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In December 2017, the market greeted with great interest the Consultation Conclusions to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s New Board Concept Paper containing a blueprint for opening up the...
On February 21, 2018, in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, [1] the Supreme Court held that the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions only apply where a securiti...
A company will be permitted to exclude a shareholder proposal seeking a report assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use “K-Cup Pods brand packaging.” The company argu...
The U.S. government is sending a series of signals that it intends to focus on Chinese banks and corporate entities as potential points of additional pressure on North Korea. Close U.S. ...
On February 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission released updated interpretive guidance on cybersecurity disclosure, reaffirming staff guidance issued in 2011, providing more detail...
The SEC staff recently denied no-action relief to two Nasdaq-listed companies that sought to exclude proposals asking for independent chairmen where the resolutions referred to NYSE indep...
In a long-awaited report to the President, the Treasury Department recommended reforming—but not repealing—the orderly liquidation authority (“OLA”) created by Title II of the Dod...
For the first time, the CFTC has fined a company for poor cybersecurity practices that resulted in a third-party breach of the company’s information systems. This development is consis...