Deadlines for calendar-year companies are rapidly approaching Many companies were required to include “say-on-frequency” proposals in their 2017 annual meeting proxies. Under a say-on...

Shareholder activism decreases the number of women and minority directors on target company boards, an impact seen even after activism ends, according to a new ISS study commissioned by t...

Earlier this summer, the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a Chief Counsel Advice (CCA) memorandum providing insight into how the IRS interprets a...

The U.S. banking agencies (the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC) propose to delay the last phase of the U.S. Basel III capital rules’ transition provisions relating to certain deductions f...

In United States v. Martoma , a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a key holding of its previous decision in United States v. Newman and significantly loosene...

As a follow-up to our prior post, the OMB has approved the DOL’s proposal to delay the full applicability date of the exemptions related to the fiduciary rule and shortly thereafter the...

Rules and Regulations SEC Staff Releases FAQs on Investment Company Reporting Modernization Reforms SEC’s Acting Director of OCIE Says Private Equity May Be Less of a Priority Ahead SE...

Rules and Regulations SEC’s Acting Director of OCIE Says Private Equity May Be Less of a Priority Ahead SEC Confirms That Some Initial Coin Offerings Are Illegal Unregistered Securitie...

New EEOC regulations seeking pay data will not go into effect in March 2018 as planned.  According to the EEOC, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) informed the Commission that it i...

The NYSE has asked the SEC to delay the effectiveness of its recently approved rule requiring listed companies to provide notice to the Exchange at least 10 minutes before making a public...