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Trap for the unwary: you still need to renew confidential treatment requests filed under the old rules

A confidential treatment order for information redacted from an exhibit is about to expire. Under SEC rules that took effect last week (see our prior blog posts here  and here), public companies can now redact the same type of information without prior SEC review, so the company doesn’t have to do anything, right?

Wrong.  The SEC has confirmed that its new rules for the redaction of confidential information from certain exhibits do not automatically extend orders for confidential treatment granted under the traditional application process.… More