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Updating Annual Report Risk Factors

Harvard Corporate Governance

1] Although each company will need to assess its own material risks and tailor its risk factor disclosure to its unique circumstances, this alert provides a list of 10 key developments in Part I and four important drafting considerations in Part II that all public companies should consider as they update their risk factors.

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Gibson Dunn Offers 2022 Mid-Year Securities Litigation Update

Reynolds Holding

This increase is driven primarily by SPAC-related actions in the technology and industrial sectors that have offset a potential decline in actions in the consumer space. Summary of Trend Cases—Core Federal Filings 2018 – June 2022. . B. Settlement Trends. Then, however, the Supreme Court’s decision in Lucia v. SEC , 138 S.

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Gibson Dunn Offers 2022 Year-End Securities Litigation Update

Reynolds Holding

As in 2021 and 2020, the decline in the number of merger-objection cases filed (down to eight from the peak of 205 in 2017) drove the decrease in the total number of new federal class actions filed in 2022 (down to 205 from the peak of 431 in 2018). 38 million is also the highest average settlement value since 2016.