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When companies engage with BlackRock’s corporate governance team, they may be asked about the company’s “strategic framework for long-term value creation,” according to the letter...
Facebook has announced its settlement of a lawsuit filed in June 2014, alleging that its board of directors breached their fiduciary duties and unjustly enriched themselves and wasted cor...
2015 proved to be a year of continued focus on anti-corruption enforcement. We have distilled key aspects of the year’s enforcement trends and resolutions to offer you succinct summarie...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Staff Issues Report on Definition of “Accredited Investor”
SEC Staff Grants No-Action Relief Allowing Use of Rule 486(b) to File Post-Effective Amendmen...
Shareholders at several companies will vote on proposals asking boards to adopt a payout policy that gives preference to share repurchases instead of cash dividends. The proponents’ sup...
To be guilty of insider trading, a tipper of inside information must receive a “personal benefit” in exchange for his tips. On January 19, 2016, the Supreme Court granted certiorari i...
The WJS’s interactive graph on the 4,500 directors in the S&P 500 provides an interesting compilation of the hot topics of the day, including the number of women on boards, director ind...
The CFTC recently adopted final uncleared swap margin and segregation requirements. Similarly, the U.S. prudential regulators adopted final margin and segregation requirements for unclear...
The memorandum addresses today’s announced changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohib...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated in a recent report that even if equal proportions of women and men joined boards each year beginning in 2015, it could take more ...