Month: October 2025

Nasdaq Revisits Listing Requirements (Again): Proposing Stricter Criteria for New and Continued Listings

By Liz Dunshee As I mentioned in Part 1 of this blog, recent proposals and commentary from Nasdaq show that the exchange is focused on encouraging capital formation. That post addressed Nasdaq’s efforts to modernize market infrastructure and make it easier to be a public company. This post discusses proposals […]

Navigating the Government Shutdown: SEC Operations and Your Offering (Live Updates)

SEC Opens Path to Keep IPOs Moving Over the past week, Cooley and other leading law firms have been in discussions with the SEC about ways to mitigate the impact of the government shutdown on the country’s capital markets. The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has now updated its shutdown […]

Nasdaq Revisits Listing Requirements (Again): Proposing Simpler Paths to Going and Staying Public

By Liz Dunshee A series of recent Nasdaq proposals make it more important than ever for smaller companies to closely monitor compliance. At the same time, they show that Nasdaq wants to send a market signal about the quality of its listed companies and encourage capital formation. The recent updates […]