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On September 25, 2014, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority filed a proposed rule change with the Securities and Exchange Commission to modify existing rules that govern FINRA memb...
SEC Chair White signaled that the proposed rules on CEO pay ratio would be adopted before the end of the year at a Senate Banking Committee hearing last month, or at least that was her ?...
The Treasury Department and the IRS recently released Notice 2014-52 (the “Notice”), which describes regulations that the government intends to issue to target the tax benefits of cor...
In the wake of the recent Momentive ruling on cramdown plan confirmation (discussed in our recent client memorandum
), on September 30, 2014, the bankruptcy court also rejected the senior...
Since some companies have made significant changes to the presentation of their proxy statements, Keith Higgins, Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, is encouraging co...
91% of big companies disclose the existence of anti-hedging policies and 66% mention anti-pledging policies, according to the Meridian 2014 Governance and Design Survey, which examined th...
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In the past month, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed or were met with finalized rules, and no new rules were proposed that would meet rulemaking requirements.
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The Center for Political Accountability has published the 2014 CPA-Zicklin Index, which rates 300 companies in the S&P 500 on their disclosure of corporate political spending. Nearly half...
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has recently published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) that would enhance customer due diligence (“CDD?...
On September 19, 2014, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced that its Board of Governors approved a series of regulatory initiatives primarily focused on equity and fixed ...