Preliminary Proxy Info Statements – Mergers & Acquisitions
SEA’34
14C
PREM14C
725
Proxy
Preliminary Non-Management Proxy Statements
SEA’34
14A
PREN14A
384
Proxy
Preliminary Revised Non-Management Proxy Soliciting Materials – Contested Solicitations and Other Situations
SEA’34
14A
PRRN14A
2,253
Proxy
Preliminary Revised Proxy Soliciting Materials
SEA’34
14A
PRER14A
11,984
Proxy
Preliminary Revised Proxy Info Statements
SEA’34
14C
PRER14C
2,557
Proxy
Notices of Exempt Non-Management Proxy Solicitations
SEA’34
14a-6(g)
PX14A6G
3,073
Proxy
Notices of Exempt Non-Management Proxy Solicitations – Preliminary Roll-Up Communications
SEA’34
14a-6(n)
PX14A6N
59
Update
Quarterly Reports by International Development Banks
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–
QRTLYRPT
220
a
SEC
SEC Notices of Qualification
SA’33
A/A+
QUALIF×
2,619
Registration
Initial Undertakings to File Reports by Non-Resident Brokers, Dealers and Investment Advisors
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–
REG-NR
71
a
SEC
SEC Orders Revoking Registrations
SEA’34
SEA §12(j)
REVOKED
6,387
SEC
SEC Orders Revoking Registrations of Municipal Advisors
SEA’34
SEA §15B(c)(2)
REVOKED-MA
1
Registration
Registration Withdrawal Requests
SA’33
—
RW
13,207
Registration
Withdrawals of Registration Withdrawal Requests
SA’33
—
RW WD
454
Registration
Registration Statements (General Form)
SA’33
S-1
S-1°
84,296
a
Registration
Registration Statements to Add Securities to Prior Form S-1 Registrations
SA’33
462(b)
S-1MEF
2,216
Registration
Registration Statements – Securities for Transactions
SA’33
S-3
S-3°
68,844
a
Registration
Automatic Shelf Registration Statements by Well-Known Issuers
SA’33
S-3
S-3ASR°
9,705
Registration
Registration Statements – Securities for Dividend and Interest Reinvestment Plans (Immediately Effective)
SA’33
S-3
S-3D
980
a
Registration
/A
Post-Effective Amendments of ‘S-3D’ Registrations
SA’33
S-3
S-3DPOS
743
Registration
Registration Statements to Add Securities to Prior Form S-3 Registrations
SA’33
462(b)
S-3MEF
1,356
Registration
Registration Statements – Securities for Mergers
SA’33
S-4
S-4°
37,411
a
Registration
Registration Statements – Securities for the Formation of Bank and Savings & Loan Holding Companies
SA’33
S-4
S-4EF
108
a
Registration
Registration Statements to Add Securities to Prior Form S-4 Registrations
SA’33
462(b)
S-4MEF
184
Registration
/A
Post-Effective Amendments of ‘S-4EF’ Registrations
SA’33
S-4
S-4 POS
315
Registration
Registration Statements by Unit Investment Trusts
SA’33
S-6
S-6
33,734
a
Registration
Registration Statements – Securities for Certain Employee Benefit Plans
SA’33
S-8
S-8
93,848
a
Registration
/A
Post-Effective Amendments of Form S-8 Registrations
SA’33
–
S-8 POS
41,072
Registration
Registration Statements by Certain Real Estate Companies
SA’33
S-11
S-11°
4,758
a
Registration
Registration Statements to Add Securities to Prior Form S-11 Registrations
SA’33
462(b)
S-11MEF
91
Registration
Registration Statements – Standardized Options
SA’33
S-20
S-20
11
a
Registration
Registration Statements by Foreign Governments and Political Subdivisions
SA’33
B
S-B
621
a
Registration
Registration Statements to Add Securities to Prior Schedule B Registrations
SA’33
462(b)
S-BMEF
15
Registration
Applications for Registration by Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants
SEA’34
SBSE
SBSE×
33
a
Registration
Applications for Registration by Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants that are Registered or Registering with the CFTC as such
SEA’34
SBSE-A
SBSE-A×
368
a
Registration
Applications for Registration by Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants that are Registered Broker-Dealers
SEA’34
SBSE-BD
SBSE-BD×
11
a
Registration
Certifications for Registration by Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants
SEA’34
SBSE-C
SBSE-C×
53
Registration
Applications for Registration by Security-Based Swap Execution Facilities
SEA’34
SBSEF
SBSEF×
10
a
Ownership
Statements of Acquisitions of Beneficial Ownership by “Active” Investors
WA’68
13D
SC 13D
200,392
a
Ownership
Statements of Acquisitions of Beneficial Ownership by “Active” Investors
WA’68
13D
SCH 13D×
38
a
Ownership
Statements of Acquisitions of Beneficial Ownership by “Passive” Investors
WA’68
13G
SC 13G
657,805
a
Ownership
Statements of Acquisitions of Beneficial Ownership by “Passive” Investors
WA’68
13G
SCH 13G×
201
a
Ownership
Tender-Offer Statements by Issuers
WA’68
13E-1
SC 13E1
36
a
Ownership
Tender-Offer Statements by Certain Issuers – Going-Private Transactions
Tender-Offer Communications by Issuers re: Third-Party Offers
WA’68
14D-9C
SC14D9C
2,663
Ownership
Tender-Offer Solicitation/Recommendation Statements by Canadian Issuers
WA’68
14D-9F
SC14D9F
80
a
