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As expected, Senator Carl Levin and thirteen other Democratic Senators yesterday introduced a bill that would significantly limit, for a two-year period, the ability of U.S. corporations ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has defined, for the first time by a federal appellate court, a key statutory term in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”...
According to a recent speech by Chair White, one of the key decision points in nearly every enforcement action is who will be charged as a defendant. She disputed the notion that the SEC ...
While the battle over the SEC’s conflict minerals reporting rules have been the subject of much attention, less focus has fallen on the SEC’s defunct resource extraction rules. Since ...
Significant new rules to strengthen the UK premium listing regime come into force today. The rules have been the subject of two rounds of consultation by the UK Financial Conduct Authorit...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently issued a proposal to establish a framework of recordkeeping, reporting and notification requirements for security-based swap de...
Yesterday, without explanation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the National Association of Manufacturers’ emergency motion to stay the effectiveness of th...
As noted in several press reports, Pershing Square’s recent SEC filing of a preliminary proxy statement related to Allergen is an unusual maneuver in its efforts to cause a merger of th...
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) has taken the novel approach of filing a letter with the SEC Directors at the Division of Enforcement and the Division of Corporation Finance,...
A coalition of proxy advisory firms, including ISS and Glass Lewis, is disputing the requirements in the proposed EU revisions to the Shareholder Rights Directive related to their service...