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SEC Grants No-Action Relief to BlackRock Funds for Filing Post-Effective Amendments to Their Registration Statements
SEC Grants No-Action Relief Relating to Ban...
Beginning today, ISS is accepting updates to companies’ self-selected compensation benchmarking peers, if those companies have annual meetings scheduled between February 1, 2016 and Sep...
ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public company directors and unilateral governance changes by boards.
ISS has issued its updates to its proxy voting guidelines effective for meetings on or after February 1, 2016.
The policy update is quite brief and does not address many of the questions ...
This edition of our European Regulatory Snapshot looks at the key aspects of Consultation Paper 15/35 issued by the FCA on 5 November 2015, in conjunction with ESMA’s guidance released ...
On October 30, the SEC voted 3-1 to adopt final rules to permit eligible companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding—a relatively new and evolving Internet-based method ...
In a speech focused on executive compensation disclosure, Keith Higgins raised a number of possible rule changes that he believes could make executive compensation more useful to investor...
On October 30, the SEC voted 3-1 to propose amendments to Securities Act Rule 147 and Rule 504 of Regulation D. The proposed rule amendments are intended to modernize and expand the capit...
On Friday, November 13, NYU Law’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement hosted a roundtable discussion featuring the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division Fraud Chief An...
CalPERS is considering changing its proxy voting policies to account for issues of director tenure. New language in its governance principles could state that director independence may b...