Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights May 7, 2014 Client Update Study Finds Most Clawback Policies Follow Similar Patterns and Warns of Possible Accounting Consequences as Policies Innovate and Evolve The most common trigger for clawback of compensation is the occurrence of a restatement of financial results, according to... May 6, 2014 Client Update The Second Circuit Issues Decision of First Impression With Respect to Morrison and Extraterritoriality Earlier today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued the following decision in the City of Pon... May 6, 2014 Client Update Update on Current Status of Conflict Mineral Rules and Compliance Advice The SEC’s official position last Friday, which we discussed here, reinforced the Staff’s earlier guidance, and boiled ... May 5, 2014 Client Update Delaware Court Declines to Enjoin Sotheby’s Annual Meeting On May 2, 2014, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a preliminary injunction motion by activist stockholder Third Point ... May 2, 2014 Client Update Broadridge Explains Its Current Policies on Interim Vote Tallies with Issuers as Decision-Makers, while CII Pursues Regulatory Solutions There remains some confusion about who exactly is getting information about vote tallies before an annual meeting, since t... May 2, 2014 Client Update Conflict Minerals Update: SEC Formally Stands by Staff Guidance Today the SEC issued a stay of the conflict minerals rule – but the stay extends only to “the effective date for compl... May 1, 2014 Client Update Trends in Shareholder Proposals for the 2014 Season, So Far We recently discussed early 2014 proxy season governance trends. With respect to shareholder proposals, the total number f... April 29, 2014 Client Update DOJ and SEC Announce Filing of FCPA Enforcement Action Against Broker-Dealer Executives Continuing a flurry of recent enforcement activity under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), the U.S. Dep... April 29, 2014 Client Update Major Governance Changes at Nabors, But Vote-Counting Method Continues to Draw Criticism Amidst Questions About the Meaning of Abstentions In one fell swoop, Nabors Industries recently announced a number of significant governance changes that adopt the resoluti... April 29, 2014 Client Update SEC (Mostly) Forges Ahead on Conflict Minerals The SEC staff has responded to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ April 14 decision, which found a key feature of the co... Load More
May 7, 2014 Client Update Study Finds Most Clawback Policies Follow Similar Patterns and Warns of Possible Accounting Consequences as Policies Innovate and Evolve The most common trigger for clawback of compensation is the occurrence of a restatement of financial results, according to...
May 6, 2014 Client Update The Second Circuit Issues Decision of First Impression With Respect to Morrison and Extraterritoriality Earlier today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued the following decision in the City of Pon...
May 6, 2014 Client Update Update on Current Status of Conflict Mineral Rules and Compliance Advice The SEC’s official position last Friday, which we discussed here, reinforced the Staff’s earlier guidance, and boiled ...
May 5, 2014 Client Update Delaware Court Declines to Enjoin Sotheby’s Annual Meeting On May 2, 2014, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a preliminary injunction motion by activist stockholder Third Point ...
May 2, 2014 Client Update Broadridge Explains Its Current Policies on Interim Vote Tallies with Issuers as Decision-Makers, while CII Pursues Regulatory Solutions There remains some confusion about who exactly is getting information about vote tallies before an annual meeting, since t...
May 2, 2014 Client Update Conflict Minerals Update: SEC Formally Stands by Staff Guidance Today the SEC issued a stay of the conflict minerals rule – but the stay extends only to “the effective date for compl...
May 1, 2014 Client Update Trends in Shareholder Proposals for the 2014 Season, So Far We recently discussed early 2014 proxy season governance trends. With respect to shareholder proposals, the total number f...
April 29, 2014 Client Update DOJ and SEC Announce Filing of FCPA Enforcement Action Against Broker-Dealer Executives Continuing a flurry of recent enforcement activity under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), the U.S. Dep...
April 29, 2014 Client Update Major Governance Changes at Nabors, But Vote-Counting Method Continues to Draw Criticism Amidst Questions About the Meaning of Abstentions In one fell swoop, Nabors Industries recently announced a number of significant governance changes that adopt the resoluti...
April 29, 2014 Client Update SEC (Mostly) Forges Ahead on Conflict Minerals The SEC staff has responded to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ April 14 decision, which found a key feature of the co...