On November 13, 2024, during the Practising Law Institute’s 56th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, a panel discussed critical updates in accounting and auditing, emphasizing the evolving landscape shaped by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), including the below.

  1. Segment Reporting (ASU 2023-02).  This update mandates

Mayer Brown is a sponsor of this year’s Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute. Delivering a timely analysis of critical corporate and securities law issues and developments confronting public corporations, the Garrett Institute provides both private practitioners and corporate counsel an opportunity to hear from SEC officials and

For decades, corporate merger and acquisition deals have been plagued by meritless claims asserting, typically, that the companies and their officers and directors have provided insufficient disclosures. Courts have sought to crack down on these lawsuits, but—as in the game of whack-a-mole—the plaintiffs bringing these lawsuits have adjusted their tactics to avoid the judicially imposed

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has adopted new rules that require public companies to disclose substantial information about the material impacts of climate-related risks on their business, financial condition, and governance (the “Final Rules”).  The SEC says that “climate-related risks, their impacts, and a public company’s response to those risks can significantly affect

Companies will be affected in a variety of ways by the receivership of Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and any other similarly situated financial institution. Companies may face difficulty accessing cash deposits, bank facilities or the capital markets or limitations on money market transactions or commercial paper facilities. Companies may also face losses on investments

Historically, directors have been protected from personal liability in connection with risk management by the high standard set in the seminal 1996 Caremark case. In recent years, however, courts have held that certain plaintiffs have pled facts sufficient to avoid dismissal of suits seeking to hold directors liable for failing to discharge their oversight duties.