Tag: FOIA
A tiny nugget from the SEC’s new FOIA rules
Yesterday, the SEC posted final amendments to its rules related to FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act, to conform to the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 and to otherwise update and streamline the regulations. The changes will become effective 30 days after publication in the Federal Register. Due to the scope of the amendments, these final FOIA rules replace the SEC’s existing FOIA rules in their entirety, revamping the organization of the rules. What does that mean? It means that your standard form FOIA SEC rule references are probably soon to be out of date.
Corp Fin posts FAQs regarding extension of process for confidential submission of draft registration statements
On June 29, Corp Fin announced that it was extending the process for confidential submission of draft registration statements, currently available only for IPOs of emerging growth companies, to IPOs of companies that are not EGCs, as well as for most follow-on offerings made in the first year after going public. The extension of this confidential process will allow more companies to defer the public disclosure of sensitive or competitive information until they are almost ready to market the offering—and potentially to avoid the public disclosure altogether if they ultimately decide not to proceed with the offering. The new process will become available on July 10, 2017. (See this PubCo post.) Subsequently, Corp Fin issued a series of FAQs to provide additional guidance.
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