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Overview
Preparation and review of this year’s Form 20-F will require foreign private issuers to address and refine disclosures for cybersecurity risks and events, clawback policies and events, and climate related matters. Companies will also need to prepare for new insider trading policy disclosures in 2025. Disclosure considerations for human capital resources, climate-related matters, geopolitical risk, and supply chain disruption continue to evolve – plus they must be tailored to each company’s specific situation. Join Cheryl L. Linthicum of PLI’s SEC Institute and Gary M. Brown of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as they discuss these and other key Form 20-F reporting issues.
In this Briefing faculty will:
- Discuss cybersecurity disclosure considerations and their interplay with related cybersecurity event disclosures on Form 6-K – 10 minutes
- Review clawback policies and clawback disclosure requirements for listed companies – 5 minutes
- Analyze new insider trading policy disclosure requirements for 2025 – 5 minutes
- Review current climate-related and other ESG disclosure requirements – 10 minutes
- Analyze other new and emerging disclosure issues including supply chain disruption and geopolitical risks– 5 minutes
- List expected SEC staff focus areas for 2024 Form 20-Fs, including non-GAAP measures and operating review and prospects– 10 minutes
- Summarize recent enforcement actions that should concern Form 20-F filers – 10 minutes
- Looking forward – climate-related matters and other watch areas – 5 minutes
Who Should Attend: Accountants and attorneys who deal with SEC reporting and disclosure and related accounting issues, including CFOs, controllers and their staff, internal auditors, partners of public accounting firms and their staff, in-house counsel, outside attorneys
Program Level: Update
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None