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Companies will often enter into interest rate swap agreements in order to hedge their exposure to interest rate risk stemming from floating-rate debt. These hedging arrangements are desig...
A recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division indicates that companies should be careful about providing some, but not all, of an exe...
According to an analysis by Bloomberg, since 2011, 5 of the biggest U.S. activist funds have nominated women just 7 times in seeking 174 board seats. Bloomberg examined Elliot Management...
As part of the UK Government’s drive to improve business transparency, from 6 April 2016 onwards, a new Part 21A of the UK Companies Act 2006 will require UK incorporated companies (tha...
Strong independent leadership will be a key focus of State Street’s 2016 corporate governance engagement program, according to a letter that the investor sent to board members.
All comp...
On March 2, 2016, the CFPB announced that it had settled an enforcement action with Dwolla, Inc., an online payment platform, for making allegedly deceptive statements regarding its data ...
At SEC Speaks 2016, the SEC Enforcement Division indicated that they are interested in investigating public companies’ failure to disclose cyber breaches.
No such case has been brought ...
At SEC Speaks 2016, the Staff in the Division of Corporation Finance discussed the goal of finalizing the three proposed executive compensation rulemakings remaining under the Dodd-Frank ...
This is the first of a multipart series on SEC updates related to corporate governance areas discussed during the recent SEC Speaks conference.
The SEC Staff in Corporation Finance is con...
Following is Davis Polk’s client memorandum on the FDIC’s and the SEC’s proposed rule to implement the provisions applicable to covered broker-dealers under Title II of the Dodd-Fra...