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On June 23, 2016, the UK electorate voted to leave the European Union. The referendum was advisory rather than mandatory and does not have any immediate legal consequences. It will, howev...
In its annual stewardship report covering 2015, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) indicated that it had voted at 15,471 meetings in 81 countries. The investor voted against management ...
A hearing on SEC oversight held by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee where Chair White testified and took questions covered a range of topics, but two senators turne...
The White House recently announced an initiative by 28 companies that have pledged to conduct annual gender pay analysis, similar to a shareholder proposal this proxy season that received...
This client memorandum looks at some of the key aspects of the new EU Market Abuse Regulation, which will apply to U.S. issuers with securities admitted to trading on an EU trading venue ...
On June 9, 2016, New York’s highest court issued an important decision on the “common interest doctrine,” limiting the circumstances in which parties with common legal interests may...
Last month, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued final and temporary regulations that clarify the employment tax treatment of p...
New Item 16 in the Form 10-K would expressly allow issuers to do something that is already permissible – provide a summary in the Form 10-K.
Each summary topic must be hyperlinked (a ...
In a strongly worded statement, Gary Retelny, President and CEO of ISS, testified before the House Committee on Financial Services about the Proxy Advisory Firm Reform Act. We previously ...
On June 1, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear constitutional challenges to ongoing Securities and Ex...