Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights March 26, 2014 Client Update D.C. District Court Orders Production of Internal Compliance Investigation Materials On March 6, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to compel the production of doc... March 25, 2014 Articles & Books COMMENTARY: Why the Market Should Care About Proposed Clearing Agency Requirements On March 12, the SEC issued a 400-page rule proposal that, if adopted as proposed, would impose a multitude of new complia... March 25, 2014 Client Update Socially Responsible Investors Publicly Question Companies’ Decisions to Litigate Shareholder Proposals The SEC staff’s Rule 14a-8 process is being supported by perhaps an unlikely group. Twenty socially responsible investor... March 25, 2014 Client Update SEC Warns Against Agreements Restricting Whistleblowers and Continues to Discuss Reforms Focused Proxy Advisers and Disclosure Requirements Sean McKessy, the Chief of the SEC’s whistleblower office, recently warned companies not to be “creative” in trying ... March 24, 2014 Client Update Investment Management Regulatory Update - March 2014 SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Staff Responds to Questions About Form PF IM Guidance Update Clarifies Advisory Fee ... March 24, 2014 Client Update Dodd-Frank Enhanced Prudential Standards for Foreign Banks with Limited U.S. Footprints: Visual Memorandum The Federal Reserve’s Dodd-Frank enhanced prudential standards (EPS) final rule adopts a tiered approach for applying EP... March 24, 2014 Client Update SEC Announces Agenda and Panelists for Roundtable on Cybersecurity The SEC has announced its agenda and panelists for the roundtable on cybersecurity to be held on Wednesday, March 26 at 9:... March 19, 2014 Client Update Will Shareholders Ask About the New COSO Framework at Annual Meetings? The list of possible topics that shareholders may raise at an annual meeting compiled by BDO USA includes many that compan... March 18, 2014 Client Update To Seek Withdrawal of the Proxy Access Proposal, Disney Amends Governance Guidelines on Independent Chair As reported, a proxy access proposal was withdrawn at Disney’s annual meeting today after the company made changes to it... March 12, 2014 Client Update Delaware Court of Chancery Finds Financial Advisor Liable for Aiding and Abetting Fiduciary Duty Breaches On March 7, 2014, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery found a financial advisor liable for aid... Load More
March 26, 2014 Client Update D.C. District Court Orders Production of Internal Compliance Investigation Materials On March 6, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to compel the production of doc...
March 25, 2014 Articles & Books COMMENTARY: Why the Market Should Care About Proposed Clearing Agency Requirements On March 12, the SEC issued a 400-page rule proposal that, if adopted as proposed, would impose a multitude of new complia...
March 25, 2014 Client Update Socially Responsible Investors Publicly Question Companies’ Decisions to Litigate Shareholder Proposals The SEC staff’s Rule 14a-8 process is being supported by perhaps an unlikely group. Twenty socially responsible investor...
March 25, 2014 Client Update SEC Warns Against Agreements Restricting Whistleblowers and Continues to Discuss Reforms Focused Proxy Advisers and Disclosure Requirements Sean McKessy, the Chief of the SEC’s whistleblower office, recently warned companies not to be “creative” in trying ...
March 24, 2014 Client Update Investment Management Regulatory Update - March 2014 SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Staff Responds to Questions About Form PF IM Guidance Update Clarifies Advisory Fee ...
March 24, 2014 Client Update Dodd-Frank Enhanced Prudential Standards for Foreign Banks with Limited U.S. Footprints: Visual Memorandum The Federal Reserve’s Dodd-Frank enhanced prudential standards (EPS) final rule adopts a tiered approach for applying EP...
March 24, 2014 Client Update SEC Announces Agenda and Panelists for Roundtable on Cybersecurity The SEC has announced its agenda and panelists for the roundtable on cybersecurity to be held on Wednesday, March 26 at 9:...
March 19, 2014 Client Update Will Shareholders Ask About the New COSO Framework at Annual Meetings? The list of possible topics that shareholders may raise at an annual meeting compiled by BDO USA includes many that compan...
March 18, 2014 Client Update To Seek Withdrawal of the Proxy Access Proposal, Disney Amends Governance Guidelines on Independent Chair As reported, a proxy access proposal was withdrawn at Disney’s annual meeting today after the company made changes to it...
March 12, 2014 Client Update Delaware Court of Chancery Finds Financial Advisor Liable for Aiding and Abetting Fiduciary Duty Breaches On March 7, 2014, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery found a financial advisor liable for aid...