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The Chamber of Commerce has come out swinging in its 30-page comment letter on the SEC rulemaking petition urging public disclosure of corporate political spending, which we previously di...
On January 4, 2013, the Sixth Circuit denied the U.S. government’s petition for en banc review of its September 2012 decision in United States v. Quality Stores that certain severance p...
HPs preliminary proxy statement filed recently included a company proposal to allow any shareholder, or no more than 20 in number, who hold 3% or more of HP shares continuously for 3 ye...
Both the NYSE and NASDAQ have filed further amendments to their proposed listing standards on compensation committees and their advisers. The amendments copy directly from the exception i...
On December 20th, ISS issued two extensive FAQs on their voting policies. This post covers the compensation items (a previous post covered the non-compensation items).
Although the compen...
The memorandum addresses recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohibition prevent...
FINRA’s new rules governing members’ communications with customers and the public will become effective on February 4, 2013.1 The revised communication rules represent a significant o...
The Second Circuit recently issued a decision that relates to whether a sale of one class of equity security and a purchase of a different class of equity security issued by the same comp...
According to a post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, the SEC has updated its entry in the Office of Management and Budgets Unified Agend...
The OCC has published long-awaited guidance notifying federally-chartered insured depository institutions (“IDIs”) that it is prepared to grant applications to delay compliance with t...