For those who wondered what happened to the rule proposal that the SEC issued in January 2011 requiring that investment managers report their say-on-pay votes at least annually, the staff...

In the midst of the clamor for disclosure reform that questions whether the current regime requires too much information in public filings, the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) wa...

The SEC staff recently disagreed with Procter & Gamble’s no-action letter, which sought to exclude a shareholder proposal on ordinary business grounds, although a similar proposal sent ...

The move toward stricter regulation of remuneration in the financial services industry in the European Union has continued over the course of the past year, rendering the web of overlappi...

In a lengthy bench ruling delivered on August 26, 2014, Judge Robert D. Drain of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York held that Momentive Performance M...

In this Report: 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. ...

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...