Under its 2019 updated guidelines, Glass Lewis will typically recommend against the members of the nominating and governance committee when a company is able to exclude a shareholder prop...

The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Staff Legal Bulletin 14J to provide guidance on some of the issues that bedeviled us earlier this year as to when the staff would,...

In March 2018, the Chinese government announced that the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) would replace the tripartite structure established by China’s 2008 Anti-Monopo...

Rules and Regulations SEC Staff Grants No-Action Relief to the Independent Directors Council Under Rules 10f-3, 17a-7 and 17e-1 Under the Investment Company Act of 1940 Industry Update ...

The Business Roundtable (BRT) and the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) have found common ground in supporting the revised Commonsense Principles 2.0, updated from 2016 and led onc...

Industry Update Director of Division of Investment Management Testifies About Division Oversight Co-Director of SEC Enforcement Steven Peikin Gives Remarks on Remedies and Relief in SEC ...

Two key, but limited, policy changes for U.S. companies have been proposed by ISS.  The open comment period will run through 5:00 p.m. ET on November 1. Board Gender Diversity. Beginning ...

On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Section 21(a) report of investigation emphasizing the importance of assessing the likelihood of cyberattacks when designing int...

The Treasury Department has issued temporary regulations establishing a pilot program to implement two provisions of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 that did ...

Retail shareholders own about 30% of public companies, a fairly consistent level over the past five years, but only about 28% of those shares are voted, according to the latest issue of P...