Biography
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Alicia Alterbaum is counsel in Weil’s Public Company Advisory Group and is based in New York. Alicia participates in the representation of U.S. public companies and foreign private issuers on securities law issues, disclosure and compliance matters, including M&A and capital markets transactions.
Alicia was previously a member of the Capital Markets practice.
Alicia has been named a “Rising Star” in Securities & Corporate Finance by New York Super Lawyers.
Prior to re-joining Weil, Alicia served as in-house corporate counsel for an S&P 500 company, advising on a wide range of governance, securities, transactional, commercial and tax matters.
Alicia received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and her B.A. from SUNY Binghamton.
Awards and Recognition, Firm News & Announcements, Latest Thinking
Awards and Recognition
- Alicia Alterbaum named a “Rising Star” in Securities & Corporate Finance Award Brief — New York Super Lawyers
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises First Watch and Advent International on $165.53M Block Trade Deal Brief — March 12, 2024
Latest Thinking
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SEC Division Director Provides Guidance on Form 8-K Cyber Incident Disclosure
Blog Post — Weil Governance & Securities Watch
— By
Adé Heyliger,
Kaitlin Descovich,
Alicia Alterbaum and
Amanda Zoda
— May 23, 2024
On May 21, 2024, the Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance released a statement relating to cybersecurity incident disclosures on Form 8-K. While it does not reflect a rule, regulation or official statement of the SEC, the Director’s statement provides guidance on using Form 8-K to disclose a material cybersecurity incident.[1] Since December […]
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... - Quarterly Review of Corporate Governance and Public Company Disclosure Developments Publication — By Howard B. Dicker, Adé Heyliger, Alicia Alterbaum and Rachel Alpert — PDF — April 15, 2024
- SEC Adopts Less Prescriptive Climate-Related Disclosure Rules but Challenges Remain Alert — By Rebecca Grapsas, P.J. Himelfarb, Alicia Alterbaum, Julie Rong, Amanda Zoda, Annemargaret Connolly, Matthew D. Morton, David R. Singh and Robert Stern — PDF — March 13, 2024
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SEC Issuer Repurchase Disclosures: Be sure to look at the correct rules
Blog Post — Weil Governance & Securities Watch
— By
Alicia Alterbaum and
Shira Barron
— February 27, 2024
As we discussed in our prior alerts (here, here, and here), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in December 2023, vacated the share repurchase modernization disclosure rules previously approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2023. This is the rulemaking that would have required new detailed disclosures in Forms 10-K and 10-Q of daily issuer share repurchases, among other things (and similar disclosures for foreign private issuers). Unfortunately, many reference sources that companies use for SEC rules and forms updated them for the modernization disclosure rules but did not further update them to revert back to the preexisting disclosure requirements. ...
- Heads Up for the 2024 Proxy Season: Key Corporate Governance, Disclosure and Engagement Topics Alert — Governance & Securities — By Lyuba Goltser, Kaitlin Descovich, Howard B. Dicker, Rebecca Grapsas, Adé Heyliger, P.J. Himelfarb, Alicia Alterbaum, Steven Bentsianov, Rachel Alpert, Daniel Ruzi, Julie Rong, Eleni Samara and Amanda Zoda — PDF — January 30, 2024