Statute - Rules Index

• Indexes Topic Pages which provide in-depth coverage

Representative Topic Pages

• Foreign Private Issuers
• FPI Deregistration
• Rule 144A
• Regulation FD
• Regulation M
• Regulation S
• FPI Deregistration

SEC Rule-Making

• Tracks SEC rule-making developments

Underwriting agreements

Securities Offering Reform

Other representative Topic Pages

• WKSIs  (Issuer categories - 33 Act)
• Accelerated filers (Issuer categories - 34 Act)
• Integration
• A/B exchange offers
• Directed share programs
• NASD corporate financing rule
• Worldcom case
• Due diligence

Fairness opinions

Best-price rule

Other representative Topic Pages

• Voting agreements
• In re Tele-Communications
• Disclosure of contractual provisions (Titan)
• Private equity
• Financing conditions
• Stapled financing

• What's New - M&A

Sample Deal Pages

• HCA buyout
• Freescale Semiconductor buyout
• Cash election mergers

XBRL

New SEC disclosure rules
Re: executive compensation and related person transactions

• SEC adopting release  Rel 33-8732
• S-K 402  Executive compensation disclosures
• S-K 402(b) CD&A
• S-K 402(c)  Summary compensation table
• S-K 404  Related person disclosures
• S-K 407  Corporate governance disclosures

Other representative Topic Pages

• Disclosure controls
• Risk factors
• Internet proxy availability
• Nasdaq becomes a national securities exchange

Annotated SEC forms

• Form 10-K
• Form 10-Q
• Form 8-K

MD&A Topic Pages

• Executive overview
• Off-balance sheet obligations
• Contractual obligations table
• Critical accounting policies
• Market risk

Representative corporate governance Topic Pages

• Nominating committees
• Ethics codes

Other representative Topic Pages

• In re Disney

• Majority voting
• Restrictions on discretionary voting (NYSE Rule 452)
• Delaware law changes
• AFSCME v AIG  - Rule 14a-8(i)(8)

Co-Chairs

• Ashley Alder  Herbert Smith
• William Barron  Davis Polk 
• Matthew Bersani  Shearman & Sterling

Speakers

• William Chua  Sullivan & Cromwell
• John Crowley  Davis Polk
• Michael Fosh  Herbert Smith
• William Gee  PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Teresa Ko  Freshfields
• John Moore  Herbert Smith
• Martin Rogers  Clifford Chance
• Steve Winegar  Goldman Sachs
• Jennifer Wu  EDGAR Online

• Benita Yu  Slaughter and May

RR Donnelley Sessions