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On July 12, 2011, the SEC issued an order (the “Order”) that raises the dollar amount thresholds in the assets-under-management and net worth tests in the definition of “qualified c...
Last week the federal banking agencies released interagency supervisory guidance designed to create new, and higher, best practices for counterparty credit risk (CCR) management at bankin...
As is their customary timing, on Friday afternoon the SEC issued several updated CD&I interpretations of particular interest to the governance community:
–Information About Non-Continu...
On July 7, 2011, the FTC published on its website a notice of final rulemaking, setting forth substantial revisions and amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Premerger Notificat...
With the vast majority of this year’s annual shareholder meetings for U.S. public companies behind us (at least for those with calendar-year fiscal years), we wanted to update the findi...
Proposals to elect directors by a majority vote fared well this season, averaging 56.6% at 31 companies as of early June. This was the topic with the most number of submissions, as Carpe...
Davis Polk is pleased to present the fourth Davis Polk Dodd-Frank Progress Report. This month, rules meeting 14 Dodd-Frank requirements were finalized and rules meeting 6 requirements wer...
On June 22, 2011, the SEC issued final rules and rule amendments to implement provisions of Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that exempt certain a...
On June 28, 2011, in a much anticipated decision, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in In re River Road Hotel Partners, LLC, affirmed a decision of th...
This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011.
While ISS reports that 39% of S&P 500 companies continue to have staggered boards,...