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Author: Adria Hunter

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Five Takeaways from the SEC’s (Newly Annual) Regulatory Agenda, and What it Says About the Commission’s Priorities

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For decades, federal agencies have, with few exceptions, published the Unified Agenda twice each year: a list of every rule they plan to propose or finalize in the months ahead. It rarely makes headlines, but for anyone building out a discl...

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Corporate Governance Rockets to Top of Shareholder Concerns

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX pulled off a record-setting IPO on June 11, but the debut had at least one pre-launch hiccup. The day before SpaceX went public, index provider MSCI assigned the much-discussed rocket maker a CCC rating—the lowest grade o...

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Data Centers Generate AI—and Risk—for Issuers

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Everybody wants the AI, nobody wants the data center. That may be an oversimplification, but if you read enough securities filings (as we love to) or litigation dockets, you start to realize it’s only a slight one. The opposition to data ce...

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The SEC Rethinks What—and How Often—Public Companies Must Disclose

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The SEC is floating some of the biggest changes to its regulatory framework in two decades, all aimed at the same goal: making it cheaper and less burdensome to be a public company. The most eye-catching piece asks a question that would hav...

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Can the SEC Close the Barn Door on Climate Rules?

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On May 29, the SEC formally proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rules—the “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” finalized back in March 2024. Those rules were among the Gensler-era SEC...

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