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Five years ago, it was reported that hedge fund Perry Capital had purchased shares of Mylan Laboratories allegedly to influence the shareholder vote in Mylan’s pending takeover of King ...
On July 27, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final Rule 204 of Regulation SHO (“Rule 204” or the “final rule”) under the Securities Exchange Act of...
The Obama Administration is currently on the legislative leg of the regulatory reform marathon that began earlier this year with the release of its Rules of the Road and continued with it...
Sixth Circuit Joins Other Circuits in Holding that Payments Made to Selling Shareholders in the Course of a Leveraged Buyout Qualify as “Settlement Payments” and Are Thus Exempt from ...
On Friday, a federal district court in the Northern District of Texas dismissed the SEC’s insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. While the celebrity of the defe...
On July 16, 2009, the Treasury Department proposed additional legislation as part of the Investor Protection Act of 2009[1] (the “Act”), titled Subtitle D – Executive Compensation (...
On May 15, 2009, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward J. Markey introduced H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security A...
On July 10, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a proposed rule that would amend the compensation disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K.
On July 15, 2009, the Treasury Department released the proposed Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009 (the “Act”), which would implement portions of the financial ...
On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (the “Act”) by a vote of 219 to 212. The Act is the first federal climate change ...