Partner Rob Evans (New York-Capital Markets) spoke at Thomson Reuters’ 35th Annual Federal Securities Institute on February 7 in Miami, FL. This leading corporate and securities law seminar provided insights from top experts and authorities throughout the country, including regulators, judges, corporate counsel, and plaintiff and defense litigators.

Evans spoke on the panel titled “2017 Hot Spots in Public Company Reporting & Disclosure (and Accounting too!),” which addressed the latest challenges of being a public company, including: 

• Disclosure Effectiveness: What to Do Now!
• Non-GAAP Disclosures: Responding to the New SEC Guidance
• Corp Fin Reviews in 2017: Everything From Navigating the Process to Comments to Expect
• New Accounting Standards and Auditing Developments: A Securities Lawyer’s Roadmap
• Being a Smaller Reporting Company: Using the Scaled Disclosure System
• Executive Compensation Hot Spots: Pay Ratio, Clawbacks, Pay for Performance Disclosures
• Frontiers in SEC Disclosure: Sustainability, Cybersecurity, Board Diversity