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Oct
23
2019
SEC Expands “Testing-the-Waters” Accommodation to All Issuers, Regardless of EGC Status Jones Walker LLP
Feb
26
2024
SEC Expected to Drop Scope 3 GHG Emissions Disclosure Requirements From Final Climate Rule Mintz
Dec
8
2023
SEC Expected to Vote on Proposed Climate Disclosures by April 2024 Mintz
May
26
2015
SEC Explains Rationale in Forum Selection in Contested Cases Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jan
16
2015
SEC Extends AML Relief for Broker-Dealer CIP Reliance on Advisers Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Apr
6
2013
SEC Extends Compliance Date for Certain Large Trader Requirements Katten
May
6
2019
SEC Extends Compliance Date for Regulation NMS Changes Katten
Mar
26
2020
SEC Extends Conditional Regulatory Relief and Issues Disclosure Guidance Regarding COVID-19 ArentFox Schiff LLP
Feb
9
2014
SEC Extends Exemptions for Security-based Swaps - Securities and Exchange Commission Katten
Feb
2
2013
SEC Extends Expiration Date for Interim Final Rules Providing Exemptions for Security-Based Swaps Katten
Jun
30
2020
SEC Extends Guidance for Email Paper Documents & Manual Signatures Required Mintz
Sep
24
2012
SEC Extends Municipal Advisor Final Rulemaking Deadline One Year Bracewell LLP
Jan
19
2013
SEC Extends No-Action Letter Permitting Broker-Dealers to Rely on Certain Investment Advisers to Conduct Customer Identification Program Obligations Katten
Sep
28
2017
SEC Extends No-Action Relief Under The Loan Rule Faegre Drinker
Sep
25
2018
SEC Extends Registration Requirements for Investment Companies and Broker Dealers to ICO/Crypto Firms Proskauer Rose LLP
Mar
18
2020
SEC Extends Regulatory Relief for Funds and Advisers Impacted by Coronavirus Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Jul
6
2020
SEC Extends Relief from 1940 Act In-Person Voting Requirements Vedder Price
Mar
30
2020
SEC Extends Reporting Exemptions and Issues COVID-19 Disclosure Guidance Jones Walker LLP
Sep
18
2015
SEC Extends Specified Temporary Relief Related to Security-Based Swaps Katten
Jan
7
2013
SEC Extends Sunset Date for Temporary Rule Regarding Principal Trades with Certain Advisory Clients Katten
Nov
18
2019
SEC Extends Temporary Relief for MiFID II-Compliant Research Payments Vedder Price
Mar
30
2020
SEC Extends Temporary Relief for Public Companies and Registered Investment Advisers Affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Robinson & Cole LLP
Jan
13
2015
SEC Extends Temporary Rule Regarding Adviser Principal Trades Vedder Price
Feb
25
2022
SEC Extends Virtual Shareholder Meeting Guidance Nelson Mullins
Mar
24
2011
SEC Extracts Fines, But Not Confessions Center for Public Integrity
Sep
16
2022
SEC Eyes Further Crypto Regulation as Concerns over Conflicts of Interest Loom Proskauer Rose LLP
Oct
17
2014
SEC Faces New Constitutional Challenge to Administrative Proceedings Based on Tenure Protection of Administrative Law Judges Faegre Drinker
Oct
1
2011
SEC Fee Rate Adjustment for Section 6(B), Section 13(E) and Section 14(G) To Be Effective October 1, 2011 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
7
2023
SEC Files Desist & Refrain Order Against Coinbase Alleging Failure To Qualify Staking Rewards Program Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jun
24
2014
SEC Files First Antiretaliation Enforcement Case Against Hedge Fund Advisory Firm Faegre Drinker
Aug
18
2017
SEC Files Fraud Charges Against Registered Representatives in Connection with Investments by Federal Employees in Variable Annuities Vedder Price
Jan
14
2023
SEC Files Subpoena Enforcement Action Against Covington & Burling, Seeking Names of Clients Impacted by Chinese State-Sponsored Cyberattack Winstead
Nov
13
2019
SEC Files Suit Against Company For Allegedly Impeding Investors From Blowing the Whistle Proskauer Rose LLP
Jun
2
2021
SEC Files Suit Against Five Alleged Promoters of Crypto Lending Program Nelson Mullins
Mar
9
2017
SEC Final Rules on Hyperlinking in Registration Statements: Link to the Past (and Present) Foley & Lardner LLP
Dec
3
2021
SEC Finalizes Amendments to Implement Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act Requirements Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Sep
25
2020
SEC Finalizes Changes to the Requirements for Submission of Shareholder Proposals: Prepare for 2022 Proxy Season Jones Walker LLP
Aug
1
2023
SEC Finalizes Cyber Rules for Public Companies: What You Need to Know Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jul
28
2023
SEC Finalizes Cybersecurity Rule: What It Means Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Jul
13
2012
SEC Finalizes Dodd-Frank Independence Rules Under Section 952 McDermott Will & Emery
Nov
28
2022
SEC Finalizes Expanded Proxy Voting Reporting and New Say-On-Pay Reporting Requirements K&L Gates
Oct
27
2022
SEC Finalizes Major Changes to Shareholder Report Disclosure Scheme and Investment Company Advertisement Rules K&L Gates
Mar
8
2024
SEC Finalizes Much-Anticipated Climate Disclosure Rules Katten
Aug
1
2023
SEC Finalizes New Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Rules for Public Companies Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Aug
25
2023
SEC Finalizes New Data Breach Reporting and Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules; NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Keller and Heckman LLP
Aug
25
2023
SEC Finalizes New Data Breach Reporting Rule; NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Keller and Heckman LLP
Aug
7
2015
SEC Finalizes Rule on Pay Ratio Disclosure Katten
Aug
7
2015
SEC Finalizes Rules Regarding Disclosure of CEO Pay Ratio—What They Require, What to Do and What’s Next McDermott Will & Emery
Aug
7
2015
SEC Finalizes the CEO Pay Ratio Rule – Additional Executive Compensation Disclosure for Public Companies Beginning in 2017 Mintz
Jan
5
2021
SEC Finalizes Updates to Advertising and Cash Solicitation Rules Vedder Price
 

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