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Category: Risk Factors

COVID-19 Drives 600% Increase in Disease-Related Risk Factors

COVID-19 Drives 600% Increase in Disease-Related Risk Factors

COVID-19 Drives 600% Increase in Disease-Related Risk Factors

Want a reminder of how much the world has changed in 2020? Well, we’re giving you one anyway. At this point last year, fewer than 200 public companies cited “health epidemics and diseases” on their annual 10-K as a risk factor facing their...

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Six New Lessons from Latest Round of COVID-19 Comment Letters

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While the COVID-19 outbreak has left many of us hanging around the house for months, that hasn’t stopped the Securities and Exchange Commission from voicing opinions on pandemic-related corporate disclosure. In May, we offered up some preli...

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Five Lessons from Early Comment Letters on COVID-19

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It’s still early, but we’re starting to learn more about how the SEC is policing disclosures around the pandemic. Like the disease itself, SEC comment letters take time to surface, and those we are seeing now are from the early days of the...

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