Last week, the SEC announced settled charges against seven public companies for use of agreements that the SEC alleges have provisions that violate the whistleblower protection rule. 

As Bloomberg Law recently reported, the SEC quietly disbanded its Climate and ESG Task Force, which had been active since March 2021 and played a key role in bringing enforcement actions against misleading environmental, social, and governance disclosures.  

As summer turns into fall and in-house lawyers start thinking ahead to the upcoming 10-K filing season, we’re often asked to review and update the description of securities exhibit(s) required to be filed with Form 10-K by Item 601(b)(4)(vi) of Regulation S-K. 

AI seems to be everywhere at the moment. 

Sustainability is a constant refrain for many companies in the current business environment. 

This is another in a series of blogs we will be posting breaking down the SEC’s new climate disclosure rules (here’s the last blog we posted).

While public companies generally have an exemption from filing beneficial ownership information reports with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), it can be a complicated analysis to figure out what is required for joint ventures, partnerships, and certain other corporate structures. 

Here’s our latest edition of our monthly feature – a quick snapshot of recent developments:

While poking around the SEC's updated website, I was struck that the SEC announced two separate $37 million whistleblower awards little more than a

Here's the intro from this "White Collar Briefly" blog by Spencer Gottlieb: "White-collar criminal prosecutions frequently involve charges under the federal mail and wire fraud statutes.