Anna T. Pinedo

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Anna Pinedo is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Corporate & Securities practice. She concentrates her practice on securities and derivatives. Anna represents issuers, investment banks/financial intermediaries and investors in financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, as well as structured notes and other hybrid and structured products.

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The SEC announced an upcoming roundtable (date and details to come) that will focus on the causes of short-termism, including the role of quarterly disclosures.  At the end of 2018, the SEC had published a request for comment regarding the timing of earnings releases and quarterly reports by public companies.  The statement regarding the roundtable…

A recent research piece published by UBS Financial Services discusses the significant variations in IPO winners and losers.  The report notes that after five years about 60% of all IPOs had negative returns.  Variation in long-term performance appears to be correlated with specific IPO characteristics.  Companies with revenues in excess of $1 billion and those…

A partnership (or LLC) can go public in a highly tax-efficient manner by using an “Up-C” structure.  An Up-C structure is composed of two entities: (1) a parent company, a C corporation (“PubCo”) which will be organized as a holding company, and (2) PubCo’s subsidiary, which is the partnership or LLC.  The Up-C structure makes…

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions, which have been highly anticipated.  As noted in prior blog posts, at the time that the SEC adopted amended definitions of smaller reporting company, market participants had expected that the SEC would address the thresholds that trigger a requirement…

On May 3, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed revisions to financial statement disclosures with respect to business acquisitions and dispositions required by Regulation S-X’s Rule 3-05 (Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired or to be Acquired (Rule 3-05)), Rule 3-14 (Special Instructions for Real Estate Operations to be Acquired (Rule 3-14)), Article…

The Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled an open meeting for May 9, 2019 at 9 am, which will be webcast.

At the open meeting, the SEC will consider whether to propose new rule amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions to promote capital formation for smaller reporting issuers by more appropriately…

As part of the Disclosure Effectiveness initiative, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to address the financial disclosure requirements in connection with acquisitions and dispositions.  The SEC proposed amendments to the requirements in Rules 3-05, 3-14, and Article 11 of Regulation S-X, as well as related rules and forms, for financial statements of businesses…

The amendments adopted on March 20, 2019 implementing the FAST Act mandates generally (other than the amendments relating to redaction of confidential information in certain exhibits that became effective on publication of the final rule release in the Federal Register on April 2, 2019) become effective today, May 2, 2019.