The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:30:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png SEC Proposed Amendments to Rules for Administrative Proceedings – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 SEC Proposed Amendments to Rules for Administrative Proceedings https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2015/10/15/sec-proposes-amendments-to-rules-for-administrative-proceedings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sec-proposes-amendments-to-rules-for-administrative-proceedings https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2015/10/15/sec-proposes-amendments-to-rules-for-administrative-proceedings/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:40:07 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=71755?d=20151015094129EDT Posted by Barry R. Goldsmith, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Thursday, October 15, 2015
Editor's Note:

Barry R. Goldsmith is a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. This post is based on a Gibson Dunn client alert by Mr. Goldsmith, Joel Cohen, Marc J. Fagel, Monica K. Loseman, and Mark Schonfeld.

On September 24, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had voted to propose amendments to rules governing its administrative proceedings. SEC Chair Mary Jo White noted that the “proposed amendments seek to modernize our rules of practice for administrative proceedings, including provisions for additional time and prescribed discovery for the parties.” [1] These proposals follow the SEC’s June 2014 announcement that it intended to bring more cases through administrative proceedings rather than in federal court [2] and the release of the Division of Enforcement’s May 2015 guidance entitled “Approach to Forum Selection in Contested Actions,” explaining how the SEC chooses between administrative proceedings and federal court to litigate its claims. [3]
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