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Yesterday, by a vote of 73 to 26, the U.S. Senate passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, which was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 8, 2012, but voted to am...
Today, the U.S. Senate passed the House version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act with amendments only to place further limitations on the “crowdfunding” exempti...
On February 15, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a final rule release (the “Release”) adopting amendments (the “Amendments”) to Rule 205-3 under...
On February 23, 2012, the CFTC adopted final rules regarding the internal business conduct of swap dealers and major swap participants under the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules combine five sep...
A number of companies have been unhappy to discover that ISS’ recent adoption and resulting move to GRId 2.0 changed “low” or “medium” concerns to move up a notch (to “medium?...
In a sign of the growing importance of Chinese competition law to global M&A transactions, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently approved Western Digital Corp.’s acquisitio...
A number of recent studies have noted a substantial decrease in IPOs by smaller companies and a perceived lack of hospitality to smaller companies in the public markets. Commentators have...
The SEC Staff has agreed that several companies can exclude their proxy access shareholder proposals that were modeled on a template provided by the United States Proxy Exchange, which al...
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...