2/13/2025 3:20:05 PM The Life Sciences IPO Market Is Off to a Solid Start in 2025 - Is Your Company Ready? By Rob Freedman Various biotech companies have completed or launched their IPOs so far in 2025. As of early February, five sizeable life sciences...
2/10/2025 2:29:46 PM California’s Climate-Related Disclosure Laws Live To Fight Another Day By Wendy Grasso On February 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted a motion to dismiss filed by the California...
2/5/2025 5:57:03 PM New York Reintroduces Climate Disclosure Bills By Wendy Grasso As in-scope companies prepare to begin publishing climate disclosures in California in 2026 (assuming these laws survive the ongoing...
1/29/2025 5:49:00 PM SEC rescinds SAB 121—What it Means for Financial Institutions and Crypto Exchanges By Ran Ben-Tzur Kevin Kirby Matthew Dimon Hector Velez +1 more... Show less What You Need to Know Controversial Securities and Exchange Commission accounting guidance known as SAB 121 has been rescinded. SAB 121...
1/28/2025 8:12:39 PM SEC Approves Nasdaq Proposal to Remove Board Diversity Rules By Wendy Grasso The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as expected, has approved Nasdaq's recent proposal to remove the board diversity rule from...
1/23/2025 4:14:41 PM Nasdaq Proposes Eliminating Board Diversity Disclosure Rule By Wendy Grasso Last week, Nasdaq filed a proposed rules change with the Securities and Exchange Commission to remove the board diversity rule from...
1/17/2025 8:43:36 PM Study Suggests That Investors View ESG as a Luxury Item By Wendy Grasso Stanford Business recently posted an interesting article describing the results of a three-year study conducted to analyze American...
1/17/2025 5:10:26 PM Judge Finds American Airlines Breached its Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty by Allowing Investment Manager to Prioritize ESG Goals with 401(k) Plan Assets By Wendy Grasso On January 10, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas found that American Airlines and its employee benefit...
1/16/2025 4:38:15 PM FAR Council Withdraws Proposed Greenhouse Gas Disclosure Rule By Wendy Grasso In yet another example of the United States' federal pull back on climate change disclosure laws, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory...
1/16/2025 3:22:09 PM U.S. Supreme Court Allows Honolulu's Lawsuit Against Oil and Gas Companies to Proceed in State Court By Wendy Grasso On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will not hear an appeal from certain major oil and gas companies to dismiss a lawsuit...
1/10/2025 8:24:27 PM ESG Trends to Watch in 2025 By Wendy Grasso ESG Dive posted an interesting article yesterday on trends to watch in 2025. With the upcoming change in presidential administrations,...
1/7/2025 9:49:08 PM 2025 Reporting Season: Upcoming Disclosure Requirements for Your Form 10-K and Proxy Statement By Ran Ben-Tzur Amanda Rose David Bell Wendy Grasso Merritt Steele +2 more... Show less The following new disclosure will be required in companies’ upcoming Forms 10-K (FY 2024) and/or proxy statements: Upcoming Disclosure...