Tag: smaller reporting company

Corp Fin updates CDIs related to smaller reporting companies

Corp Fin has posted some updates to its CDIs relating to the new rule amendments regarding smaller reporting companies. (See this Cooley Alert and the SEC’s  Amendments to the Smaller Reporting Company Definition — Compliance Guide.)  In connection with the new updates, Corp Fin has also withdrawn a number of CDIs (presumably, at least in part, because they were no longer appropriate in view of the changes to the rules).  Below are summaries:

Corp Fin issues new compliance guide for smaller reporting companies

Corp Fin has just posted A Small Entity Compliance Guide for Issuers that summarizes the recent amendments to the definition of “smaller reporting company” and related amendments.  (See this PubCo post and this Cooley Alert.) The Guide also provides some clarification regarding timing and transition to the new definition.

Cooley Alert: SEC Expands Eligibility for Smaller Reporting Company Status

And here for your weekend reading pleasure is another Cooley Alert: SEC Expands Eligibility for Smaller Reporting Company Status.  Very relaxing!  

SEC to vote next week on raising the public float cap for smaller reporting companies and mandatory Inline XBRL

The SEC has noticed an open meeting for next week.  Among the matters on the agenda:

whether to adopt amendments to the definition of “smaller reporting company” and other rules and forms in light of the new definition; and
whether to adopt amendments requiring the use of the Inline XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) for the submission of financial statement information.

Treasury report recommends actions to increase access to capital

The Treasury Department recently issued a new report, A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities—Capital Markets, that, in its recommendations, not surprisingly, echoed in many respects the House’s Financial CHOICE Act of 2017. Having passed the House, the CHOICE Act has since foundered in the Senate (see this PubCo post). The recommendations in the Treasury report addressed approaches to improving the attractiveness of primarily the public markets, focusing in particular on ways to increase the number of public companies by limiting the regulatory burden. According to this Bloomberg article, SEC Chair Jay Clayton “called the report ‘a valuable framework for discussion’ among market participants ‘that will most certainly benefit the American people….We appreciate Treasury’s willingness to seek the SEC’s input during the drafting process, and we look forward to working alongside other financial regulators and Congress as we pursue our three part mission to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.’”

Disclosure Modernization and Simplification Act of 2014

by Cydney Posner This week, the House passed the “Disclosure Modernization and Simplification Act of 2014.” Among other things, the bill would require the SEC: To adopt regs to permit issuers to submit a summary page to the Form 10-K that cross-references to the related material contained in the Form […]