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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...
On March 20, 2012, the CFTC finalized a package of rules related to swap clearing. The rules set standards for:
the arrangements that swap dealers (“SDs”), major swap participants (...
Today President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”). The JOBS Act includes provisions that ease the IPO process and subsequent public report...
Today President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), which was passed by the House of Representatives on March 27, 2012 in the same form passed by th...
Yesterday, the Financial Stability Oversight Council issued its final rule and interpretive guidance setting forth the process by which it will designate a nonbank financial company as sy...
As of April 2, 2012, a total of 222 Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines have passed. Of these 222 passed deadlines, 155 (69.8%) have been missed and 67 (30.2%) have been met with ...
On March 22, 2012, the Senate voted 96-3 to adopt the House version of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (the “STOCK Act”), which most notably extends insider trading la...