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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

Antitrust enforcement agencies have recently asserted that private equity firms deserve heightened scrutiny when engaging in corporate transactions. However, in the recent Change Healthcare decision, the Court found that a proposed divestiture to a private equity sponsor would adequately preserve competition. Rejecting the DOJ’s arguments to the contrary, the Court found that the sponsor’s “incentives…

As you are likely aware, the SEC published in March 2022 an ambitious proposal to require public companies to provide climate-related disclosures. If the proposal is adopted – which seems likely, at least in some form – it will place heavy new demands on public companies and require them to provide climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports filed with the SEC.
Continue Reading Cleary Submits Comments on SEC Climate Proposal

In March 2022, the SEC proposed a package of rules and rule amendments governing special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), SPAC initial public offerings (IPOs) and SPAC mergers with a target company (de-SPACs).  Among those provisions was proposed new Rule 140a, which would provide that any underwriter in a SPAC IPO that “takes steps to facilitate…

The SEC published in March 2022 an ambitious proposal to require public companies to provide climate-related disclosures. If the proposal is adopted – which seems likely, at least in some form – it will place heavy new demands on public companies and require them to provide climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports…

On April 21, 2022, Cleary Gottlieb partners Nicolas Grabar and Francesca Odell, and associate Shuangjun Wang participated in the Governance Watch Webcast, “Briefing on Proposed SEC Climate-Related Disclosure Rules,” organized by Cleary and The Conference Board ESG Center.

The discussion focused on the long-awaited SEC proposal on climate-related disclosure rules, how companies should get…