As 2024 gets off to a busy start, companies, boards and management teams are facing a host of new and developing business issues and a large array of regulatory developments, from new and growing risks and opportunities from the adoption of artificial intelligence, to ever-changing ESG issues and backlash, as well as enhanced focus on government enforcement and review. As has become a tradition, we have asked our colleagues from around our firm to boil down those issues in their fields that boards of directors and senior management of public companies will be facing in the coming year, yielding focused updates in eighteen topics that will surely feature at the top of board agendas throughout the year.Continue Reading Selected Issues for Boards of Directors in 2024

On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or “Commission”) adopted rules to enhance and standardize disclosure requirements related to cybersecurity incident reporting and cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance.Continue Reading New SEC Disclosure Rules for Cybersecurity Incidents and Governance and Key Takeaways

[Note: This post has been updated to reflect the SEC’s approval of the Nasdaq and NYSE amendments.]

On Friday, June 9, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved, on an accelerated basis, each of the Nasdaq Stock Market’s (“Nasdaq”) and the New York Stock Exchange’s (“NYSE”) proposed listing standards, as modified by the Exchanges’ respective amendments from last week, implementing the requirement for issuers to adopt and disclose “no fault” clawback policies providing for the recovery of erroneously awarded compensation.[1]Continue Reading Nasdaq and NYSE Propose October 2, 2023 as Effective Date in Amendments to its Proposed Clawback Listing Standards

We have once again asked our colleagues from around our firm to boil down the issues in their fields that boards of directors and senior management of public companies will be facing in the coming year. In the following pages, we present the results for 2023 – focused updates on 18 topics that will surely feature at the top of board agendas throughout the year.Continue Reading Selected Issues for Boards of Directors in 2023