SEC’s Atkins praises Texas corporate law, promises to scale back disclosure rules

Could Texas’s recently enacted law SB 29 shape the contours of corporate law?

In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins highlighted Texas’s recent corporate law reforms have begun to create “an interesting alternative to Delaware,” and urged states to go further by implementing laws that would throw cold water on abusive and frivolous litigation.

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