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It seems fitting to talk about elections today, albeit of a very different kind. Our memo on the SEC proposal to mandate universal proxies is here.
A paper by the Harvard Law School Prog...
On October 20, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Department of Justice: Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) jointly issued antitrust law guidance for human resource profession...
In a ruling released yesterday morning, three senior judges of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (the “High Court”) handed the UK Government a significant defeat in relat...
A recent compliance and disclosure interpretation by the SEC staff indicated that, in lieu of mailing paper copies of a company’s annual report to the SEC or filing it on Edgar, a compa...
Editor’s note: this post has been edited since the date of its original publication.
On October 26, 2016, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”) announced initiat...
In October 2016, the U.S. federal banking agencies jointly issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking regarding enhanced cyber risk management standards (the “Enhanced Standards”...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Adopts Sweeping Reforms to Enhance Liquidity Risk Management for Mutual Funds and ETFs
SEC Adopts Rules to Modernize Information Reported by Investment Comp...
ISS has launched its data verification from October 31, 2016 to November 11, 2016 for the underlying data used in QuickScore (to be rebranded as QualityScore). The data is also used by I...
Yesterday ISS published its draft 2017 voting policies for public comment. Any updated policies will apply to meetings held on or after February 1, 2017. Comments are due by 6:00 p.m. EST...
On October 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed long-expected changes to the proxy rules in order to mandate the use of universal proxy cards in contested elections at annu...