This article was originally posted on ILTA.

The COVID-19 experience and its impact on company operations, performance, employees, customers, supply chains and more, is intensifying investor interest in these topics, as well as ESG and Human Capital Management (HCM).

On August 26th, the SEC modernized its disclosure rules under Regulation S-K. Arguably the most dramatic change is that companies are now required to disclose information about their environmental practices and their human capital resources to the extent that these are material to a company’s business as a whole. 

This article was originally posted on Equilar. 

The recent 2020 proxy season occurred during the expanding coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the full outcomes and impacts of which aren’t fully known as of this writing.

The 2020 proxy season has been like no other. COVID-19’s human and economic impacts significantly affected business operations, financial performance and annual meeting processes. In the shorter term, many companies were forced into survival mode, yet investor longer term interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), sustainability and Human Capital Management (HCM) continues to intensify. Companies are responding with enhanced practices and messaging via multiple channels.

With the end of LIBOR fast approaching, many organizations are struggling to find an efficient way to manage the transition. eBrevia hosted a roundtable discussion with senior leaders from PwC and Norton Rose Fulbright to discuss key insights learned from managing the LIBOR transition to date and strategies to complete LIBOR remediation on time.

Speakers: Davide Barzilai, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright & Sally Neal, Retired Partner, PwC

Moderator: Adam Nguyen, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, eBrevia, a DFIN Company

DFIN Input to Rule 498A Could Open the Door to Apps Industry-wide

When rule 30e-3 (also known as the E-Delivery Rule) came into effect, DFIN applauded the cautious step forward but encouraged the SEC to accelerate the wide adoption of modern technology (Read more at Looking Beyond the SEC’s New E-Delivery Rule).

Recently, a surge in AI-powered virtual data rooms (VDRs) have proved helpful in optimizing due diligence tasks like redaction. Data redaction tools have emerged to remove key terms quickly and relatively easily, saving sellers time and energy. Where these tools fall short, however, is in their ability to eliminate much of the manual effort still needed to structure and guide how information is redacted.

Compelling recent developments suggest the tipping point is near for issuers across all sectors, as sustainability performance increasingly becomes part of the core data institutional investors require for their investment analysis, across Passive and Active Fund management.

Our panel looks at how and why corporations are enhancing disclosures on Sustainability reporting using the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Speakers:

From the SEC press release dated March 23, 2020:

SEC Extends Conditional Exemptions From Reporting and Proxy Delivery Requirements for Public Companies, Funds, and Investment Advisers Affected By Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).