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While the SEC favors a more flexible principles-based approach to disclosure of business descriptions and risk factors as determined by a company’s management, a lack of bright-line, quantitative rules to specify when disclosure is required may lead to second guessing by regulators, among others.
Public companies need to be proactive and forward-thinking on their disclosure obligations when confronted with internal investigative findings that a director, executive officer or key employee engaged in sexual misconduct.