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The importance of the retail shareholder vote came out in force this past season, as 85% of retail shares were cast against proxy access shareholder proposals at over 80 companies. At the...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) recently published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”)1 that would extend...
The SEC’s recent concept release on possible revisions to audit committee disclosure has ignited debate about whether additional information, and the type of information, that would be ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a significant opinion last week, reversing a lower court decision and extending the whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions of th...
Yesterday, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates gave a speech concerning the Department of Justice’s guidance memorandum issued on September 9, 2015 that further underscores DOJ...
Oxfam America scored a recent victory when the U.S. District Court in the District of Massachusetts decided that the SEC must file with the Court an expedited schedule for promulgating a ...
The past year has seen the issue of financial sector pay continue to generate headlines. With the EU having put in place a complex web of overlapping law, regulation and guidance during 2...
NYSE listed companies are currently required to notify the Exchange before disseminating material news so that it can halt trading if needed. Now the NYSE has proposed, in a rule filing w...
ISS counts Tempur Sealy as among the 28 proxy contests during the first six months of 2015, the busiest period for contests since 2009, even though the dissidents waged a “vote no” ca...
The SEC Office of Economic and Risk Analysis has made available on its website a lengthy working paper on proxy access, specifically on the trade-offs between universal proxy access throu...