The SEC has announced that it will host a roundtable on February 19 on ways to improve the proxy voting process. The roundtable will be divided into two panels: The state of contested di...

Wal-Mart Stores is appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to vacate a mandatory injunction that requires Wal-Mart to include a shareholder proposal in its 2015 proxy...

The recent statement from Chair White that the SEC staff will not issue any decisions this season on no-action letters asking to exclude shareholder proposals on the basis that a company ...

A new no-action letter from the SEC staff substantially revises the rules applicable to shortened debt tender offers and expands their utility. The new rules may also portend changes in p...

Davis Polk partner Ed FitzGerald and I spoke in December with Tapestry’s Compensation Committee Leadership Network (CCLN) on forthcoming SEC executive compensation rules, as summarized ...

On December 17, 2014, the SEC proposed rule amendments intended to make it easier for private companies to raise capital, by relaxing existing requirements that would otherwise force them...

Companies contemplating U.S. acquisitions or with existing U.S. investments should be aware of two recent regulatory developments involving notifications to U.S. authorities. The Federal ...

SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Extends No-Action Relief to Three Derivatives Clearing Organizations Regarding Custody Rule Industry Update SEC’s National Examination Program Releases ...

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced on May 21, 2014 and December 10, 2014 that it had disciplined a Type 6 corporate finance adviser (A), its affiliated Type 1 broker en...

The SEC has issued a statement, which, although no mention of the proxy access proposals is specifically made, addresses the controversy surrounding the SEC staff’s recent decisions to ...