Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights March 9, 2015 Articles & Books SEC Proposes Long-Awaited Hedging Disclosure Rule: What Does It Mean and What Should You Do Now? On Feb. 9, the SEC proposed a long-awaited rule on disclosure of company equity hedging policies, as required by the Dodd-... March 9, 2015 Articles & Books Fatally Foreign: Extraterritorial Recovery of Affordable Transfers and Principles of Comity in the Madoff Securities SIPA Liquidation Proceeding Bernie Madoff’s investment firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (Madoff Securities), famously imploded in D... March 4, 2015 Client Update Former Company Officer Permitted to Claim Whistleblower Award The SEC announced a whistleblower award of nearly half a million dollars to a former company officer whose report of misco... March 4, 2015 Client Update Vanguard Focuses on Engagement in Letters to Companies The CEO of Vanguard has issued letters regarding shareholder engagement to the independent chair or lead director of appro... March 3, 2015 Client Update BlackRock Issues U.S. Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2015 Season BlackRock has revised its U.S. proxy voting guidelines, following their annual review of governance and proxy voting trend... March 2, 2015 Client Update SEC Issues Reporting Rules for Security-Based Swaps On February 11, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) and proposed amend... February 27, 2015 Client Update Evolution of Clawback Policies and Accounting Implications Several shareholder proposals this season ask boards to adopt clawback policies that would be triggered by any misconduct ... February 24, 2015 Client Update ISS Clarifies Its Unilateral Bylaw and Charter Amendments Policy as Related to Exclusive Forum and Fee Shifting Provisions and Other Bylaws Under its existing policy, ISS will recommend against the election of boards of directors who adopt bylaw or charter amend... February 23, 2015 Articles & Books The Fiduciary Duties of Directors of Troubled Companies Directors and officers of financially distressed companies often face complicated, high-pressure decisions in fulfilling t... February 23, 2015 Client Update Investors’ Views on Effective Proxy Statement Disclosures More than half of the 64 investors who responded to a survey conducted by the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governanc... Load More
March 9, 2015 Articles & Books SEC Proposes Long-Awaited Hedging Disclosure Rule: What Does It Mean and What Should You Do Now? On Feb. 9, the SEC proposed a long-awaited rule on disclosure of company equity hedging policies, as required by the Dodd-...
March 9, 2015 Articles & Books Fatally Foreign: Extraterritorial Recovery of Affordable Transfers and Principles of Comity in the Madoff Securities SIPA Liquidation Proceeding Bernie Madoff’s investment firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (Madoff Securities), famously imploded in D...
March 4, 2015 Client Update Former Company Officer Permitted to Claim Whistleblower Award The SEC announced a whistleblower award of nearly half a million dollars to a former company officer whose report of misco...
March 4, 2015 Client Update Vanguard Focuses on Engagement in Letters to Companies The CEO of Vanguard has issued letters regarding shareholder engagement to the independent chair or lead director of appro...
March 3, 2015 Client Update BlackRock Issues U.S. Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2015 Season BlackRock has revised its U.S. proxy voting guidelines, following their annual review of governance and proxy voting trend...
March 2, 2015 Client Update SEC Issues Reporting Rules for Security-Based Swaps On February 11, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) and proposed amend...
February 27, 2015 Client Update Evolution of Clawback Policies and Accounting Implications Several shareholder proposals this season ask boards to adopt clawback policies that would be triggered by any misconduct ...
February 24, 2015 Client Update ISS Clarifies Its Unilateral Bylaw and Charter Amendments Policy as Related to Exclusive Forum and Fee Shifting Provisions and Other Bylaws Under its existing policy, ISS will recommend against the election of boards of directors who adopt bylaw or charter amend...
February 23, 2015 Articles & Books The Fiduciary Duties of Directors of Troubled Companies Directors and officers of financially distressed companies often face complicated, high-pressure decisions in fulfilling t...
February 23, 2015 Client Update Investors’ Views on Effective Proxy Statement Disclosures More than half of the 64 investors who responded to a survey conducted by the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governanc...