The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted amendments to the definitions of “Accelerated Filer” and “Large Accelerated Filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The SEC originally proposed these amendments in May 2019, as summarized in a prior Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest article. As a result of these amendments, a greater number of smaller companies will be excluded from accelerated and large accelerated filer status, which will ease reporting burdens and reduce compliance costs for those companies.
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SEC Proposes Amendments to Update the Accelerated and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions
By Mark D. Wood, Farzad Damania & Edward Matzner on
Posted in SEC/Corporate
On May 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions in Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Rule 12b-2. The proposed amendments would exclude certain lower-revenues companies from being classified as accelerated or large accelerated filers, which would reduce costs for those companies.
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