A newly leaked memo outlines the changes to be made in the next version of Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s CHOICE Act, including changes to the core regulatory off-ramp provision and to stress te...

State Street’s letter to board members emphasizes the importance of sustainability in long-term corporate strategy. As they have previously focused at length on the importance of indepe...

In waning days of the Obama Administration, the U.S. Antitrust Agencies reached three settlements totaling $1.4 million for violations of the premerger notification and waiting period req...

On 3 February 2017, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Practical Guide to national rules across the EEA on notifications of major shareholdings under the Tra...

Acting SEC Chairman Piwowar issued a statement today asking for public comment on any “unexpected challenges” that companies have experienced as they prepared for compliance with the ...

Yesterday afternoon, President Trump issued a memorandum directing the DOL to review the fiduciary rule it released last April that expanded the definition of an investment advice fiducia...

There is a world of difference between the initial public perceptions and the actual text of the executive order. The elegantly written Executive Order, sets forth a series of core princi...

Yesterday, Acting SEC Chairman Piwowar issued a public statement that he has directed the staff to reconsider whether the 2014 guidance on the conflict minerals rules is “still appropri...

A group of major investors has endorsed a corporate governance framework to go into effect on January 1, 2018. The Investor Stewardship Group (ISG) currently comprises BlackRock, CalSTRS,...

For our view that there is unlikely to be a dramatic shift in the Dodd-Frank regulatory paradigm, but that there are plenty of very good reasons to engage in a serious rebalancing of rece...