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The SEC has posted new guidance for issuers related to their Form D filings. The Division of Corporation Finance Guidance on Form D Filing Process explains how to electronically file Form D, a form for a notice required to be filed by companies and funds that have sold securities without registration under the Securities Act […]

So the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed pushing U.S. companies to use International Financial Reporting Standards by 2016. Think you have time to procrastinate for the IFRS mandate likely to arrive sooner or later? Think again. Patrisso Yes, the SEC hasn’t even published the text of its proposing release yet. And even for […]

So the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed pushing U.S. companies to use International Financial Reporting Standards by 2016. Think you have time to procrastinate for the IFRS mandate likely to arrive sooner or later? Think again. Patrisso Yes, the SEC hasn’t even published the text of its proposing release yet. And even for […]

Get ready to get serious about International Financial Reporting Standards: The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a plan that could let a select group of large U.S. companies start using the standards little more than one year from now, and require all domestic public companies to file statements using IFRS by 2016. “The world […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission may have spent most of its time last week mapping out a schedule to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards, but it did also vote to update and modernize the disclosure requirements for foreign issuers offering securities in U.S. markets. The rules adopted Aug. 27 mean foreign reporting companies will be […]

The shift to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is both appropriate and, in any event, ineluctable. It is appropriate because our markets today, more than ever before, are truly global. Investors worldwide need to be able to compare companies across the board, and disparities in accounting conventions will only create major traps for the unwary. […]

Companies now have less than one month until Form D, one of the last paper filings still used by the Securities and Exchange Commission, staggers into the Internet era. The change does not mean companies need to do anything differently right away; they will have the choice of filing Form D electronically as of Sept. […]

Heads up, public registrants: The Securities and Exchange Commission will be firing off a flurry of new rules this fall. That’s according to remarks by John White, head of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance. White outlined the Commission’s priorities Aug. 11 in a speech to the American Bar Association. White One top item on […]

The first full year of “e-proxy rules” has now confirmed the patterns that corporate secretaries have probably been noticing all year: Costs are down, but so is retail voting. Proxy services firm Broadridge estimates that the 653 companies that used notice-and-access through June 30 saved a total of more $140 million on printing and postage […]

Companies with outstanding shelf registrations, take note: Some careful planning now could save issuers seeking fast access to the capital markets some unpleasant timing surprises later, experts warn. Under the reforms to the Securities Act of 1933 adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2005, companies need to re-file certain shelf registration statements at […]