Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Issues New Anti-Inversion Guidance On April 4, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued (i) fin... April 6, 2016 Client Update NASDAQ Proposes Requiring Companies to Disclose Outside Compensatory Payments to Directors The SEC has published a proposed Nasdaq listing standard for public comment. Comments are due 21 days after publication in... April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p... April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p... 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... Load More
April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Issues New Anti-Inversion Guidance On April 4, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued (i) fin...
April 6, 2016 Client Update NASDAQ Proposes Requiring Companies to Disclose Outside Compensatory Payments to Directors The SEC has published a proposed Nasdaq listing standard for public comment. Comments are due 21 days after publication in...
April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p...
April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p...
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...