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SEC pushes for disclosure of hacking incidents
Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. A number of well-known companies, including Zappos.com, Google, Quest Diagnostics, Eastman Chemcial and AIG, have recently experienced actual or potential intrusions into...
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Did Apple violate Regulation FD at its iPhone 5 release conference?
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt Photo by Giandomenico Ricci On September 12, 2012, Apple, Inc. held a highly anticipated conference at which it announced the upcoming release of the latest model of the...
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Cybersecurity issues continue to draw attention
Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. Cybersecurity issues continue to be a hot topic for companies. As discussed in my prior blog posts, “Get ready for increased cybersecurity disclosure requirements” and...
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Careful with that tweet! Social media considerations for public companies
Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. Social media use has experienced a meteoric rise. According to Tweetsmarter (a social media blog), the top five social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+...
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Are political contribution disclosure rules for public companies coming in...
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt Petition and comment letters urging the SEC to create rules requiring public companies to disclose their political contributions may finally be gaining some traction. We...
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Netflix CEO’s Facebook post leads to possible Regulation FD action by SEC –...
Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. The use of social media as a public company information channel encountered a roadblock on December 5, 2012 as Netflix, Inc. and its CEO, Reed Hastings, both received...
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Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. Following up on my post on the subject, I had the chance to speak with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN regarding the SEC sending a Wells notice to Netflix and its CEO over a...
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Proposed campaign contribution disclosure rules may be coming as early as...
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt As first reported by Professors Lucian Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson, Jr. in their recent posting on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial...
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Securities Law 101 (Part III): Watch your mouth! Regulation FD’s impact on...
Posted By: Gregory K. Bader This is the third part of our Securities Law 101 series. Because capital raising is such a critical function for middle market companies, we designed this series to...
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Cybersecurity legislation continues to move forward
Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D., West Virginia), the most vocal proponent of cybersecurity legislation, has renewed his focus on cybersecurity legislation. He has sponsored...
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SEC relaxes restrictions on social media postings (but Regulation FD still...
Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. The SEC tiptoed into the twenty-first century as the agency validated the use of social media sites in certain situations for disclosure of information by publicly traded...
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Social media as a disclosure channel – slow but steady
Posted By: Robert C. White Jr. Public companies are beginning to cautiously adopt social media as a disclosure channel. This area has experienced substantial changes lately as the SEC moved from a...
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Are new Iran-related disclosure requirements turning public companies into...
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt In other breaking news that many may have missed, Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. recently reported in its most recent 10-Q that a handful of employees of a Hilton-branded hotel...
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Recent meeting between the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance...
Posted By: David C. Scileppi On Tuesday, the Securities Law Committee of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals met with officials from the Divisions of Corporation Finance,...
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New SEC Chair: Mary Jo White
Posted By: Gregory K. Bader The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation....
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Time to throw XBRL in the trash bin?
Posted By: David C. Scileppi It has been four years since XBRL became a four letter word to issuers and nearly eight years since the SEC introduced the concept to issuers, yet XBRL hasn’t fulfilled the...
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Hurricanes, flash freezes and other disasters – plan and disclose accordingly...
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt Almost 10 months since Superstorm Sandy caused widespread destruction to the northeastern U.S., an area not known for frequent hurricane activity, the people and businesses...
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Government mandated pay ratio disclosure will fail to achieve its intended...
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt Compensation of public company executives re-emerged back into the public limelight after the recent financial crisis which began in late 2007. The public perception was...
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4th and 108, SEC elects to punt on Regulation S-K disclosure reform
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt Section 108 of the Jump Start Our Business Startups Actrequired the Photo by Duke University Archives SEC to undertake a study of the disclosure requirements of Regulation...
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Institutional investor organization asks the SEC to require disclosure of...
Posted By: Gustav L. Schmidt Photo by Don Urban The compensation disclosure rules contained in Regulation S-K are intended to provide meaningful disclosure regarding an issuer’s executive and director...
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