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On November 2, 2011, Treasury released proposed revisions to the regulations under Section 892 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”). Section 892 provides an exemption fro...
Davis Polk is pleased to present the November Dodd-Frank Progress Report. The 37 rulemaking deadlines in October bring the number to date up to 200 - half of the 400 total required by the...
While the U.S. IPO market has slowed down in recent months, Davis Polk’s pipeline of deals in progress is strong, leading us to believe that there will be an uptick in IPO transactions ...
ISS has requested that we update our previous blog post on their draft voting policy updates to inform market participants that they have extended the deadline for receiving comments to N...
On October 26, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) voted unanimously to adopt a new rule under the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”) t...
On October 19, we posted about the Federal Reserve’s recently released report detailing its horizontal review of incentive compensation practices at 25 large banking organizations. The...
On October 13, 2011, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (“DOJ”), Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (together, the “U.S. agencies”) and the Competition Directorate-Ge...
On October 14, 2011, the Delaware Court of Chancery entered a $1.26 billion damages award in In re Southern Peru Copper Corp. S’holder Derivative Litig., a derivative action challenging...
The staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance recently issued Disclosure Guidance on cybersecurity risks. The guidance does not impose any new disclosure obligations but rather...