The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at 10:00 am to consider whether to propose amendments requiring companies to disclose the relationship between executiv...

Companies with proxy access shareholder proposals on their annual meeting ballots are confronting a notice of exempt solicitation filed by the California Public Employees Retirement Syste...

Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC proposal  for companies to disclose their equity hedging policies. We previously summarized the rule proposal here. Our comment letter...

According to Amalgamated Bank, the Trustee to the LongView Funds, five companies have agreed to adopt new measures to limit payments in the event of a change in control. Amalgamated Bank ...

As has been reported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has decided that Wal-Mart does not have to include in its 2015 proxy materials a shareholder proposal requesting that...

In a letter to SEC Chair White, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, through the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), has expressed “significant concern” regarding the enforcem...

The SEC staff has determined that a shareholder proposal can be excluded under Rule 14a-8(i)(3) because the supporting statement is false and misleading, a position that they have general...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority recently issued two Regulatory Notices concerning algorithmic trading as part of a larger package of market structure initiatives.  The first R...

A Towers Watson survey found that only about 27% of Fortune 500 companies provided some type of pay-for-performance discussion in 2014. Only 4% of companies added new disclosure, while 5%...

On March 31, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service published final regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code. The final regulations clarify two requirements for exception...