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On October 20, 2025, DLA Piper held a bootcamp for pre-IPO and growth-stage companies in the biotech and medtech industries in the firm’s New York office. Attended by nearly 100 individuals, the bootcamp covered topics including late-stage financings, paths for going public, financial preparedness, regulatory considerations, compliance issues, intellectual property

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US public companies increasingly embrace digital assets as part of their corporate treasury strategies. Known as digital asset treasury (DAT) companies, these public companies, at the core of their revamped business model, pursue long-term accumulation of significant reserves of digital assets while employing sophisticated, yield-enhancing trading strategies.

DATs have raised

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At 12:01am ET on October 1, 2025, a federal government shutdown went into effect. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has posted an announcement and Q&A regarding the activities of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) during the ongoing shutdown.

According to the Q&A, the Division’s activities are limited

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On September 4, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the publication of its Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which sets forth its rulemaking priorities for the next several months.

In a statement, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins noted that the agenda represents the

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On August 13, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the creation of a Statistics & Data Visualizations page on its website. The page provides statistics on capital formation, market participants, market activity, and investors, aided by interactive charts, tables, and graphs that reveal key US capital markets

Continue Reading New SEC data page reveals 18-percent decline in the number of reporting companies over the last two decades and other key capital market trends

Adopted in July 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s cybersecurity disclosure rules require public companies to report material cybersecurity incidents on Form 8-K and to annually report on their cybersecurity risk management and governance.

However, recent developments – including SEC Chair Paul S. Atkins’s appointment in April 2025

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The Governor of Delaware has signed into law Senate Bill 21 (SB 21), which amends certain sections of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) governing controlling stockholder transactions under DGCL Section 144 and stockholder demands for books and records under DGCL Section 220.

Signed on March 25, 2025, these amendments

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The staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) relating to the clawback disclosures required in an issuer’s annual report on Form 10-K and proxy statement. In addition to the April 11, 2025 issuance

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On April 10, 2025, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a statement (Staff Statement) expressing its observations regarding certain disclosure requirements under the federal securities laws regarding the offering and registration of securities in the crypto asset markets.

The

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The Division of Corporation Finance at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued guidance regarding the application of federal securities laws to certain stablecoins.

While this guidance, released on April 4, 2025, expresses only the views of the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance and is not

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