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ISS has issued its policy survey for 2013. The survey seeks input from institutional investors, issuers and other corporate governance participants, with 31 questions of relevance to the...
The quieter summer months muted what may turn out to be an important turning point in the proxy access landscape: the SEC staff denial of no-action requests for proxy access proposals sub...
On July 10, 2012, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) issued a no-action letter that will extend until December 31, 2012 relief from registration as a commodity...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (the “Court”) recently potentially expanded the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. antitrust laws. Its unanimous en banc decision in ...
On July 11, 2012, the SEC adopted a rule requiring the national securities exchanges and FINRA to jointly propose and implement a plan that would require these organizations and their mem...
This special Progress Report marks the two-year anniversary of Dodd-Frank. To highlight the occasion, we have developed several additional features that explore aspects of Dodd-Frank in n...
The Dodd-Frank Act’s swap regulatory regime requires “swap dealers” and “major swap participants” (“MSPs”) to register with the CFTC and comply with significant new regulato...
Cognitive bias leads to faulty decisionmaking, warned Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster at the National Conference of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals. In ...
On July 11, 2012 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issued supervisory guidance describing a new, optional process for pre-filing staff review of specific aspects of pro...
For the past two proxy seasons, companies have criticized how proxy advisory services have selected company peer groups in order to evaluate pay for performance for purposes of making...