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March 7, 2013

Posted: Notes from “SEC Speaks”

Thanks to Stephanie Bignon, Nishchay Maskay & Keir Gumbs of Covington & Burling, we have posted notes from PLI’s recent SEC Speaks conference about the Corp Fin and Enforcement panels – in addition to other sets of notes from this conference – in our “Conference Notes” Practice Area.

New Iran Disclosures: Over 60 Companies So Far

Over the past few weeks, over 60 companies have disclosed activities involving Iran or certain so-called bad actors. As noted in this memo, it appears from these recent disclosures that multinational issuers with worldwide operations across multiple affiliates have undertaken significant time and expense in collecting data about potentially reportable activities that issuers have never before been required to publicly disclose – including transactions with customers, vendors, and other business partners.

FINRA Plans to Revise QIB Standards on Debt Securities

As noted in this memo, FINRA has proposed changing the markup rule so that it applies to QIBs.

– Broc Romanek