Our lawyers produce a wealth of substantive, timely and practical guidance and resource materials. Subscribe to receive updates based on your interests.
On December 20th, ISS issued two extensive FAQs on their voting policies. A separate blog will cover the compensation items.
The non-compensation FAQs cover old ground in many respects, i...
On December 21, 2012, the CFTC issued a final exemptive order relating to the application of certain swap-related provisions of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act to swap activities outside ...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Staff Responds to Questions About Form PF
SEC Releases Guidance on Advisers Act Exemption for CFTC-Registered Investment Advisers that Advise Private Fun...
Nasdaq has filed an amendment to its proposed listing standards with respect to compensation committees, as referred to in our recent post. The key provisions include:
Effective Dates. ...
The Federal Reserve has proposed a tiered approach for applying U.S. capital, liquidity and other Dodd-Frank enhanced prudential standards to the U.S. operations of foreign banking organi...
Most of the 15 comment letters on the proposed listing standards for compensation committees by the NYSE and Nasdaq focused on committee member independence. Some commentators, including ...
The Federal Reserve has proposed a tiered approach for applying U.S. capital, liquidity and other Dodd-Frank enhanced prudential standards to the U.S. operations of foreign banking organi...
On December 10, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) charged eight former directors (the “Directors”) of five Morgan Asset Management (“MAM”) registered in...
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters has sent a number of companies shareholder proposals seeking (a) triennial say-on-pay votes and (b) a vote not only on the overall executive compensat...
On December 12, 2012, the Commission announced an action plan seeking to modernize company law and corporate governance1 (the “Action Plan”), organized around the following three them...