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A group of nine public pension fund fiduciaries has filed a rulemaking petition with the SEC to ask for new disclosure about the gender, race and ethnicity of director nominees in proxy s...
In the first of what is promised to be a series, the PCAOB issued a communication to audit committees to highlight key areas of recurring concern in PCAOB inspections of large audit firms...
On April 30, 2015, the Delaware Court of Chancery held for the second time in three years that a decision by a board of directors or a board’s compensation committee to award equity to ...
The long-term monopoly in China’s bank card clearing market held by China UnionPay (“UnionPay”) is set to end. According to a new decision published by the State Council of the Peop...
On April 14, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) released its long-awaited re-proposed regulation redefining who is a “fiduciary” under Section 3(21) of the Employee Retire...
As companies begin to assess the impact of the SEC’s recent pay versus performance rule proposal, which we discussed here, ISS Corporate Solutions reports that performance pay now compr...
U.S. companies with foreign subsidiaries and other affiliates are required to report detailed information to the Bureau of Economic Analysis by May 29 or June 30, depending on the number ...
SEC Chair White urged companies that “it is past time to stop wringing our hands about whistleblowers,” announcing that whistleblowers “provide an invaluable public service” and t...
This season ISS is tracking only 10 proposals seeking to declassify boards, a two-third drop from the number of proposals in 2014. This is likely attributable to the absence of assistance...
Boston-based biotech Intarcia Therapeutics announced this week that it had secured $225 million in aprivate synthetic royalty financing. The financing is in the form of limited recourse n...