Ownership
Statements re: Changes in the Majority of Directors
WA’68
14F-1
SC 14F1
2,580
a
Proxy
Info from Certain Nominating Shareholders
SEA’34
14N
SC 14N
24
a
Ownership
Tender-Offer Communications by Issuers and Third Parties
WA’68
TO
SC TO-C
5,924
Ownership
Tender-Offer Statements by Issuers
WA’68
TO
SC TO-I
28,177
a
Ownership
Tender-Offer Statements by Third Parties
WA’68
TO
SC TO-T
15,698
a
Update
Specialized Disclosure Reports re: Conflict Minerals and Resource Extraction Payments
DFA’10
SD
SD
12,342
a
Registration
Applications for Registration by Security-Based Swap Data Repositories
SEA’34
SDR
SDR×
6
a
Update
Separate Exhibits – Scanned Paper-Format Exhibits of Other Electronic Filings
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SE
SE
3,594
SEC
SEC Staff Actions
–
–
SEC ACTION
872
SEC
SEC Staff Letters
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–
SEC LETTER
1,682
ABS
Registration Statements (General Form) by Issuers of Asset-Backed Securities
SA’33
SF-1
SF-1
85
a
ABS
Registration Statements to Add Securities to Prior Form SF-1 Registrations
SA’33
462(b)
SF-1MEF
2
ABS
Shelf Registration Statements for Qualified Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities
SA’33
SF-3
SF-3
470
a
Registration
Sales Literature
–
–
SL
9
Update
Special Financial Reports
SEA’34
15d-2
SP 15D2
66
a
Update
Specialized Disclosures re: the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act
–
SPDSCL
SPDSCL
14
SEC
SEC Stop Orders
–
–
STOP ORDER
62
Registration
Supplemental Materials by Foreign Issuers
SA’33
SA §11(a)
SUPPL
56,205
Registration
Applications for Qualifications of Trust Indentures
TIA’39
T-3
T-3
1,298
a
Registration
Applications for Determinations of Eligibility to Act as a Trustee by Foreign Entities
–
T-6
T-6
2
Registration
Applications for Registrations by Transfer Agents
SEA’34
TA-1
TA-1°
5,409
a
Update
Annual Reports of Activity by Transfer Agents
SEA’34
TA-2
TA-2°
10,459
a
SEC
Cancellations of Transfer Agent Registrations by SEC Orders
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–
TACO
182
Registration
Notices of Withdrawals from Registration by Transfer Agents
SEA’34
TA-W
TA-W°
558
Update
Notices of Reliance on a Temporary Hardship Exemption
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TH
TH
135
Registration
Test-the-Waters Materials
–
A/A+
TTW
36
a
Comment
Comment and Other Letters from the SEC
–
–
UPLOAD
189,342
Registration
Withdrawal Requests for Materials Previously Filed
–
A/A+
WDL-REQ
62
Update
Annual Financial Reports [ a.k.a. FOCUS Reports ] by Brokers and Dealers
SEA’34
X-17A-5
X-17A-5°
106,439
a
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Info about Filing Agents
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In SEC terminology, a “filing agent” (in non-bold all-lowercase herein) is the entity submitting a Filing, i.e., the party who is logged into the SEC’s EDGAR® system when it is submitted, and is identified by the CIK³ they used to login to EDGAR®. They are either (1) an SEC-registered Filing Agent(in Bold Initial-Caps herein), or (2) a Registrant who is filing for themself as the Filer/Issuer (a “Self-Filer”) or is submitting a Filing for an affiliate (an “Affiliate-Filer”), or (3) the SEC itself. A registered Filing Agent is in the business of submitting Filings for other Registrants, so we call them a “true” Filing Agent(Bold Initial-Caps) to distinguish them conceptually from the filing agent (non-bold all-lowercase) who submitted the Filing. Out of ≈860K Filers/Issuers, there have been 300K+ filing agents and 4K+ “true” Filing Agents, meaning that ≈65% of Registrants have used only Filing Agents for their Filings and ≈35% have filed at least one Filing for themself as a Self-Filer or as an Affiliate-Filer without using a Filing Agent. Determining which filing agents are “true” Filing Agents is difficult.² You cannot tell whether a Filing’s filing agent CIK is that of a Filing Agent or a Registrant Filer/Issuer, because Registrants may be (or own) Filing Agents (e.g., Donnelley Financial Solutions owns about 40 of them) or submit Filings for their directors/officers, and Filing Agents may be Registrants for other business purposes (e.g., some Transfer Agents). Further complicating this, some “parents” submit Filings as Affiliate-Filers for their subsidiaries, Funds/ETFs or ABSs, and various Money Managers submit Filings for other related Money Managers. Another complication is that some Filing Agents offer Self-Filer filing services on websites, whereby the Filer/Issuer can choose on some websites to have the site’s Filing Software§ login to EDGAR® with either their own CIK or the Filing Agent’s. A Filing is self-filed when the Filer/Issuer is logged into EDGAR® with their own CIK and is filing their own