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The SEC has approved, in their entirety, the changes to the NYSE’s corporate governance rules proposed by the NYSE last August. The new rules will take effect on January 1, 2010. For th...
RiskMetrics Group, an influential proxy advisory service, recently issued updates on its proxy voting policies applicable to meetings of US companies held after February 1, 2010. The upda...
In recent years, securities fraud lawsuits in the United States have increasingly been brought against nonU.S. companies. In October 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Secon...
On November 24, 2009, Judge James M. Peck of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a significant decision [1] in the ION Media Networks, Inc. ban...
For the past six months the air has been thick with SEC proposals and Congressional bills on corporate governance and compensation practices, some of which overlap and others of which sup...
The project of federalizing major elements of our corporate governance and executive compensation processes continues apace. The 1,136-page Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2...
In two recent decisions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that a debtor may prohibit secured credi...
Taking another step in its review of equity market structure issues, on November 13, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released a proposal to increase the trans...
Last Thursday, the SEC announced settled charges against SafeNet, Inc. and certain of its former officers and employees in connection with an alleged earnings management scheme that mater...
This summary compares the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009, referred to as the “Dodd bill,” with various other legislative proposals.