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SEC Commissioner Speaks at Columbia’s Going Public in the 2020s Conference

Reynolds Holding

When the foundational securities laws were enacted in the early 1930s, there was a significant focus on the individual corporate issuer. One theme of this conference is the general decline in the number of public companies over the past twenty-plus years. In 1996, the number of companies listed on a U.S. operating companies. [5]

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Bracing for Impact: ESG Strategies for an Era of Accelerating Risk

Audit Board

Xpress, Inc. discuss actionable best practices for companies looking to develop or mature their ESG programs, including: Key resources and ways to stay up to date as the ESG landscape rapidly evolves. Pick companies that you compete with that maybe are bigger than you… and really look at what they’re doing.

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Cooley Discusses “Internal Control over Sustainability Reporting”

Reynolds Holding

Under the pressure of institutional investors, environmental groups, employees, consumers and other stakeholders, many companies have sought to demonstrate their bona fides when it comes to ESG through disclosure about their sustainability efforts, goals and achievements, whether in periodic reports or in separate sustainability reports.

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Gibson Dunn Offers 2022 Mid-Year Securities Litigation Update

Reynolds Holding

Gibson, and in the Fifth Circuit on behalf of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Lucia Companies, Inc. Lee Enterprises, Inc. CytoDyn Inc. 13, 2021), which we discussed in our 2021 Year-End Securities Litigation Update, the court declined to apply both the stringent review of Blasius Industries, Inc.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

Value Scope

First, on December 17, 2019, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce went on live television to call for greater oversight of how ESG is used by companies and the investment community. “. there were two inflection points that marked a higher level of discourse. A factor of investment in the market is based on sentiment and belief in performance.

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SEC Commissioner Urges Reform of Regulation D and Private Markets

Reynolds Holding

2] Companies that contemplate going public are now waiting much longer to do so. [3] 4] Companies no longer need to go public to raise enormous amounts of capital. As everyone in this room knows, the foundational U.S. 3] Others are choosing not to go public at all. [4] 6] So, how did we get here?