Corporate compliance and reporting

Tapping public markets brings increasingly complex regulatory, reporting and compliance demands for companies needing a broader pool of capital. Meeting the challenge, head office advisory members of our market-leading capital markets team assists a broad range of clients, including large-listed companies, newly public companies and businesses preparing to float, to manage their securities' regulatory and corporate governance obligations, respond to emerging trends and adopt best practice as a public company.  

Drawing on our 26-office network we operate across the key global markets, acting for domestic and foreign companies and for clients in virtually all industry sectors. Our work includes:  

• Responding to regulator comment letters on securities offering documents, registration statements and annual reports 

• Commenting on proposed rules of relevant securities regulators 

• Participating in working groups regarding regulatory reform initiatives 

• Advising on corporate governance compliance matters (including in the US under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) 

• Negotiating and drafting for approval requests for securities regulatory derogations and no action relief 

• Drafting confidential treatment requests and dealing with related matters.  

Given our deep resource and heritage in key finance hubs in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, including Australia, we have a particular record in providing issuers with co-ordinated cross-border support on the laws of different jurisdictions. Our securities team also regularly works with our dedicated corporate governance lawyers to guide listed and privately-held companies on domestic and international corporate laws and governance frameworks on a multijurisdictional basis, including with respect to ESG matters.