Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights March 31, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Agrees Company Proposal to Retain Supermajority Provisions Directly Conflicts with Simple Majority Vote Shareholder Proposal Since the SEC staff substantially narrowed the use of Rule 14a-8(i)(9) as a basis to exclude shareholder proposals in Staf... March 30, 2016 Client Update Second Circuit Says Section 546 of Bankruptcy Code Preempts State Law Constructive Fraud Claims Unanimous panel affirms dismissals of two actions brought by creditors seeking to avoid transactions through an end run ar... March 29, 2016 Client Update IPO Governance Gains Investor Attention CII issued a recent policy statement focused on newly public companies, prompted by concerns about high-profile IPOs using... March 29, 2016 Client Update Investment Management Regulatory Update - March 2016 SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Extends Comment Period on Proposed Rule and Concept Release on Transfer Agent Regulations S... March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve... March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve... March 24, 2016 Client Update Legislation Introduced to Increase Activist Hedge Fund Disclosure U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have introduced The Brokow Act designed to increase oversight o... March 23, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Issues FAQ on Naming Shareholder Proposals in Proxy Cards The SEC Division of Corporation Finance issued a rare FAQ on a proxy rule yesterday, making clear that companies must prov... March 22, 2016 Client Update Focus on Director Tenure Begins to Target Specific Lengths of Service Investors have expressed concerns about the length of director tenure for several years, pushing companies to focus on boa... March 22, 2016 Client Update Visual Memo: Single-Counterparty Credit Limits Proposed Rule The Federal Reserve has reproposed rules that would establish single-counterparty credit limits (“SCCL Reproposal”) fo... Load More
March 31, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Agrees Company Proposal to Retain Supermajority Provisions Directly Conflicts with Simple Majority Vote Shareholder Proposal Since the SEC staff substantially narrowed the use of Rule 14a-8(i)(9) as a basis to exclude shareholder proposals in Staf...
March 30, 2016 Client Update Second Circuit Says Section 546 of Bankruptcy Code Preempts State Law Constructive Fraud Claims Unanimous panel affirms dismissals of two actions brought by creditors seeking to avoid transactions through an end run ar...
March 29, 2016 Client Update IPO Governance Gains Investor Attention CII issued a recent policy statement focused on newly public companies, prompted by concerns about high-profile IPOs using...
March 29, 2016 Client Update Investment Management Regulatory Update - March 2016 SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Extends Comment Period on Proposed Rule and Concept Release on Transfer Agent Regulations S...
March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve...
March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve...
March 24, 2016 Client Update Legislation Introduced to Increase Activist Hedge Fund Disclosure U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have introduced The Brokow Act designed to increase oversight o...
March 23, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Issues FAQ on Naming Shareholder Proposals in Proxy Cards The SEC Division of Corporation Finance issued a rare FAQ on a proxy rule yesterday, making clear that companies must prov...
March 22, 2016 Client Update Focus on Director Tenure Begins to Target Specific Lengths of Service Investors have expressed concerns about the length of director tenure for several years, pushing companies to focus on boa...
March 22, 2016 Client Update Visual Memo: Single-Counterparty Credit Limits Proposed Rule The Federal Reserve has reproposed rules that would establish single-counterparty credit limits (“SCCL Reproposal”) fo...