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In the ongoing challenge to the SEC’s conflict minerals rule, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, issued an opinion on August 18 upholding its April 2014 finding that ...
The Federal Trade Commission commits to weighing costs and benefits of conduct at issue before bringing actions against “unfair methods of competition” under Section 5 of the FTC Act,...
“Remember what we learned in school. Acquiescing to bullies only gives them more ammunition and makes it worse.”
Those were part of Commissioner Piwowar’s passionate remarks during ...
On July 14, 2015, the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (the “P5+1”), the High Representative of the European Union (“EU”) for Foreign Affairs and Security...
On August 5, 2015, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted a final rule implementing the provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires U.S. public companies to disclose the ratio of their CEO’s ...
As another example of how proxy access has entered into an advance stage of the governance dialogue, we are now wading into discussions regarding specific bylaw provisions, first with the...
The SEC held an open meeting today to adopt the final rules requiring pay ratio disclosure, which were just released. A company’s first reporting period for the pay ratio disclosure is ...
The United States Department of Justice has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to review a recent Second Circuit opinion that clarified what the Government must prove to establish...
A recent survey by the Brunswick Group counters beliefs that retail investors are always “pro-management” in any voting contest. The survey examined the views of 801 US-based individ...
Changes to charters and bylaws by boards, director and executive compensation, proxy access, director independence and overboarding are the key topics of focus in the ISS survey for the 2...