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On June 17, 2013, the Supreme Court decided a case of considerable importance to the pharmaceutical industry. The case involved the question of whether and to what extent “reverse payme...
Last week, Starboard Value, which with nearly 15% of the shares of Office Depot is the company’s largest shareholder, filed a complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery to order the co...
Three whistleblowers were awarded a total of 15% of the money that the SEC will ultimately collect from its enforcement action against Locust Offshore Management LLC and its CEO, accordin...
Governance surveys indicate that the S&P 500 companies have largely dismantled their takeover defenses and have established so-called “good” governance practices, but that is not the ...
On June 10, 2013, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”), following a request from the European Commission, published a report comparing the liability regimes applied ...
On June 5, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed amendments to rules under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”) and relate...
The Administrative Review Board of the Department of Labor concluded that Lockheed Martin had violated Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after an employee alleged that the company ret...
The controversy surrounding proxy advisory firms has reached Congress, as the House Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee held a hearing yesterday to examine t...
The Federal Reserve has issued an interim final rule clarifying the treatment of uninsured U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks under Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Act (“Swaps Pu...
On May 16, 2013, the CFTC adopted final rules relating to the registration and operation of swap execution facilities, the Dodd Frank Act’s mandatory trade execution requirement and the...