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The SEC staff’s Rule 14a-8 process is being supported by perhaps an unlikely group. Twenty socially responsible investors, led by NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., have begun a campaign...
The Federal Reserve’s Dodd-Frank enhanced prudential standards (EPS) final rule adopts a tiered approach for applying EPS to foreign banks. Under the tiered approach, the most burdensom...
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On March 19, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Tokyo-based trading company Marubeni Corporation had entered a guilty plea and will pay a criminal fine of $88 million in ...
The SEC has announced its agenda and panelists for the roundtable on cybersecurity to be held on Wednesday, March 26 at 9:30 a.m. EST. The event will be webcast live as well as archived. ...
The list of possible topics that shareholders may raise at an annual meeting compiled by BDO USA includes many that companies would expect, such as questions about strategic business deci...
As reported, a proxy access proposal was withdrawn at Disney’s annual meeting today after the company made changes to its governance guidelines related board leadership.
According to a ...
On March 7, 2014, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery found a financial advisor liable for aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duties by the board of Rur...
A string of corporate success in court cases seeking the exclusion of shareholder proposals, one of which we recently discussed here, has ended with two wins for the defendants.
In decidi...
While shareholder engagement has become a best practice, companies frequently wonder whether they should also reach out to the proxy advisory firms. We talked to Marc Goldstein, head of i...