SEC Adopts Interim Final Rules To Implement FAST Act Provisions

On January 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") adopted interim final rules to implement Sections 71003 and 84001 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (the "FAST Act"). The interim final rules implement revisions to Form S-1 and Form F-1 that permit an emerging growth company to omit financial information from a registration statement for certain periods, provided that all of the required information is included in the registration statement prior to distributing a preliminary prospectus, and revisions to Form S-1 and Item 512 of Regulation S-K that permit a smaller reporting company to incorporate by reference into a Form S-1 any reports or materials filed with the SEC subsequent to the effective date of the registration statement.