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Partial Shutdown: Potential Impact on SEC Operations

December 24, 2018 | Posted by Andrew L. Fabens; Hillary H. Holmes; Ronald O. Mueller; Stewart McDowell Topic(s): Securities Regulation

A partial shutdown of the federal government began at midnight on December 21, 2018. As a result, the SEC Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) announced that the SEC would “remain fully operational for a limited number of days” from the beginning of the federal government shutdown. The SEC will be closed on December 24th and 25th in observance of the federal holiday. It is expected to have funding to remain in “open” status through the end of December 26th. Should the shutdown continue past the 26th, the SEC’s operating status is expected to change to “closed” and the SEC will begin to operate according to its Operations Plan under a Lapse in Appropriations and Government Shutdown. As currently envisaged, starting on December 27th the SEC “will have only an extremely limited number of staff members available to respond to emergency situations involving market integrity and investor protection, including law enforcement.” Regardless of the SEC’s operating status, the EDGAR filing system will continue to accept reports, registration statements and other filings. Accordingly, public companies must continue to file periodic and current reports when due on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K; however, from December 27th the SEC will not be able to declare registration statements effective nor qualify Form 1-A offering statements. A prolonged shutdown could create difficulties for the IPO market and for many public companies without an effective shelf registration statement and, in particular, would create a complex calculus for any company thinking about going public in January.

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SEC to Reconsider Quarterly Reporting, Solicits Public Comment

December 19, 2018 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Michael A. Titera Topic(s): Corporate Governance; Securities Regulation

On December 18, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a request for comment on earnings releases and quarterly reports, available here.  The request was issued the day before, and in place of, the SEC’s previously scheduled open meeting to consider whether to issue such a request, as discussed here. 

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The Changes Keep Coming: SEC Updates C&DIs and NYSE Updates Rules for Revised “Smaller Reporting Company” Definition

November 14, 2018 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes Topic(s): Corporate Governance; Securities Regulation

On November 7, 2018, the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff") released four updated, and withdrew six, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (“C&DIs") in light of the June 2018 amendments to the definition of a smaller reporting company (“SRC").  We summarized the amendments to the SRC definition in our previous blog post here.

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Desktop Calendar of SEC Deadlines for 2019 Now Available

November 12, 2018 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Peter Wardle Topic(s): Corporate Governance; Securities Regulation

November is a good time to confirm plans for SEC reporting and capital markets transactions in the next year. To assist public companies in keeping track of the various filing deadlines, we have prepared a desktop reference calendar that sets forth filing deadlines for many SEC reports. To assist companies with planning capital markets transactions, including IPOs, our calendar also provides the staleness dates for 2019 (i.e., the last date financial statements may be used in a prospectus or proxy statement without being updated).

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The SEC Adopts Strategic Plan for 2018-2022

October 19, 2018 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Brian J. Lane; Elizabeth A. Ising Topic(s): Corporate Governance; Securities Regulation

​On June 19, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC") published a draft strategic plan outlining the SEC’s priorities through 2022 (the “Plan Draft"). As previously reported, the Plan Draft comprised three broad goals: focusing on retail investors, increasing innovation, and strengthening performance.

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SEC Division of Corporation Finance Provides Interpretive Relief on New Disclosure Requirement

September 25, 2018 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Michael A. Titera; Ronald O. Mueller Topic(s): Securities Regulation

 

On September 25, 2018, the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff") issued a new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (“C&DI") providing transition guidance and relief on reporting requirements under the disclosure update and simplification rules adopted on August 17th, 2018 (the “Final Rules"). As discussed in our recent post (available here), the Final Rules become effective 30 days from publication in the Federal Register, but do not indicate whether the amendments should be applied to periodic reports covering periods ending on or after the effective date or to all periodic reports filed after the effective date. ( As of the date of this posting, the Final Rules have still not been published in the Federal Register.)  The timing is significant because the Final Rules require companies’ quarterly reports on Form 10-Q to include a new statement of changes in stockholders’ equity and to disclose the amount of dividends per share for each class of shares with respect to the interim period. 

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Important Reminders for Upcoming 10-Q Filings

September 13, 2018 | Posted by Ronald O. Mueller; Hillary H. Holmes; Michael A. Titera Topic(s): Securities Regulation

​As calendar year filers begin preparing their Forms 10-Q for the third quarter, there are a few items they should keep in mind.

Potential Impact of SEC’s New Disclosure Update and Simplification Release

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SEC Streamlines Disclosure Requirements as Part of its Overall Disclosure Effectiveness Review

August 27, 2018 | Posted by Hillary H. Holmes; Elizabeth A. Ising; James J. Moloney; Michael A. Titera Topic(s): Miscellaneous; Securities Regulation

On August 17, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission") adopted several dozen amendments (available here) to “simplify compliance without significantly altering the total mix of information" (the “Final Rules").  In Release No. 33-10532, the Commission characterized the amended requirements as redundant, duplicative, overlapping, outdated or superseded, in light of subsequent changes to Commission disclosure requirements, U.S. GAAP, IFRS and technology developments.  

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The PCAOB’s Draft Strategic Plan: Overview and Outlook

August 20, 2018 | Posted by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Topic(s): Audit Committee; Securities Regulation

​On August 10, 2018, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB or Board) released a draft of its five-year strategic plan and sought public comment on the plan through September 10, 2018. This represents the first time that the Board has solicited public input to a draft strategic plan, and follows the Board’s announcement in April of a public survey to permit stakeholder input on the strategic plan even in advance of the draft’s release. In a speech on May 17, 2018, at the Deloitte/University of Kansas Auditing Symposium (Kansas Speech), PCAOB Chairman William D. Duhnke III announced that after the public comment period, the Board plans to finalize the strategic plan in November 2018.[1]

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SEC Modifies XBRL Filing Requirements

August 17, 2018 | Posted by James J. Moloney; Andrew L. Fabens; Michael A. Titera Topic(s): Securities Regulation

​On June 28, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC") adopted a final rule, Inline XBRL Filing of Tagged Data, which substantially alters requirements related to the use of the eXentsible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL") format in operating companies’ financial statement information and funds’[1] risk/return summary information. The rule was published in the Federal Register on August 16, 2018, available here, and will be effective on September 17, 2018.

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