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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...
In the midst of the focus on executive compensation litigation, a recent Delaware opinion serves as a reminder that stockholder approval of at least some portion of director compensation ...
On July 5, 2012, the Code Committee of the U.K. Takeover Panel (the “Panel”) published three Public Consultation Papers (“PCPs”) setting out proposed amendments to the U.K. Takeov...
The first wave filers – the largest and most complex domestic and foreign bank holding companies – have now filed their living wills and the public portions have been posted on the FD...
The SEC and CFTC have adopted joint final rules further defining the terms “swap,” “security-based swap” and “security-based swap agreement,” and delineating jurisdiction over...
On July 6, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions released a consultation paper on margin requirements for uncleared deriv...