The Corporate Counsel, Vol. XXV: 2000

November–December 2000 [PDF]

• Drafting/Implementing Rule 10b5-1 Sales Plans With Brokers (CC Nov-Dec 00)
• Repricing—Issuer Tender Offer? (CC Nov-Dec 00)
• Rule 701 Staff Letter—Balance Sheet Date (CC Nov-Dec 00)
• Proxy Season Items (CC Nov-Dec 00)
• A Few FD Items: (CC Nov-Dec 00)
• Staff Update (CC Nov-Dec 00)
• Registering ESPP Plan Interests on Form S-8—Staff Clarification In Works (CC Nov-Dec 00)
• Charitable Stock Option Grant Opportunity (CC Nov-Dec 00)

September–October 2000 [PDF]

• Rule 10b5-1 The Need to Gear Up Now (CC Sep-Oct 00)
• Regulation FD—Some Thoughts (CC Sep-Oct 00)
• Two Recent Developments Should Result in Speedier Staff Responses (CC Sep-Oct 00)
• California’s Rule 701—Financial Statement Requirement (CC Sep-Oct 00)
• Phase-Out of Old EDGAR Deferred (CC Sep-Oct 00)
• APPENDIX (CC Sep-Oct 00)

July-August 2000 [PDF]

• Regulation FD and Rules 10b5-1 and 2 (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• Staff §423 Plan Letter Addresses 1933 Act Registration Enrollment Problem (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• Pre-IPO Option Grants That Exceed the 500 Person Threshold for 1934 Act Registration —A Problem (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• IRS Says Adding Forfeiture and Transfer Restrictions to Pre-IPO Vested Shares Not a Taxable Event (and No §83(b) Election) (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• Further Clarification of Staff’s Rule 144 Holding Period Tacking Position on Limited Partnership and LLC Reorganizations (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• California’s Rule 701 Exemption—Restricted Stock (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• Sales of Unregistered Securities—Preventive Procedure (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• Reader Question: Can an Issuer Grant Net Shares to Optionees to Avoid Cashless Exercise/Same-Day Sales Into the Market? (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• Rule 144(k) and Sales by Former Affiliates (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• Shells—The NASD’s Notice to Members (CC Jul-Aug 00)
• New Telephone Interpretations Manual Supplement (CC Jul-Aug 00)

May–June 2000 [PDF]

• Charitable Stock Options—One Solution to the Resale Problem (CC May-Jun 00)
• Conversion of Securities of Wholly-Owned Subsidiary—Rule 144 Holding Period (CC May-Jun 00)
• Confusion Over Accounting for Consultant Grants (CC May-Jun 00)
• Transferable Options—Staff Clarifies S-8 Availability to Family Trusts (CC May-Jun 00)
• Staff Reiterates Rule 144 Applies to Charitable Remainder Trust (CC May-Jun 00)
• Staff Says Don’t Worry About 1934 Act Registration For Pre-IPO Rule 701 Options that Exceed the 500 Person Threshold (CC May-Jun 00)
• Friends and Family Shares to VCs—Reader Suggestion (CC May-Jun 00)
• Option Exercises And Year-End Values Table—Omission? (CC May-Jun 00)
• The NYSE Shareholder Approval Project—Request For Three-Year Extension (CC May-Jun 00)
• Practice Tips (CC May-Jun 00)
• General Counsel Not An Affiliate? (CC May-Jun 00)

March–April 2000 [PDF]

• Charitable Stock Options—Resales (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Staff Issues Favorable No Registration/No Resale Restriction Position Covering Huge (“Relatively Small”) Restricted Stock Grants (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Staff Issues First Letter Permitting Tacking of Rule 144 Holding Period For LLC Reorganization—But There Are Conditions (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Rule 144—Shares Delivered as Additional Collateral (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Pledging Locked-Up Stock (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Start-Up Stock Option Agreements—Lock-Ups (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Rule 701 Update (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• The Reg FD Proposal and Conference Calls (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Early Audit Committee Reports (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Postponed IPOs—Metaphysics Raises Its Ugly Head (CC Mar-Apr 00)
• Shells (CC Mar-Apr 00)

January–February 2000 [PDF]

• Charitable Stock Option Follow Up (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Staff Deals Death Blow to Blank Check Shells (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• The NYSE’s Proposed New Shareholder Plan Approval Rule (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Section 3(a)(10) Staff Practices (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Staff Applies Rule 144 to Forward Contracts (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Disclosure Practices (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Heads Up—10-Ks Due This Year on March 30 (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Y2K Disclosures Now (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Filing Merger Proxy Statements on EDGAR After January 24 (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Friends and Family Shares Update (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• IPO Lock-ups—Follow-On Offerings (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• S-8 Items (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Reader Question: Bonus Stock—S-8 Registration After-The-Fact (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Rule 701 Q&A (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Top Hat PIPs—Rule 16b-3 (CC Jan-Feb 00)
• Carl Schneider’s Millennium Reminiscences (CC Jan-Feb 00)