Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights September 4, 2014 Client Update European Regulatory Snapshot: Remuneration in the Financial Services Industry 2014 The move toward stricter regulation of remuneration in the financial services industry in the European Union has continued... August 27, 2014 Client Update Amnesty International Seeks Rehearing of Conflicts Minerals Case Based on Recent First Amendment Ruling Amnesty International filed a supplemental brief to its late May petition for rehearing of the conflict minerals case, bas... August 25, 2014 Client Update Facebook Defends Its Director Compensation in Delaware Litigation Facebook is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the compensation paid to its non-executive directors, which we previo... August 21, 2014 Client Update Proxy Monitor Examines the Impact on Shareholder Proposals from Three Frequent Sponsors – Individuals, Socially Responsible Investors and Labor-Affiliated Funds The NYTimes Dealbook recently focused on a Proxy Monitor study that found that 70% of shareholder proposals submitted by i... August 14, 2014 Client Update ISS Offers Issuers New Data Verification Portal for Equity Compensation Plans ISS has launched a new Equity Plan Data Verification portal to better reflect the most up-to-date data for investors votin... August 13, 2014 Client Update CII Makes Recommendations to SEC on Writing Dodd-Frank Pay for Performance Rulemaking, Questions How to Define Compensation “Actually Paid” The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) sent a letter to Keith Higgins, the director of the SEC Division of Corporati... August 12, 2014 Client Update SEC Waives Key Provision of Rule in Granting Latest Whistleblower Award and Rulemaking Petition Seeks Clarifications on Private Agreements and Anti-Retaliation The latest SEC award to a whistleblower was notable for having been initially denied because the SEC decided that the info... August 6, 2014 Client Update CREW Objects to Chamber’s Rulemaking Petition on Resubmission Thresholds for Shareholder Proposals The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) has filed a comment in response to the Chamber of Commerce’s petition ... August 4, 2014 Client Update Davis Polk Reviews the First Wave of Conflict Minerals Filings and a Similar First Amendment Case Gets Decided In a decision that may predict the outcome of the ongoing SEC conflict minerals court case, a divided U.S. Court of Appeal... August 1, 2014 Articles & Books Corporate Governance Practices in IPOs Despite pressure on US public companies to adopt certain governance practices, a review of the largest initial public offe... Load More
September 4, 2014 Client Update European Regulatory Snapshot: Remuneration in the Financial Services Industry 2014 The move toward stricter regulation of remuneration in the financial services industry in the European Union has continued...
August 27, 2014 Client Update Amnesty International Seeks Rehearing of Conflicts Minerals Case Based on Recent First Amendment Ruling Amnesty International filed a supplemental brief to its late May petition for rehearing of the conflict minerals case, bas...
August 25, 2014 Client Update Facebook Defends Its Director Compensation in Delaware Litigation Facebook is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the compensation paid to its non-executive directors, which we previo...
August 21, 2014 Client Update Proxy Monitor Examines the Impact on Shareholder Proposals from Three Frequent Sponsors – Individuals, Socially Responsible Investors and Labor-Affiliated Funds The NYTimes Dealbook recently focused on a Proxy Monitor study that found that 70% of shareholder proposals submitted by i...
August 14, 2014 Client Update ISS Offers Issuers New Data Verification Portal for Equity Compensation Plans ISS has launched a new Equity Plan Data Verification portal to better reflect the most up-to-date data for investors votin...
August 13, 2014 Client Update CII Makes Recommendations to SEC on Writing Dodd-Frank Pay for Performance Rulemaking, Questions How to Define Compensation “Actually Paid” The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) sent a letter to Keith Higgins, the director of the SEC Division of Corporati...
August 12, 2014 Client Update SEC Waives Key Provision of Rule in Granting Latest Whistleblower Award and Rulemaking Petition Seeks Clarifications on Private Agreements and Anti-Retaliation The latest SEC award to a whistleblower was notable for having been initially denied because the SEC decided that the info...
August 6, 2014 Client Update CREW Objects to Chamber’s Rulemaking Petition on Resubmission Thresholds for Shareholder Proposals The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) has filed a comment in response to the Chamber of Commerce’s petition ...
August 4, 2014 Client Update Davis Polk Reviews the First Wave of Conflict Minerals Filings and a Similar First Amendment Case Gets Decided In a decision that may predict the outcome of the ongoing SEC conflict minerals court case, a divided U.S. Court of Appeal...
August 1, 2014 Articles & Books Corporate Governance Practices in IPOs Despite pressure on US public companies to adopt certain governance practices, a review of the largest initial public offe...