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Cybersecurity is an increasingly important topic for public companies and their directors and officers. The Securities and Exchange Commission's new guidance on cybersecurity serves as a good occasion for a [...]

Securities Act registration of interests in employee benefit plans has become more of a compliance exercise than a way to protect employee investors. It may be time to explore a [...]

Byline: Keith Higgins Digital transformation is accelerating amid the pandemic and manufacturers are increasingly deploying digital tools to remain competitive. Part one explored three habits of transformational leaders. Here are [...]

Byline: Keith Higgins With the IIoT market expected to grow from $77.3 (https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/industrial-internet-of-things.asp) billion in 2020 to $110.6 (https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/industrial-internet-of-things.asp) billion by 2025, 73% (https://www.themanufacturinginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MI-Smart-Factory-4IR-Report.pdf) of manufacturers plan to increase their [...]

As the SEC completes its mandatory rulemaking under the Dodd-Frank Act, the Director of its Division of Corporation Finance provides insight into the Division's next steps. Among the issues to [...]

A matter of considerable interest in today's corporate governance is the relationship between shareholders and management. Corporations are creatures of state law and the substantive and procedural parameters that define [...], The Commission is undertaking a review of the proper scope and application of the Rule 14a-8 (i) (9) exclusion, which deals with shareholder proposals that 'directly conflict' with the company's own proposal to be submitted to shareholders. In a recent speech, the Director of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance outlines the issues being considered.

The Facebook initial offering (IPO) has raised questions about how IPOs are sold and to whom information is disseminated. How do SEC rules concerning selective disclosure and the disclosure of [...]

What has changed over the past 25 years is not only the length and complexity of disclosure documents but also completely new disclosure regulations, such as Regulation FD to combat [...]

Top-up options are now a standard feature in business combinations structured as tender offers. Although the device has been around for some time, top-up options have in the past several [...]

Delaware Vice Chancellor Laster's opinion in In re Revlon, Inc. Shareholders Litigation is a mandatory read for transactional lawyers and deal litigators. In his March 16, 2010 decision, he ordered [...]

At the meeting of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association in New York on August 11, 2008, John W. White, [...]

The SEC recently shortened the holding under Securities Act Rule 144 and made other changes that remove restrictions on secondary market trading. This should help the SEC accomplish its goal [...]

The SEC has issued proposed revisions to the reporting and qualified benefit plan provisions of section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in an attempt to reduce compliance burdens. The proposal would eliminate reporting of securities transactions for terminated officers and directors and for trustees that are also insiders. The exemptions for securities transactions under benefit plans have been expanded. Exemptions are available for intra-plan transactions, acquisition transactions and distributions to employees from the plans.

At the American Bar Association Spring Meeting in Dallas, Texas on April 11, John White, the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance was recovering from knee surgery and was [...]

The hardest place to see a forest is in the middle of the trees, and the toughest time to recognize change is in the midst of it. In competitive markets, […]

As the DSL subscriber base grows, service providers face rising expectations from their customers, who increasingly regard high-speed Internet access as a commodity. To compete successfully, DSL service providers must […]