This Chapter discusses the expanded powers that a foreign bank or its parent [herein foreign banking organization or FBO] may exercise in the United States if it successfully elects to be...

Recently, the Investment Company Institute released the broadest study ever conducted on proxy voting by registered investment companies (“Funds”), covering more than 3.5 million prox...

When a company finds itself hard-pressed to pay its debts, its officers and directors often must make difficult decisions, frequently under challenging constraints. Many of those choices ...

Much as the demand for auditor independence followed the wave of accounting scandals several years ago, there has been increasing focus on the “independence” of the compensation consu...

The Group of Thirty (G30) commenced a 17-jurisdiction review of financial regulatory approaches in July 2007, prior to the current market turmoil that has impacted many countries around t...