Audit Board

AUGUST 10, 2023

Around the world, priority has been placed on sustainability and human rights, driving the focus on ESG reporting. The “S” in ESG covers civil rights; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); human rights; human capital, and even healthcare-related topics. What Are ESG Metrics?

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Audit Board

JUNE 14, 2023

With over 90% of the S&P publishing ESG reports to demonstrate their commitment to civil and environmental matters, enterprises and their decision-makers should consider whether ESG reporting will or should be part of their public reporting. Lack of transparency around ESG topics could even push stellar candidates away.

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 16, 2022

HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued guidance to help health care providers and health plans understand how they can use remote communication technologies to deliver audio-only telehealth services in compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security rules. Available at [link].

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The pace and breadth of these proposals has expanded in the ensuing years, with a significant number of shareholder proposals focused on two topics—political contributions and lobbying expenditures. But some demands may impose significant burdens on the corporation.

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Appraisers Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

The blog states that “We value robust & civil discourse”…”please avoid personal attacks” So, since this is supposed to be a peer post, it would be helpful if it stayed within that realm. Condition of sale, time, location, type of ownership, site, view, etc.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 5, 2023

DOJ’s recent corporate enforcement actions, like the ones I mentioned a few minutes ago, illustrate the enormous gulf between outcomes for companies that do the right thing – that step up and own up – and companies that do the opposite. Nor will anything in this policy impact civil merger enforcement.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The final rule also signals that future rulemakings will be necessary to harmonize FinCEN’s 2016 customer due diligence rule (the CDD Rule) with the final rule and address information security and access rights. a grantor or settlor who has the right to revoke the trust or otherwise withdraw the assets of the trust. presence; and.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 24, 2024

Disclosure-Related Rulemaking Just as we’ve done in the past, these last two years we’ve adopted rules providing investors with disclosures on emerging risks like climate and cybersecurity; capital raising technologies, like special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs); and an age-old topic—executive compensation. 33-4936 (Dec. 17, 1968)].

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IVSC

OCTOBER 21, 2023

We are in often unpredictable environments and face rapidly changing security risks, political and civil unrest, and evolving climate risks. In these countries, our facilities require long-term leases, host government approvals, and the rights under our leases may be at the whim of the presiding regime. In 2020, the U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Except when the plaintiff is required to show a “strong inference” of fraud (which is unnecessary in a Section 11 case), neither federal civil procedure nor the PSLRA requires the plaintiff to prove any form of intent at the motion to dismiss stage. Such arguments strike us as lacking merit. As for discovery, here too the SEC can play a role.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 13, 2023

In addition, the targeted employee oftentimes has rights and the ability to seek and obtain discovery of relevant materials, which most likely would include the company’s underlying investigation and communications with the government.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 21, 2022

It could also strengthen our ability to deter lawbreaking, given that first- time violators of duly promulgated trade regulation rules—unlike most first-time violators of the FTC Act11—are subject to civil penalties. The FTC’s penalty offense authority also provides a basis for seeking civil penalties from some first-time violators.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 16, 2023

Emphasizing that Congress had taken the unusual step of affording litigants a right to an interlocutory appeal on arbitrability, the Court further reasoned that this right would be largely pointless absent an automatic stay, with “many of the asserted benefits of arbitration (efficiency, less expense, less intrusive discovery, and the like).

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Aspects of the decision in Goldstein suggest this is a topic that the court may be interested in exploring more in the future. As described below, the SEC announced in May 2022 that it had filed a complaint against SCWorx and Schessel and that the company agreed to a $125,000 civil penalty. at *2–3, *46, *50. at *2, *47. Berman , No.

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ThomsonReuters

AUGUST 16, 2021

In addition, please reach out to a sales or service specialist at Thomson Reuters Checkpoint for information on how our products can help you navigate through payroll tax and non-tax topics. Other laws, not in EEOC’s jurisdiction, may place additional restrictions on employers.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Through pronouncements, boycotts, sponsorships, lobbying, investments, and divestment, businesses and their executives are at the forefront of some of the most important and contentious issues of our time, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to voting rights to gender equity. Throughout U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 25, 2022

In this article, we begin with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regulations that mandate risk disclosures, and the federal statutes that create civil liability for misleading statements. 2014) (violations of Section 303 do not give rise to private right of action under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5) with Stratte-McClure v.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 27, 2023

Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities Act provide a private right of action for alleged misstatements in a registration statement or prospectus by plaintiffs who purchased “such security.” June 15, 2022): In at least one action, investors challenged corporate commitments on ESG- related topics. 77k(a) (Section 11); 15 U.S.C. §77

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The SEC’s statutory authority over disclosure is broad by congressional design, extending not just to information relevant to investor trading decisions but also to information investors use in exercising their voting rights.

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Audit Board

AUGUST 31, 2023

Best Practices for Getting Started With ESG Compliance What is the most important thing to get right early on? Reporting Scope - EU The CSRD uses the term “sustainability matters,” which covers various ESG topics including, among others, climate-related or environmental issues (e.g., board diversity).

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 30, 2023

The recent controversy involving public speech at Stanford Law School suggests an appropriate, and pressing, topic to be addressed by the corporate social voice. Consistent with recent practice, corporations can serve their stakeholders by using the Stanford example to promote the civic importance of freedom of speech.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 29, 2022

As a result, shareholders were presented with more proposals on a wider range of topics with which they disagreed, with overall levels of voting support dropping notably. At the same time, recent amendments to Rule 14a-8 had only a very minor impact on shareholder submissions. Top Shareholder Proposals Submitted to Public Companies.

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 7, 2021

33-10825 , Modernization of Regulation S-K Items 101, 103, and 105 , by adding ESG disclosure topic human capital management (HCM), intended to cover material “measures or objectives that address the attraction, development, and retention of personnel” (available on Thomson Reuters Checkpoint , together with the SEC guidance discussed herein).

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ThomsonReuters

AUGUST 15, 2022

The EEOC is a federal agency established through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. California now requires employers with 100 or more employees to report pay and hours-worked data by establishment, job category, sex, race, and ethnicity to the Civil Rights Department (CRD) annually. Interested in payroll topics?

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 7, 2023

Companies, banks, insurers and asset managers are increasingly working together within their industries on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) initiatives to achieve shared goals on climate change, labor rights and other social issues. In October, 19 state attorneys general issued civil investigative demands to the six largest U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 8, 2024

In its most recent May 7 letter , the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education (OCR) issued guidance reaffirming the importance of “different treatment analysis.” Faculty Governance Requires Faculty Accountability Getting the facts right is not just a quibble over details. A parting thought.

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