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Since July 18, 2014, two rules have been finalized that meet twelve rulemaking requirements, and one rule has been proposed that would meet one rulemaking requirement.
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As a new development in Hong Kong High Court procedure, the Hong Kong Judiciary has announced a pilot scheme for discovery and provision of electronically stored documents in cases in the...
Amnesty International filed a supplemental brief to its late May petition for rehearing of the conflict minerals case, based on the American Meat decision from late July, which we previou...
Facebook is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the compensation paid to its non-executive directors, which we previously discussed here.
Although a board’s decision to grant compe...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Adopts Final Rules to Reform Money Market Funds
Industry Update
SEC Director of Division of Investment Management Speaks on Industry Outreach and Rec...
In a surprising change of direction, the SFC has discarded plans to amend Hong Kong’s companies legislation to make it clear that sponsors of IPOs have statutory prospectus liability.
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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) yesterday fined Berkshire Hathaway Inc. $896,000 to settle allegations that it violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (the “H...
The NYTimes Dealbook recently focused on a Proxy Monitor study that found that 70% of shareholder proposals submitted by individuals to Fortune 250 companies in 2014 were sponsored by thr...
ISS has launched a new Equity Plan Data Verification portal to better reflect the most up-to-date data for investors voting on equity plans. While this process is optional for issuers and...
On August 8, 2014, The Loan Syndications and Trading Association (“LSTA”) published in final form its latest iteration of the Model Credit Agreement Provisions (the “2014 MCAPs”),...