Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch

On March 24, 2020, the SEC staff recommended to the Commission that, given the public health and safety concerns resulting from the coronavirus (COVIID-19), the requirements of Rule 302(b) of Regulation S-T be relaxed for those public companies affected. Rule 302(b) provides that each signatory of documents filed electronically with the SEC manually sign a signature page, or other document, authenticating, acknowledging, or otherwise adopting the signature that appears in typed form within the electronic filing.