Biography
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
- Weil Advises Signet Jewelers in $1.4B Acquisition of Zale Deal Brief — February 19, 2014
Latest Thinking
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SEC Adopts Less Prescriptive Climate-Related Disclosure Rules but Challenges Remain
Blog Post — Weil Governance & Securities Watch
— By
Rebecca Grapsas,
P.J. Himelfarb,
Alicia Alterbaum,
Julie Rong,
Annemargaret Connolly and
Robert Stern
— March 13, 2024
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final climate-related disclosure rules in a 3 to 2 vote split along party lines. As discussed in Appendix A, the rules already face multiple legal challenges from states, businesses, and environmental groups, as well as dissent from two SEC Commissioners who question its necessity, authority, and cost. The SEC Chair and the two other Commissioners who voted in favor, as well as the SEC Staff presenting the rules for adoption, noted repeatedly that the final rule takes into account the thousands of comments, available here, that indicated the initial proposal was too onerous. The final rule, they noted, contains numerous revisions to make the rules less prescriptive, including eliminating the requirement to disclose Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and eliminating the financial impact metrics, which would have required disclosure of climate related impacts on each line item of a company’s consolidated financial statements. The SEC’s 886-page adopting release, and fact sheet on the final rules, are available here and here. In this Alert, we distill the adopting release into its key aspects, with more detailed discussion included in Appendices, and, importantly, we include our advice on what to do now. ...
- 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
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Need to Know: Disclosure Developments and 2023 Form 10-K Disclosure Locator
Blog Post — Weil Governance & Securities Watch
— By
P.J. Himelfarb,
Alicia Alterbaum and
Steven Bentsianov
— January 17, 2024
This Alert is in the form of a Disclosure Locator for the 2023 calendar year-end Form 10-K to be filed in 2024 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Locator highlights disclosure considerations drawn from: View the entire Governance & Securities Alert.
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