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On February 28, 2012, the CFTC and the SEC proposed rules and guidelines requiring financial institutions and other creditors under their respective jurisdiction to develop written identi...
The tax provisions commonly referred to as “FATCA” use a 30% withholding tax to enforce a worldwide reporting regime designed to prevent U.S. persons from using offshore accounts to e...
The SEC Staff made several recent decisions on questions of proof of ownership for submission of shareholder proposals, in light of the requirement under Staff Legal Bulletin 14F, which w...
Among the new proxy disclosure requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act is the mandate that issuers disclose in their CD&A [w]hether, and, if so, how the registrant has considered the resu...
As of March 1, 2012, a total of 225 Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines have passed. Of these 225 passed deadlines, 158 (70.2%) have been missed and 67 (29.8%) have been met with ...
On February 9, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) adopted final rule amendments (the “Final Rules”) relating to the registration of commodity pool operato...
On January 19, 2012, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management released responses (“Responses”) to frequently asked questions about Rule 202(a)(11)(G)-1, the so-calle...
Today, February 20, ISS has posted a preview of its updated GRId 2.0 data profiles for U.S. companies. Company representatives can access the GRId profile (for free) through the ISS data...
Just in time before most proxy statements are issued, the SEC staff has issued a CDI on how say-on-pay resolutions should be described on proxy cards and voting instruction forms, with sp...
Instead of being the first company with a proxy access shareholder proposal voted on at its meeting, Hewlett-Packard recently became the third company to agree to implement proxy access. ...