Outside legal counsel will likely never put it so bluntly, but whenever a new regulation emerges one of their tasks is to determine how much wiggle room a company can count on.
Analysis of recent Securities and Exchange Commission rulemaking on the tracking and disclosure of the use of so-called “conflict minerals” in the supply chain, however, has been less about looking for loopholes and more about trying to decipher its many ambiguities and gray areas that are open to interpretation.
