Updates & Insights

Climate Change and Corporate Governance – Where is the intersection for public companies?

 A new 3-part webinar series from Toppan Merrill provides a roadmap to building, enhancing and future-proofing an ESG disclosure strategy...

September 9, 2022 Clockwork Admin

Guide to M&A transactions: M&A types, corporate examples and process

M&A transactions (mergers and acquisitions) are typically the largest transaction types in the corporate world — and both the number...

September 9, 2022 Toppan Merrill

Pay Versus Performance: SEC modernization brings Inline XBRL tagging to the proxy statement

The SEC adopted a significant new rule, Pay Versus Performance, on Thursday, August 25, 2022 requiring companies to disclose information...

August 30, 2022 Toppan Merrill

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act – we’ve come a long way since 2002

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in 2002. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was born, and with it, the...

August 1, 2022 Elizabeth Epler Jones, CPA - Partner, AXIA Partners

Keys to ESEF iXBRL filing success based on Year 1 implementation

I had the opportunity to be a part of a webinar series hosted by Accountancy Europe that focused on success...

July 26, 2022 Bartek Czajka - Director of XBRL Consulting Services

EDGAR modernization continues: Form 144 moves from paper to structured data XML

In 2021, the SEC received over 30,000 Form 144 filings. Of those, only 234 were submitted electronically on the EDGAR...

July 8, 2022 Jennifer Froberg - Sr SEC Product Specialist

A guide to de-SPAC transactions and how the process works

While both a traditional IPO and a SPAC IPO (with a de-SPAC transaction) are vehicles to bring a company public,...

June 23, 2022 Toppan Merrill

Building business advantage through effective ESG Disclosure: A 3-part webinar series

The rising importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure hit a tipping point in the last year. Entering a...

June 1, 2022 Toppan Merrill

SEC fee payment method changes effective May 31, 2022

In 2021, the SEC adopted a significant final rule, Filing Fee Disclosure and Payment Methods Modernization, to modernize how companies...

May 25, 2022 Jennifer Froberg - Sr SEC Product Specialist

Inline XBRL taxonomy for closed-end funds (CEFs) and business development companies (BDCs)

In 2020, the SEC adopted a final rule, Securities Offering Reform for Closed-End Investment Companies, modernizing disclosure and the offering...

May 20, 2022 Jennifer Froberg - Sr SEC Product Specialist