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The new SEC rules regarding compensation committee independence and compensation advisers’ relationships require disclosure of whether the work of certain compensation consultants have ...
A year after opening its new whistleblower office, the SEC announced today that it had paid out $50,000 to an unidentified whistleblower, the first such award under Dodd-Frank. In its pre...
On August 16, 2012, the CFTC proposed rules that would permit affiliated swap counterparties to elect an exemption from mandatory swaps clearing, subject to various conditions. These cond...
On August 13, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission published a notice of proposed rulemaking, setting forth proposed amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Rules aimed a...
We are pleased to announce the publication of Getting The Deal Through Corporate Governance 2012. Davis Polk lawyers Arthur Golden, Thomas Reid and Sapna Dutta authored the Global Ov...
Amidst concerns that the SEC whistleblower rules will encourage employees to bypass internal protocols and take allegations of misconduct directly to the Commission, a survey by the nonpr...
Broadridge recently presented statistics from the 2012 proxy season, covering meetings from March 1st to June 1st. In this period of only 93 days, a staggering volume of shares, nearly 34...
In response to concerns that audit firms were either declining to provide important information or downplaying the results of PCAOB inspections, the PCAOB recently issued a report about h...
On July 24, 2012, the CFTC finalized a rule establishing a schedule for compliance with the mandatory clearing requirements for swaps under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act. On the same da...
Last week, the English High Court ruled that an “exit consent” used by Anglo Irish Bank to impose losses on subordinated bondholders was invalid under English law and violated the ter...