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When the SEC began an investigation of whether a Facebook post by the Netflix CEO violated Regulation FD, companies became alarmed that it represented the regulator’s views that social ...
Glass Lewis is often criticized for its lack of transparency, which is wanting even by the standards of proxy advisory firms. It does not provide companies with a free copy of its own vot...
Regulation FD, adopted by the SEC in 2000, prohibits “selective disclosure” by requiring public companies to disclose material information through broadly accessible channels. Thirtee...
According to the latest Semler Brossy report, only three Russell 3000 companies (Nuance Communications, Digital Generation and Navistar) have failed their say-on-pay vote, with Navistar r...
In the past month, no Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines passed or were met with finalized rules. No new rules that would meet rulemaking requirements were proposed.
As of April...
The PCAOB has proposed a framework for reorganizing existing auditing standards based on topics. Currently, existing standards consist of “AS Standards,” which are new or amended stan...
On March 27, 2013, the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Scalia, held that putative antitrust class plaintiffs must affirmatively establish that damages are capable of measurement o...
As proxy season gets under way and the usual agitation over the influence of the proxy advisory firms begins, the Chamber of Commerce is trying to set some ground rules for the three main...
In a case that potentially has important implications for U.S. antitrust enforcement and for U.S. trade relations with the People’s Republic of China, this month a New York jury found C...
The staff of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets recently released answers to frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) about Securities Exchange Act Rule 15a-6, which are available...