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When this blog began in November 2016, we noted that the Financial CHOICE Act proposed by Rep. Jeb Hensarling was only the beginning. While many eyes continued to be fixed on the House Fi...
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and the New York City Pension Funds launched the Boardroom Accountability Project in the fall of 2014, by submitting shareholders proposals to 75 ...
Wall Street, Meet Fearless Girl. See the picture and watch the video.
That’s the tagline used by State Street in announcing, on the eve of International Women’s Day, that it has place...
Today, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Somers v. Digital Realty Trust Inc., No. 15-17352 (9th Cir. Mar. 8, 2017), deciding that Dodd-Frank Act’s anti-retaliation provision “sho...
On March 1, the SEC adopted rules requiring hyperlinks to filed exhibits listed in the exhibit indexes of most SEC current and periodic reports and registration statements. The rules cove...
As many of you prepare to file your proxy statements this month, two quick reminders on new developments to keep in mind:
There is no longer a requirement to send the SEC hard copies of ...
On March 1, the SEC announced that foreign private issuers (FPIs) that prepare financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) must file using eXtensible Bus...
The Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Criminal Division (the “Fraud Section”) recently published an Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (the “Evalu...
The DOL’s proposal, published today, seeks to delay the applicability date of the fiduciary rule for 60 days and solicits comments on the rule’s impact on the financial services indus...
The SEC approved rules yesterday to require issuers to include a hyperlink to the exhibits listed in the exhibit index. This applies to registration statements and reports subject to the ...