again)

December 21, 2020 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Gerry Spedale Topic(s): Audit Committee; Disclosure; Dodd Frank

​On December 16, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC") adopted final rules (available here) requiring certain disclosure by public companies that engage in the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals. Under the final rules, domestic or foreign “resource extraction issuers" (the definition of which is discussed below) will have to file a Form SD on an annual basis that includes information about payments related to the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals that are made to a foreign government or the U.S. federal government.

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SEC To Propose Shareholder Proposal and Proxy Advisory Firm Rule Amendments

May 24, 2019 | Posted by Elizabeth A. Ising; Ronald O. Mueller Topic(s): Corporate Governance; Dodd Frank; Proxy Statements and Annual Meetings; Shareholder Proposals

​On May 22, 2019 the SEC released its Spring 2019 Regulatory Flexibility Agenda (Reg Flex Agenda), available here.   The Reg Flex Agenda identifies rulemaking projects that the SEC expects to address, and classifies those projects as being either in the “Proposed & Final Rule Stages," which reflects those that the SEC expects to propose over the coming year, and “Long-Term Actions," which includes those that the SEC is more likely to address over a longer timeframe. 

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Strengthening U.S. Public Capital Markets – Recommendations from SIFMA Report

May 11, 2018 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Elizabeth A. Ising; Stewart McDowell; Peter Wardle; James J. Moloney Topic(s): Dodd Frank; JOBS Act; Securities Regulation

On April 27, 2018, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (“SIFMA”), the leading industry group representing broker-dealers, banks and asset managers, along with other securities industry related groups, released a report called “Expanding the On-Ramp: Recommendations to Help More Companies Go and Stay Public” (the “Report”).  In response to the decline in the number of IPOs and the number of public companies generally in the United States over the last twenty years, the Report provides recommendations aimed at reducing perceived impediments to becoming and remaining a public company. As the Report notes, the United States is now home to only about half the number of public companies that existed 20 years ago.  This decline is believed to have had adverse repercussions for the American economy generally, and the jobs market specifically.  In addition, the growth of private capital markets at the expense of public capital markets has raised concerns that individual investors are being marginalized.  More specifically, as many of the most innovative companies in the U.S. stay private longer and raise significant amounts of capital privately, the returns generated by such companies appear to accrue disproportionally to institutional, high net worth and other similar investors.

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S&P 500 Pay Ratio Disclosures: Emerging Trends

March 13, 2018 | Posted by Ronald O. Mueller Topic(s): Compensation Committee; Dodd Frank; Executive Compensation; Proxy Statements and Annual Meetings; Securities Regulation

As the 2018 proxy season is now gaining full speed, the first group of the required CEO-to-median employee pay ratio disclosures have made their eagerly-awaited debut.  Gibson Dunn has been tracking all required pay ratio disclosures by S&P 500 and Fortune 100 companies and, while still early, there are a number of key observations and emerging trends from the filings to date.

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SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance Suspends Enforcement of Certain Conflicts Minerals Requirements

April 9, 2017 | Posted by Lori Zyskowski; James J. Moloney; Ronald O. Mueller Topic(s): Dodd Frank; Securities Regulation

It has been an eventful week for those following the conflict minerals rules in the news.  The United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued final judgment in the long-running conflicts minerals litigation (detailed here) and, following a statement by Acting Chairman Piwowar, the Division of Corporation Finance has issued a blanket statement that it will not recommend enforcement of some of the most burdensome requirements of the rules (available here).

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Acting SEC Chair Piwowar Directs Staff to Reconsider Conflict Minerals Rule

February 1, 2017 | Posted by James J. Moloney; Lori Zyskowski Topic(s): Corporate Governance; Dodd Frank; Securities Regulation

On January 31, 2017, the SEC’s Acting Chairman, Michael Piwowar, issued a public statement (available here) that he has directed the Commission’s Staff to reconsider whether the Staff’s prior guidance on conflict minerals disclosures (previously published in April 2014 and available here) is still appropriate and evaluate whether additional relief may be appropriate. 

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SEC Corp Fin Staff Releases Guidance on CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure

October 19, 2016 | Posted by Ronald O. Mueller; Elizabeth A. Ising Topic(s): Compensation Committee; Corporate Governance; Dodd Frank; Executive Compensation; Securities Regulation

On October 18, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) released five Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (“C&DIs”) addressing new Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K regarding CEO pay ratio disclosure.

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One More Time! SEC Seeks to Re-Adopt Resource Extraction Disclosure Rules

December 13, 2015 | Posted by Elizabeth A. Ising; James J. Moloney Topic(s): Dodd Frank; Securities Regulation

On December 11, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose a new rule implementing Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  That provision directs the SEC to promulgate rules requiring “resource extraction issuer[s]” (i.e., issuers that extract natural resources) to disclose payments they make to the U.S. government or foreign governments for the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals.  The SEC’s latest action follows a ruling by a federal district court in Massachusetts directing the SEC to expedite its promulgation of a new rule implementing Section 1504. 

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Massachusetts District Court Orders the SEC to Issue Final Resource Extraction Rule

September 4, 2015 | Posted by Brian J. Lane; Elizabeth A. Ising; Lori Zyskowski; James J. Moloney Topic(s): Dodd Frank; Securities Regulation

On September 2, 2015, following a briefing by Oxfam America, Inc. (“Oxfam”) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or the “Commission”), the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted Oxfam’s motion for summary judgment and ordered the SEC to file with the Court within 30 days “an expedited schedule for promulgating the final [resource extraction] rule.

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