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Ethan Allen’s seven nominees for the company’s board received overwhelming support in the recent proxy contest against the six candidates proposed by Sandell Asset Management.
The con...
On November 16, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates gave a speech regarding the implementation of the Department of Justice’s recent policy initiatives to facilitate the ...
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) delivered its judgment in Kam Leung Sui Kwan v Kam Kwan Lai & Ors FACV 4/2015 on November 11, 2015. The case concerned two brothers’ disputes ...
SEC Rules and Regulations
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...