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The SEC has stayed implementation of its newly-adopted proxy access rules, including the amendments to Rule 14a-8, pending resolution of a legal challenge to the rule brought by the Busin...
The SEC has stayed the effect of newly adopted proxy access Rule 14a-11 and the related amendments to the Commission’s rules, including the amendment to Rule 14a-8, pending resolution o...
On September, 24, 2010, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (“the Division”) announced that six firms — Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., ...
In the few years before the credit crisis, financial buyers often arranged to buy businesses in deals that required a termination fee to be paid by the sponsor if the shell-company buyer ...
2011 will be a transition year for key proxy-related governance matters. Not only will this be the first year for proxy access, but mandatory say on pay and other governance provisions of...
You may recall that last year a federal district court in Texas dismissed the SEC’s insider trading case against Mark Cuban, on the theory that a simple confidentiality agreement withou...
On September 18, 2010, the SEC proposed amendments which would require both financial and nonfinancial companies to disclose additional information in registration statements and periodic...
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), enacted after a long and intensive legislative process, will impact private funds and their advis...
The SEC’s new proxy access rules, announced on August 25, 2010, finally appeared in the Federal Register today, which means they will be effective as of November 15, 2010.