As described in our earlier blog, the SEC adopted amendments to Rule 16b-3 last month requiring that dispositions by gift of securities previously permitted to be reported on a deferred basis on Form 5 will soon be required to be reported within two days on Form 4.

As reported on Section16.net, Corp Fin apparently…

Last week, the SEC announced that Corp Fin Director Renee Jones would be leaving the SEC in several weeks and return to her old faculty job at Boston College Law School. Even though Renee served in that role at the SEC for less than two years, she shepherded as many rulemakings as someone would typically…

As we blogged back then, the SEC changed its rules last summer to finally mandate the Edgar filing of those few forms that were still being permitted to be filed in paper – mainly Form 144s and glossy annual reports. At the time, the SEC provided a six-month transition period for electronic filings of glossy…

The SEC’s latest Reg Flex Agenda is out. And for those in the throes of the proxy season already, you may not want to read any further. For it seems like the SEC intends to finalize a number of significant rulemakings over the next few months. We’ve barely had time to digest the Rule 10b5-1…

A few weeks ago, BlackRock released its 2023 proxy voting guidelines for U.S. securities – as well as an updated set of its “Investment Stewardship Global Principles.” Here is BlackRock’s summary of those Global Principles and its market-specific voting guidelines (including the U.S. guidelines mentioned above).

The big news is that there…

A few days ago, Nasdaq filed a rule change with the SEC that was declared effective immediately. This rule change was filed to simplify the deadline language of the board diversity listing standards that were adopted in August 2021. The diversity matrix disclosure aspect of the standards became effective in 2022. But, the listing standard…

In anticipation of the upcoming annual reporting and proxy season, this comprehensive new Update from Allison Handy, Erin Gordon, Kristina Daniels, Andrew Pence and Ken Nelson highlight the most significant new rules, policy changes, and proposed rules that you need to know. The Update addresses the following topics:

Yesterday, the SEC adopted new rules that:

• Amend Rule 10b5-1 to add new conditions to the availability of the affirmative defense to insider trading liability,
• Impose new disclosure requirements for periodic reports, proxy and information statements regarding insider trading policies, trading plans of insiders and option grant practices, and
• Amend Section 16 filing requirements.

Here…