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On May 20, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed rules, forms and amendments under both the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment C...
The question of whether companies should be required to disclose how long they have retained the same auditors may be part of the concept release on audit committees that the SEC plans to...
Last week, the Delaware House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that amends the Delaware General Corporation law to prohibit stock corporations from inserting “fee-shifting?...
In November of 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) promulgated a rule that required a Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (“HSR Act”) filing when a transaction res...
Of the 63 companies that opposed proxy access shareholder proposals and have announced voting results, 36 proposals received more support than in opposition and 27 proposals did not obtai...
Twenty-one comment letters have been submitted about the SEC’s proposed rules on disclosure of hedging by employees, officers and directors, including ours linked here.
The Council of I...
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has published its final “BitLicense” rule for virtual currency businesses, as announced by outgoing NYDFS Superintendent Lawsky i...
Continuing to add to the speculation that the pay ratio disclosure rules will be finalized by fall as we recently discussed here, the SEC issued a press release yesterday that the staff h...
According to the Regulatory Flexibility Agenda recently published, we can expect to see a host of governance rulemaking from the SEC on or before April 2016. However, the Agenda has gener...
On May 13, 2015, the SEC published proposed amendments and re-proposed rules on the application of certain Title VII requirements to cross-border security-based swap activities of non-U.S...