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In late December, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable (the Appellants) filed a supplemental brief in the ongoing conflict minera...
On December 22, 2014, the CFTC’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (“DSIO”) issued an advisory (the “Advisory”) providing guidance concerning chief compliance o...
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In the past quarter, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed, eleven rulemaking requirements were finalized and one rulemaking requirement was proposed.
At the end ...
Although the SEC permitted Whole Foods to exclude a shareholder proposal asking the board to amend its bylaws to allow for proxy access on the basis of a conflicting management proposal t...
The FAQs issued by ISS on its new Equity Plan Scorecard (EPSC) model indicate that the revised model will consider, and score, a range of positive and negative factors, rather than use a ...
ISS recently issued new FAQs on its 2015 policy updates. As we discussed in our memo, a key change relates to how ISS will make recommendations for companies with shareholder proposals se...
RR Donnelley’s survey from last year on how investors view proxy statements continues to be worth considering now, as companies begin preparing their public disclosure documents for the...
On Friday, December 19, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction entered by the Delaware Court of Chancery which had (a) barred, for 30 days, a stockholder vote ...
Professor Joseph Grundfest of Stanford Law School and SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher have co-authored an academic paper with the provocative title “Did Harvard Violate Federal Securi...
On December 16, 2014, the President signed into law an amendment to Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Act (known as the “Swaps Pushout Rule” or the “Lincoln Amendment”) as part of a $...