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Michael Goldman counsels businesses and investors on a broad range of general corporate transactions, with a particular focus on the sports and entertainment industry, complex commercial contracts involving unique economic ...
The settlement in House v. NCAA (“House Settlement”) was formally approved by Judge Claudia Wilken on June 6, 2025. The House Settlement is poised to bring significant changes to the landscape of college athletics, with schools now permitted to make direct payments to student-athletes. This shift introduces a range of legal and operational challenges that increasingly mirror the compensation structures of professional sports. Navigating this new environment will require legal and financial expertise traditionally found in the professional sports world. Issues related to contract structuring and enforceability, salary caps, and endorsement deal oversight will become central to how athletic programs operate and make strategic decisions. These concepts extend beyond compliance and will play an integral role in roster building, financial planning, and long-term program sustainability and success.
On May 2, 2022 the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a sample comment letter addressing disclosures companies should consider regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The SEC Staff believes companies should provide detailed disclosures of their direct or indirect exposure to Russia, Belarus, and/or Ukraine including through operations, investments, and potential cybersecurity and supply chain risks. A link to the sample letter is here.
The sample comment letter lists several topics subject to disclosure consideration the SEC Staff will focus on:
- Companies ...
On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) at a virtual open meeting proposed rules to expand and standardize issuers’ climate-related disclosures. The proposed rules would utilize mandatory, prescriptive disclosures in periodic reports and registration statements to address topics related to greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and global climate change. The Commission acknowledged that in 2010, the SEC required disclosure of climate-related impacts on issuers’ businesses but since then, awareness of climate-related incidents, GHG ...
On March 9, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments to rules to expand and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies. The proposed rules respond to investor concerns related to the growing prevalence of cybersecurity incidents, the increasingly sophisticated methods of cyber criminals in executing their attacks, and the susceptibility of public companies of all sizes operating in all industries to cybersecurity incidents that can stem from ...
On September 29, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission released a notice filed by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) of a proposed rule change. The NYSE seeks approval of a proposed amendment to the shareholder voting requirement set forth in Section 312.07 of the NYSE Listed Company Manual (the “Manual”).
Currently, Section 312.07 provides that, where shareholder approval is required for the listing of any new or additional securities, or where any matter requires shareholder approval, including for stock issuances pursuant to an equity compensation plan, the ...
On August 16, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a cease-and-desist order and a $1 million civil penalty on Pearson plc, finding violations of the negligence-based antifraud provisions of the Securities Act.
On March 5, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced it charged AT&T, Inc. and three of its investor relations executives with selectively disclosing material nonpublic information to research analysts in violation of Regulation FD. The SEC’s complaint alleges that to avoid falling short of the consensus revenue estimates for the third consecutive quarter, AT&T investor relations executives made private, one-on-one phone calls to analysts at several firms. According to the complaint, on these calls, the executives disclosed internal smartphone ...
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Recent Posts
- House Settlement Approved: College Sports Transition into a New but Familiar Legal Era
- Checking the Box(es): SEC Issues New Guidance Clarifying Clawback Expectations
- Pay vs. Performance and Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules: Will the SEC Retract Rulemaking?
- Corporate Transparency Act Update: FinCEN Eliminates Reporting Obligations for U.S. Companies and U.S. Persons
- Corporate Transparency Act Update: FinCEN Will Not Enforce the CTA Until Interim Rule is Effective
- Corporate Transparency Act Update: Injunction Lifted - Corporate Transparency Act Back in Effect
- Corporate Transparency Act Update: FinCEN Says Reporting Obligations Remain On Hold
- Next Up in 2025: EDGAR Next
- Corporate Transparency Act Update: Supreme Court Stays Nationwide Injunction – CTA Reporting Obligations Back in Effect
- Corporate Transparency Act Updates: Fifth Circuit Vacates the Stay and Preliminary Injunction Reinstated