Davis Polk is pleased to announce the launch of its Intellectual Property and Tech Transactions Update, a quarterly newsletter that will feature summaries and analysis of recent developme...

In what we expect to be the first step in a process of increasing the transparency of the Federal Reserve’s supervisory stress tests and their application to banking organizations subje...

This memorandum highlights some considerations for the preparation of your 2017 annual report on Form 20-F. As in previous years, we discuss both disclosure developments as well as contin...

It’s no longer a trendy topic, but instead has become routine, to recognize that investors are deeply interested in board composition.  The 2017 Spencer Stuart Board Index on S&P 500 bo...

Six years after finalizing the first set of Basel III reforms to the capital framework for banking organizations, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has agreed on and released the...

Under a rule change that is effective immediately, a NYSE listed company is prohibited from issuing material news after the NYSE trading session ends until the earlier of (a) five minutes...

The Framework for U.S. Stewardship and Governance launched by the Investor Stewardship Group, which we previously discussed here, becomes effective on January 1, 2018. According to a pres...

The Senate’s bipartisan regulatory relief bill advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee this week with only minor changes and remains on a path to a filibuster-proof majority.  The ...

The SEC has approved a rule change to the NYSE Listed Company Manual Section 202.06 from a proposal it made back in August, which it initially delayed in October until the Exchange later ...

Our navigator serves as a guide to the final Senate tax bill passed by the Senate on December 2, 2017. It includes a table of contents organizing the Senate bill by subject matter, with ...