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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...
On June 8, 2012 and June 29, 2012, the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued responses (the “Responses”) to frequently ask...
On July 9, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a significant decision holding that a trademark licensee could continue to use a licensed trademark notw...