Month: May 2026
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 […]