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On Friday, just ahead of the expiration of the CFTC’s exemptive order delaying the applicability of some CFTC swap regulations for non-U.S. swap dealers and foreign branches of U.S. swa...
SEC Rules and Regulations
Regulators Adopt Final Regulations Implementing the Volcker Rule
SEC Releases Rule 506 “Bad Actor” Guidance
IM Guidance Update Cautions Against Use of F...
Many comment letters on the proposed SEC pay ratio rules recommend that the Commission exclude non-U.S. employees from the calculation altogether, but some letters also seek clarification...
Commissioner Gallagher recently echoed Chair White’s comments regarding the possibility of modifying public company disclosure requirements, which we previously discussed here, noting t...
The SEC has approved the amendment to Nasdaq’s compensation committee independence requirements, as proposed, which we previously announced in this client newsflash. Companies are requi...
Today the public comment period ended for two proposals by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that we believe could dramatically increase the scope, length, cost and complexity...
On December 4, 2013, the Division of Corporate Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (“C&DIs”) regarding t...
Section 871(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, enacted in 2010, treats “dividend equivalents” as U.S.-source dividends for withholding tax purposes. On December 4, 2013, the Treasury D...
The SEC’s elimination of political contributions from its rulemaking agenda for 2014 has sparked an outcry, including strongly worded outrage from some members of Congress and an op-ed ...
An idea that began in 2005, made its way into a concept release in 2009, and became a proposed rule two years later, has just been reproposed by the PCAOB. The regulatory agency has issue...