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February 2010 Client Alerts

SEC Publishes Interpretive Release on Climate Change Matters 

Yesterday, the SEC published its interpretative release regarding disclosure requirements applicable to climate change matters. The release provides guidance on certain existing disclosure rules that may require a company to disclose the impact that business or legal developments related to climate change may have on its business. 

For more information, please read the client alert published by Bryan Cave LLP’s Corporate Finance and Securities practice on February 3, 2010. 

SEC Amends E-Proxy Rules to Provide Increased Flexibility

Yesterday the SEC approved amendments to the notice and access proxy, or “e-proxy,” rules.  The amendments will provide increased flexibility for companies regarding the format and content of the notice.

For more information, please read the client alert published by Bryan Cave LLP’s Corporate Finance and Securities practice on February 23, 2010.

Federal Judge Rules that Data Backup Tapes Need not be Retained for eDiscovery, Unless They are the Sole Source of Relevant Evidence

Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York has ruled that it is not necessary for the litigants in a case now pending before her to retain and preserve all data backup tapes for eDiscovery:  “I am not requiring that all backup tapes must be preserved.  Rather, if such tapes are the sole source of relevant information (e.g., the active files of key players are no longer available), then such backup tapes should be segregated and preserved.” 

For more information, please read the client alert published by Bryan Cave LLP’s Records Management team on February 9, 2010. 

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January 2010 Client Alerts

IRS Announces New Section 409A Document Correction Program

Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Code Section 409A”) is spectacular in scope and notoriously difficult for even the most well-intentioned employers to satisfy.  Any employer which maintains non-qualified deferred compensation plans for its employees has struggled with Code Section 409A, and may have concerns that some of its plans might not satisfy the attention to minutiae that Code Section 409A demands.  On January 4, the IRS published its long-awaited program for correcting documentation failures under Code Section 409A.

For more information, please read the client alert published by Bryan Cave LLP’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice on January 22, 2010.

Major Campaign Finance Development – Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court Ruling

The Supreme Court yesterday handed down a landmark ruling in the Citizens United v. FEC case which could significantly transform the campaign finance system at the federal level.  In Citizens United, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling struck down the decades-old prohibition on corporate expenditures in connection with federal elections as unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

For more information, please read the client alert published by Bryan Cave LLP’s Election Law and Government Ethics Practice on January 22, 2010. 

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