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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...
In a recent speech to the Council of Institutional Investors, SEC Commissioner Kara Stein expressed her support for CII’s rulemaking petition seeking universal proxy ballots for proxy c...
The most common trigger for clawback of compensation is the occurrence of a restatement of financial results, according to a PwC study of 100 large public companies’ proxy disclosure fr...
Earlier today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued the following decision in the
City of Pontiac Policemen’s & Firemen’s Ret. Sys. et al. v. UBS AG et al...
The SEC’s official position last Friday, which we discussed here, reinforced the Staff’s earlier guidance, and boiled down to a requirement to comply with the conflict minerals rules ...
On May 2, 2014, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a preliminary injunction motion by activist stockholder Third Point LLC to enjoin Sotheby’s annual meeting based on claims that the...