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Retail investors own about 30% of shares but only vote 29% of the time, compared to institutional investors voting 91% of the shares they own, according to a rulemaking petition to the SE...
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into force on May 25, 2018 and features extraterritoriality that will cover many U.S. businesses and substantial fines for ...
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, vacated the DOL fiduciary rule in its entirety. The lawsuit was brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, SI...
Certain investors are expected to hold governance committees, and in some cases the entire board, accountable through director elections this proxy season for perceived lack of board dive...
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced proposals to tighten its jurisdiction over mergers in the military, quantum technology and computing hardware industries. ...
In the first major trading and markets initiative under SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, on March 14, 2018, the SEC proposed to establish a transaction fee pilot program to study the effects of ...
Authored by Jai R. Massari, Annette L. Nazareth, Byron B. Rooney, Jeanine P. McGuinness, Zachary J. Zweihorn, Trevor I. Kiviat, Zachary B. Shapiro, Daniela Dekhtyar-McCarthy and Andrew Ru...
The Trump Administration has officially banned U.S. transactions in Venezuela’s controversial “petro” digital currency. On March 19, 2018, the Trump Administration issued a new Exe...
After a decade of enforcing different aspects of its antitrust laws through three separate bodies, China is expected to consolidate antitrust authority into a single agency as part of a b...
The SEC cybersecurity guidance, which we discuss in this client memo, reminds companies that their directors, officers and “other corporate insiders” should be aware that they may vio...