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CII indicated that shareholders plan to “get tough” on boards adopting what it calls “troublesome access provisions.” See here for the headline. CII’s data shows that one-third ...
The SEC plans to hold a vote on adopting a final resource extraction rule on or before June 27, 2016, which is within 270 days of the filing of a recent notice with the U.S. District Cour...
Just before the deadline on Friday, both the SEC and Amnesty International filed petitions for a review of the most recent court decision on the SEC’s conflict minerals rule. The petiti...
As of the end of the third quarter of 2015, a total of 271 Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines have passed. Of these 271 passed deadlines, 193 (71.2%) have been met with finalized...
On September 22, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed modifications to its position limit aggregation requirements for owned entities (the “2015 Aggregation Proposal?...
On September 17, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission settled its first enforcement action involving an unregistered Bitcoin derivatives trading platform. Coinflip, Inc. operate...
ISS has released the results of its survey, which will govern changes to its policies beginning with annual meetings after February 1, 2016. A draft of the updated policy will be issued o...
As has been widely mentioned by SEC Commissioners and Staff, the Staff has been undertaking a broad-based review of disclosure requirements, known as the Disclosure Effectiveness Initiati...
The New York Stock Exchange has amended its rules regarding the public release of material information, which will become operative on September 28. Most significantly, the amendments to ...
Those following the latest developments on proxy access may be interested in Jim McRitchie’s recent blog post, where he posted the language of a new version of proxy access that he is s...