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The OCC has issued a final rule specifying the methods for calculating credit exposure arising from derivatives and securities financing transactions for purposes of the federal lending l...
Recently, in the second of the NYSE Governance and Proxy interview series, I discussed the events this season surrounding proxy disclosure, say-on-pay, activism and proxy advisory firms w...
On June 17, 2013, the Supreme Court decided a case of considerable importance to the pharmaceutical industry. The case involved the question of whether and to what extent “reverse payme...
Last week, Starboard Value, which with nearly 15% of the shares of Office Depot is the company’s largest shareholder, filed a complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery to order the co...
Three whistleblowers were awarded a total of 15% of the money that the SEC will ultimately collect from its enforcement action against Locust Offshore Management LLC and its CEO, accordin...
Governance surveys indicate that the S&P 500 companies have largely dismantled their takeover defenses and have established so-called “good” governance practices, but that is not the ...
On June 10, 2013, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”), following a request from the European Commission, published a report comparing the liability regimes applied ...
On June 5, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed amendments to rules under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”) and relate...
The Administrative Review Board of the Department of Labor concluded that Lockheed Martin had violated Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after an employee alleged that the company ret...
The controversy surrounding proxy advisory firms has reached Congress, as the House Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee held a hearing yesterday to examine t...