SEC Propose Amendments to Schedule 13D & G Reporting On the 10th February 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced proposals amending the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting under Exchange Act Sections 13(d) and 13(g). The proposed amendments to Regulation 13D-G would: Accelerate the filing deadlines for Schedules 13D and 13G beneficial ownership reports;…
Foreign investment and sensitive sectors regimes enable government across the world to scrutinise foreign shareholders investing in sectors considered sensitive in the particular jurisdiction. We have seen the number of regimes significantly increase and scrutiny intensify throughout 2020. November, however, appears to have been a bumper month in terms of foreign investment developments tracked by our Regulatory Research Team. Below we highlight the top 5 shareholder disclosure FI developments we tracked through November.
On 11th November 2020, the UK Government introduced the long-awaited National Security and Investment Bill in the House of Commons. The Bill provides the government with new powers to screen investments, and aims at tightening the rules governing foreign investment across Britain’s critical infrastructure and parts of its defence industries.
In July, the SEC announced proposed amendments to 13F Reporting, to update the reporting threshold for institutional investment managers, as well as a number of other ancillary changes. The major proposed amendment was the increasing of the reporting threshold from $100 million to $3.5 billion.
