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The board should take action when director elections or say-on-pay votes receive less than 80% support, according to the Glass Lewis updated policy guidelines:
Board responsiveness. Glas...
Does the bipartisan Senate bill described in our earlier post leave large banks, i.e., banking organizations with $250 billion or more in total consolidated assets, and foreign banking or...
On November 21, 2017, the Financial Stability Board (“FSB”) has published its 2017 list of global systemically important banking organizations (“G-SIBs”) as determined by its annu...
On November 21, 2017, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Curry v. Yelp, Inc., No. 16-15104, affirming the district court’s dismissal with prejudice of a securities fraud action agai...
The U.S. banking agencies (the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC) have delayed the last phase of the U.S. Basel III capital rules’ transition provisions relating to certain deductions from ...
The bipartisan Senate bill would open the door to welcome relief for regional and community bank holding companies (BHCs) by raising the statutory threshold for enhanced prudential standa...
The Trump Treasury Department’s vision for how the FSOC should fulfill its mission is emerging.[1] Ironically, this new, and we think better vision, may be closer to how the Obama Trea...
ISS has issued its policy updates, effective for meetings held on or after February 1, 2018.
The updates are more limited in their scope compared to past seasons. ISS conducted a two-par...
In a move that took some by surprise, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton on Tuesday rejected requests from the SROs to delay the implementation of the Consolidated Audit Trail (“CAT”), despite ...
Our navigator serves as a guide to the tax bill just passed by the House. It reflects the official print of the bill reported to the floor on November 10, 2017, and passed on November 16....