Filing, whether or not they are using an SEC website or Filing Software§ from a Filing Agent or another ‘Vendor’. Similarly (but less frequently, due to password-security issues), if a Filer/Issuer allows a Filing Agent to login to EDGAR® with the Filer/Issuer’s CIK, that would be a self-filing situation, because there would be no SEC record of the Filing Agent’s involvement. If a Filer/Issuer is logged into a Filing Agent’s site when submitting a Filing but doesn’t use their own CIK for the submission, then the Filing Agent is the filing agent. In this case, regardless of whether or not a Filing Agent’s site allows Registrant clients to “sign off” on Filings or submit them from there, the Filing Agent is still the filing agent and the Filing is not self-filed. Our algorithms reconcile all of this daily and figure out who the “true” Filing Agents are.
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The SEC doesn’t publish the names of, nor any data about, registered Filing Agents. (Try finding Filing Agent #1 by entering 0001193125 (its CIK) on the SEC’s Search Filings → Company Search page. You won’t find them!) We determine which of the 300K+ historic filing agents¹ are “true” Filing Agents, and of those 4K+, which of them are “pure” (≈90%) or not (≈10%), by comparing the CIK³ of each Filing’s filing agent with that of the Filer/Issuer for whom the Filing was filed. We consider a Registrant to be a “true” Filing Agent when they have either (1) done Filings only for others, or (2) done more than a specific number (which is based upon our extensive research and is proprietary to us) of Filings for others for each Filing they did for themself as the Filer/Issuer. The “Filings Ratio” after each name above indicates either (1) that the filing agent is a “pure” Filing Agent (shown as “All : 0” when all of their submissions have been for other Registrants and none have been for themself), or (2) the ratio of Filings for others versus for themself as a Registrant (e.g., “100+ : 1” or “#: 1”). Once we identify a Filing Agent by its CIK, we figure out who they are.
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To submit Filings, an entity must first register with the SEC to receive a 10-digit Central Index Key (CIK). When a Filing is submitted, the CIK of the filing agent¹ is used, and it may differ from that of the Filer/Issuer legally required to make the Filing. The submitting filing agent may be a “true” Filing Agent or a Registrant who is self-filing or filing for a related Registrant. The filing agent’s CIK shows up as the first part of each Filing’s identifying SEC Accession Number, which is in ‘CIK-Year-Submission#’ format (e.g., SEC # 0001193125-24-039235).
Info about Filing Software
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Most Filing Agents use specialized SEC Filing Software to create and edit the Documents in the Filings that they submit. Shown above is the name of the most frequently used App that each Filing Agent used, based upon the number of their Filings in which identifiable software was used. We search through all Filings and look for patterns which enable us to accurately identify the software that was used to edit each Document. The software may be a commercially available Filing Software product or customized software that a Filing Agent wrote for their own purposes (for internal use and/or for sale). Since Filing Agents are diverse in the degree to which they specialize/generalize in the various Filing/Form Types that they can submit, some Filing Agents use software written and sold/licensed by their direct competitors. The reasons for this are that each software product has varying capabilities, strengths/weaknesses and costs/benefits depending upon the underlying complexities of the Types that are being submitted. For many of the Filing Agents above, you can click on the button to the left of the most frequently used App’s name to see details of the software ‘Vendors’ and Apps that they or others used for the Filings they submitted. Registrants who self-file instead of using a Filing Agent use most of these same software Apps for their Filings. In identifying the software used by a Filing Agent, we have determined that approximately 0.5% of Filings contain Documents edited by software other than that which the agent uses. This happens when Documents edited by one Filing Agent get re-used by a Filer/Issuer in Filings submitted for them by a different agent. (Some of the Types can be filed on the SEC’s EDGAR Filing Websites without special software, and some software doesn’t identify itself.) SEC Info℠ is the only service that offers detailed info and data on the SEC Filing Software market!
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