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...

The SEC, which has recently been investigating workplace agreements out of concern that they may impede whistleblowing activity protected by the Dodd-Frank Act, announced yesterday its fi...

In the past quarter, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed, four rulemaking requirements were finalized and two rulemaking requirements were proposed. As of the end of the first qua...

The SEC charged that the former CEO of Polycom used corporate funds to pay for about $190,000 of personal perks for several years that were not disclosed. During that time, the CEO’s to...