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On 24 April 2018, the Stock Exchange issued the Conclusions to the Consultation Paper on A Listing Regime for Companies from Emerging and Innovative Sectors, launching with effect from 30...
On April 20, 2018, a panel of Ninth Circuit judges held that Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 does not require a showing that a defendant acted with scienter, and that...
On April 24, the United States Supreme Court issued two opinions about the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (“USPTO”) inter partes review procedure. First, it upheld the ...
Some companies may not be aware that since February, their Yahoo Finance web page includes a separate tab with the ESG scores from Sustainalytics. The Sustainalytics quote page shows a c...
Not enough detail to support an argument that the proposal was not significant to the company
In December, the first letter was denied for failure to explain the board’s reasoning.
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The Federal Reserve and the OCC have proposed a rule that would recalibrate the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (eSLR) requirements applicable to U.S. GSIBs and their insured deposi...
The Stress Buffer Requirements (SBR) Proposal would fundamentally restructure how the Federal Reserve’s stress testing and capital planning framework is used to impose capital requireme...
As the march of highly-publicized consumer data breaches and privacy incidents continues, congressional interest in data privacy legislation is increasing. Alongside recent congressional ...
On March 20, 2018, the Supreme Court decided Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund (“Cyan”), ruling unanimously that, under the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards...