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Recently, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery in Sandys v. Pincus on findings of director independence at Zynga. The Court of Chancery had dismissed the suit for fa...
As described in our recent memorandum, ISS will be using other financial and operational metrics in addition to TSR in evaluating say-on-pay. In a recently updated FAQ on its executive co...
On November 15, 2016, the SEC approved a plan to create a consolidated audit trail (the “CAT”) that will contain a record of order events for most equity and listed options transactio...
On Thursday, December 15, 2016, the White House Press Secretary released a statement noting that an extension of the Iran Sanctions Act (“ISA”), passed overwhelmingly by Congress, is ...
We recently published a client alert describing the possibility of a rollback of the pay ratio disclosure rule under the new administration.
The pay ratio rule has already produced unfore...
On December 5, 2016 the PCAOB announced that it had settled charges against Brazil-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Auditores Independentes for a record $8 million civil penalty. PCAOB News...
With President-elect Donald Trump’s transition underway, speculation has been rife as to the impact of his Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress on a variety of issues, in...
The OCC’s proposed framework for granting special purpose national bank charters could hold significant promise by providing the benefits of federal preemption and a stable regulatory s...
The SEC’s 2016 report to Congress on its whistleblower program announced that it paid out $57 million in fiscal 2016, more than the total amount awarded during the entire first five yea...
An issuer of high yield bonds won dismissal of claims brought by retail noteholders who claimed that a debt swap of new secured notes for unsecured notes, made available only to instituti...