{"id":287,"date":"2020-04-27T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/?p=287"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:27:43","slug":"sec-amendments-to-accelerated-and-large-accelerated-filer-definitions-become-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/2020\/04\/27\/sec-amendments-to-accelerated-and-large-accelerated-filer-definitions-become-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Amendments to Accelerated and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions Become Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, final amendments to the definitions of \u201caccelerated filer\u201d and \u201clarge accelerated filer\u201d under Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 became effective. The SEC adopted the final rule implementing the amendments on March 12, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments are designed to reduce the number of issuers that qualify as accelerated and large accelerated filers, thereby promoting capital formation for certain smaller reporting companies by reducing compliance costs while still maintaining investor protections.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information regarding the amendments, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/sec_amendments_accelerated_large_accelerated_filer_definitions_become_effective_0420.html\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, final amendments to the definitions of \u201caccelerated filer\u201d and \u201clarge accelerated filer\u201d under Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 became effective. The SEC adopted the final rule implementing the amendments on March 12, 2020. The amendments are designed to reduce the number of issuers that qualify as accelerated and large accelerated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/2020\/04\/27\/sec-amendments-to-accelerated-and-large-accelerated-filer-definitions-become-effective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SEC Amendments to Accelerated and Large Accelerated Filer Definitions Become Effective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,6],"tags":[402,403,406,408,404,405,407,19,199,12,177],"ppma_author":[438],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-markets","category-general","category-securities-law","tag-accelerated-filer","tag-large-accelerated-filer","tag-rule-12b-2","tag-amendment","tag-amendments","tag-definitions","tag-icfr","tag-sec","tag-sec-amendments-to-regulations","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-securities-law-2"],"authors":[{"term_id":438,"user_id":283,"is_guest":0,"slug":"bsteinman","display_name":"Barry Steinman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/steinmanbarry-125x150.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/capitalmarkets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}