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The Occupy Wall Street Movement has turned its focus on annual meetings, which one media outlet is calling “a rare public forum in U.S. business.” News reports indicate that a coaliti...
Today, the SEC issued an order temporarily exempting broker-dealers from the recordkeeping, reporting, and monitoring requirements of its large trader reporting rule (Rule 13h-1) that are...
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve issued guidelines clarifying when banking entities must bring their activities, investments, relationships and transactions into conformance with the Volcke...
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SEC Staff Responds to Form ADV Questions Regarding Exempt Adviser Reporting and Financial Industry Affiliations
SEC Staff Issues Guidance on Issues of Intere...
On April 19, 2012, Davis Polk, in conjunction with Cleary Gottlieb and Sullivan & Cromwell authored a white paper on the separate entity doctrine as applied to the U.S. branches of foreig...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a significant overhaul of FINRA’s rules governing members’ communications with customers and the public. The revised communication ...
Glass Lewis released a brief overview that it calls a “Primer for Issuers.” Glass Lewis reiterates that it does not engage in discussions with companies during the proxy solicitation ...
On April 5, 2012, the President signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), the most significant Congressional relaxation in memory of restrictions surro...
On April 2, 2012, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) issued a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Supplemental NPR”) and req...
On April 5, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), which as we’ve previously noted represents a very significant loosening of rest...