{"id":8040,"date":"2026-01-06T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:18:42","slug":"a-workshop-for-foreign-private-issuers-and-their-advisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/a-workshop-for-foreign-private-issuers-and-their-advisors\/","title":{"rendered":"A Workshop for Foreign Private Issuers and Their Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreign private issuer (FPI) reporting is a hot topic in the world of SEC reporting.\u00a0 Congress recently enacted the Holding Foreign Issuers Accountable Act requiring directors and officers of FPIs to comply with Section 16(a) reporting requirements.\u00a0 These individuals will be required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 starting on March 18, 2026.\u00a0 In addition, as discussed in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/rules\/concept\/2025\/33-11376.pdf\">Concept Release<\/a>, the SEC is reconsidering the FPI definition. \u00a0Possible changes may result in some companies losing their FPI status and being required to transition to the domestic registrant reporting regimen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help FPIs and their advisors prepare for these and other possible changes, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pli.edu\/programs\/form-20-f-in-depth-workshop\/440754\"><strong>Form 20-F and Foreign Private Issuer In-Depth Workshop<\/strong><\/a> will be presented on January 12-13, 2026, at PLI\u2019s New York Conference Center.\u00a0 You can attend in person or online and learn \u00a0more about the workshop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pli.edu\/programs\/form-20-f-in-depth-workshop\/440754\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As always, your thoughts and comments are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign private issuer (FPI) reporting is a hot topic in the world of SEC reporting.\u00a0 Congress recently enacted the Holding Foreign Issuers Accountable Act requiring directors and officers of FPIs to comply with Section 16(a) reporting requirements.\u00a0 These individuals will be required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 starting on March 18, 2026.\u00a0 In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/a-workshop-for-foreign-private-issuers-and-their-advisors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Workshop for Foreign Private Issuers and Their Advisors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[268,269,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[154],"class_list":["post-8040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-form-20-f-reporting","category-fpi","category-seci-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}