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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 ...
Based on certifications by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United States, European Union (“EU”), and Iran declared January 16, 2016 to be “Implementation Day” under th...
The past year (2015) saw the seventh year of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”). This note identifies several significant trends in Chinese antitrust enforcement and illustrated the...
In charging senior leaders of a failed bank with fraud, the SEC also held two outside directors responsible.
Eleven executives and board members of the bank were charged by the SEC, which...
Ceres, an environmental nonprofit organization, released this week an SEC Sustainability Disclosure Search Tool. This tool, available here, is the next step in Ceres’s campaign for incr...
The New York City Comptroller issued a press release today announcing that the New York City pension funds (the Funds) have filed 72 new proxy access shareholder proposals, though many we...