Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights April 28, 2015 Client Update SEC Rule on Stock Buybacks Questioned Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has sent a letter to SEC Chair White to express her concerns about the increase in stock buyb... April 27, 2015 Client Update Investment Management Regulatory Update - April 2015 SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Adopts Final Regulation A+ Rules SEC Grants No-Action Relief From Section 206(4) to 16th Am... April 27, 2015 Client Update Proxy Access Shareholder Proposals Show Mixed Voting Results So Far At ten companies where shareholders have cast votes on proxy access shareholder proposals this season, four companies rece... April 23, 2015 Client Update SEC to Consider Pay for Performance Rulemaking Next Wednesday The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at 10:00 am to consider whether to propose amendments ... April 22, 2015 Client Update Solicitation Filings in Support of Proxy Access by CalPERS and New York City Pension Funds Companies with proxy access shareholder proposals on their annual meeting ballots are confronting a notice of exempt solic... April 21, 2015 Client Update Davis Polk Comment Letter to the SEC on the Hedging Disclosure Rule Proposal Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC proposal for companies to disclose their equity hedging policies. We... April 17, 2015 Client Update Spotlight on Pro Rata Vesting, Rather than Accelerated Vesting, of Awards in Change in Control Events According to Amalgamated Bank, the Trustee to the LongView Funds, five companies have agreed to adopt new measures to limi... April 15, 2015 Client Update Appeals Court Rules That Wal-Mart Can Exclude a Shareholder Proposal About Its Products As has been reported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has decided that Wal-Mart does not have to include i... April 13, 2015 Client Update Chamber of Commerce Seeks SEC Guidance on Confidentiality Agreements after the KBR Action In a letter to SEC Chair White, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, through the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC... April 8, 2015 Client Update SEC Staff Allows Shareholder Proposal to Be Excluded Due to False and Misleading Supporting Statement The SEC staff has determined that a shareholder proposal can be excluded under Rule 14a-8(i)(3) because the supporting sta... Load More
April 28, 2015 Client Update SEC Rule on Stock Buybacks Questioned Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has sent a letter to SEC Chair White to express her concerns about the increase in stock buyb...
April 27, 2015 Client Update Investment Management Regulatory Update - April 2015 SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Adopts Final Regulation A+ Rules SEC Grants No-Action Relief From Section 206(4) to 16th Am...
April 27, 2015 Client Update Proxy Access Shareholder Proposals Show Mixed Voting Results So Far At ten companies where shareholders have cast votes on proxy access shareholder proposals this season, four companies rece...
April 23, 2015 Client Update SEC to Consider Pay for Performance Rulemaking Next Wednesday The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at 10:00 am to consider whether to propose amendments ...
April 22, 2015 Client Update Solicitation Filings in Support of Proxy Access by CalPERS and New York City Pension Funds Companies with proxy access shareholder proposals on their annual meeting ballots are confronting a notice of exempt solic...
April 21, 2015 Client Update Davis Polk Comment Letter to the SEC on the Hedging Disclosure Rule Proposal Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC proposal for companies to disclose their equity hedging policies. We...
April 17, 2015 Client Update Spotlight on Pro Rata Vesting, Rather than Accelerated Vesting, of Awards in Change in Control Events According to Amalgamated Bank, the Trustee to the LongView Funds, five companies have agreed to adopt new measures to limi...
April 15, 2015 Client Update Appeals Court Rules That Wal-Mart Can Exclude a Shareholder Proposal About Its Products As has been reported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has decided that Wal-Mart does not have to include i...
April 13, 2015 Client Update Chamber of Commerce Seeks SEC Guidance on Confidentiality Agreements after the KBR Action In a letter to SEC Chair White, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, through the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC...
April 8, 2015 Client Update SEC Staff Allows Shareholder Proposal to Be Excluded Due to False and Misleading Supporting Statement The SEC staff has determined that a shareholder proposal can be excluded under Rule 14a-8(i)(3) because the supporting sta...