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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 ...
The memorandum addresses today’s announced changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohib...
The SEC announced its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations’ (OCIE) priorities for 2015, which focus on three areas: protecting retail investors, especially those saving for...
Vanguard has indicated that they are in the process of adding language to their proxy voting guidelines to communicate their views on proxy access. They intend to conduct outreach to indi...
Deloitte recently published a 127-page report on SEC comment letter trends that companies may find useful as they prepare their annual 10-K disclosures.
Recognizing that Keith Higgins and...
According to the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), the 2015 proxy season is off to an “explosive start” because of proxy access.
CII announced that it is sending letters to 16...
The UK Takeover Panel has confirmed a number of changes to the UK takeover regime in a series of Panel Statements released in late December and early January.
On 23 December 2014, the Pan...
On January 2, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released a Chief Counsel Advice memorandum (the “CCA”) that concludes that an offshore master fund and its offshore feeder f...
In late December, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable (the Appellants) filed a supplemental brief in the ongoing conflict minera...
On December 22, 2014, the CFTC’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (“DSIO”) issued an advisory (the “Advisory”) providing guidance concerning chief compliance o...