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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...
In this Report:
In the past quarter, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed, eleven rulemaking requirements were finalized and one rulemaking requirement was proposed.
At the end ...
Although the SEC permitted Whole Foods to exclude a shareholder proposal asking the board to amend its bylaws to allow for proxy access on the basis of a conflicting management proposal t...
The FAQs issued by ISS on its new Equity Plan Scorecard (EPSC) model indicate that the revised model will consider, and score, a range of positive and negative factors, rather than use a ...
ISS recently issued new FAQs on its 2015 policy updates. As we discussed in our memo, a key change relates to how ISS will make recommendations for companies with shareholder proposals se...