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Growth of SPACs Prompts Concerns Over Audit Quality

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Special purpose acquisition companies – more commonly known as SPACs – have seemingly disappeared from the investing scene in recent years. After a tidal wave of SPACs washed over the public markets in 2020 and 2021, they quickly fell out of favor with investors. Lordstown Motors Corp.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

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Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its final climate disclosure rule , attention has turned to the rule’s implementation and impact. to mandate climate-related reporting from large companies. This bill captures more companies, with a lower revenue threshold of over $500 million instead of $1 billion.

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A Comparative Analysis of the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Proposal

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In the global effort to protect the earth’s climate, the pace of regulation is rivaled only by the speed of technological innovation. If CARB does not so indicate, the number of covered companies will be significantly smaller. SEC – Unlike the other three measures, the SEC’s proposed rules would apply only to publicly-traded companies.

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Three Lessons from Early Disclosures of Cybersecurity Incidents

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This seems like a perfect test case for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new cybersecurity disclosure rules. Cybercrimes and ransomware attacks are happening frequently enough in commercial and public spheres that companies are turning them into opportunities to tout their incident response readiness.

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From ESG-Focused Lawsuits to a New Industry Taskforce: The Year in Sustainability

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With the growing importance that consumers and investors, alike, are placing on sustainability and ESG, we take a look at some of the most noteworthy stories in the space that have come about over the past year … . Companies’ S-1 Filings Are Getting Longer, Mentions of ESG Are Increasing.

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As it Files to Go Public, What Does Allbirds Status as a Public Benefit Corporation Really Mean?

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Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday ahead of its impeding initial public offering, which will see the company list on Nasdaq under the ticker “BIRD.” But while much has been made in the media recently of Allbirds’ benefit corporation status and its B Corp. A company’s B Corp. A Signal to the Market.

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Companies’ S-1 Filings Are Getting Longer and Their Mentions of ESG Are Increasing

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After mentioning Environmental, Social, and Governance – or “ESG” – almost 100 times in the nearly 60-page S-1 that it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in August, Allbirds is reigning its sustainability-centric declarations back a bit.