Make IPOs Great Again: Your First Look at How the Rulemaking Pieces Fit Together
By Liz Dunshee IPO activity is building across sectors, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is ready to meet the moment. Over the past month or so, the SEC has put forward a series of reforms – touching capital markets access, scaled disclosure accommodations, reporting cadence, climate disclosure and enforcement […]
No Pause: Lessons from Concurrent Transactions on the IPO Path
By Liz Dunshee When a late-stage company decides to pursue an IPO, the conventional expectation is that other major transactions – such as acquisitions and financings – either precede or follow. But in some cases, the market and business circumstances demand otherwise. This case study on HawkEye 360’s fast-paced path […]
CapitalXchange Audio – How Proxy Season Is Changing
By Liz Dunshee In this 16-minute CapitalXchange interview, Michael Mencher and Vince Flynn flagged regulatory and investor updates to watch in light of Cooley’s Post-IPO Governance Trends Report. We covered: Listen here: Show notes: The views expressed during interviews are the speakers’ personal views and do not necessarily reflect those […]
CapitalXchange Audio – Whys and Hows of Annual Meetings of Shareholders
By Liz Dunshee For our latest CapitalXchange interview, I spoke with Michael Mencher and Vince Flynn about how newly public companies are navigating annual meetings of shareholders, based on Cooley’s Post-IPO Governance Trends Report. We covered: Listen here: Show notes: The views expressed during interviews are the speakers’ personal views […]
The SEC’s Semiannual Reporting Proposal: Key Takeaways for Companies
By Liz Dunshee The SEC has issued its long-awaited proposal to permit semiannual reporting for US public companies. In this Cooley alert, we share a summary of how the rules would work if adopted as proposed. We also flag open questions that the SEC’s final release may address and issues […]
Nasdaq Raises Bar for SPAC IPOs: What Deal Teams Need to Know
By Liz Dunshee Even as the SEC works to ease disclosure requirements for public companies in an effort to “Make IPOs Great Again” – for example, through yesterday’s proposal to permit semi-annual (rather than quarterly) reporting, which my colleague Broc Romanek summarized in Cooley’s Governance Beat blog and which we […]
Cooley Market Talks – AI and the New Capital Dynamic: IPOs, M&A and What Comes Next
By Liz Dunshee How AI is changing market dynamics With AI transforming capital-raising dynamics and M&A strategies, our clients are navigating a dynamic moment. Yesterday, Cooley Partners Jamie Leigh and Dave Peinsipp were joined by Nicole Irvin and Todd Ebe of Goldman Sachs to discuss how rapidly evolving risks and […]
Improving Public Company Disclosure Requirements: Cooley Weighs In
By Liz Dunshee, Brad Goldberg, Reid Hooper, Justin Kisner, Michael Mencher, Victoria Peluso, Beth Sasfai, Sarah Sellers, Amanda Weiss The SEC is rethinking multiple aspects of its rule book – in ways that could meaningfully improve IPOs and the public company experience. As part of this effort, Cooley recently submitted […]
New Guide: Running a (Successful) Dual-Track Process
By Liz Dunshee With Q1 under our belts, I am revisiting some of the predictions I shared in December from the Berkeley Fall Forum on Corporate Governance. At that time, people were hoping that 2026 would be a year of stability for the political and macroeconomic environment. It hasn’t quite […]
CapitalXchange Audio – Using Your Post-IPO Proxy Statement as a Communication Tool
By Liz Dunshee For our latest CapitalXchange interview, I spoke with Michael Mencher and Vince Flynn about proxy disclosure trends noted in Cooley’s Post-IPO Governance Trends Report. We covered: Listen here: Show notes: The views expressed during interviews are the speakers’ personal views and do not necessarily reflect those of […]