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What follows is a summary of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by the House of Representatives on December 11, 2009. The Act, like Senate Banking Committee Chairma...
On December 11, 2009, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 passed in the House 223 to 202.* Title II of the bill, entitled the Corporate and Financial Institution Co...
On December 2, 2009, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) proposed for public comment new rules that would govern FINRA members’ ability to make payments to persons...
On December 9, the House of Representatives will consider a bill to extend a variety of expiring tax provisions. As had been expected, the bill will include as revenue raisers a revised v...
Environmental Shareholder Proposals May Now Be Harder to Exclude
AES Reaches Settlement with New York State Attorney General Regarding Climate Change Disclosure
Shareholder Activists an...
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...