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The SEC’s proposed proxy access rules were released on June 10. Comments are due by August 17. The SEC’s apparent goal is to adopt some form of proxy access rule in time for the 2010 ...
This newsflash summarizes the key proposals in the Obama Administration’s White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform We will post a full memorandum with analysis and commentary in the c...
On June 10, 2009, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued regulations implementing the compensation requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which amen...
Yesterday, various agencies of the Federal government announced or released pronouncements and guidance affecting executive compensation and corporate governance. While some are focused o...
Pay-to-play arrangements involving payments to intermediaries to influence public pension fund investment decisions have recently come to the fore on a number of fronts:
New York Stat...
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (“NCOIL”) is drafting model legislation (the “Model Bill”) that would subject credit default swaps (“CDS”) to a state regulato...
In an important ruling issued on Sunday, May 31, 2009, Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez in the Southern District of New York approved the sale of Chrysler in exchange for two billion d...
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...
A company that has been subject to SEC reporting obligations for fewer than three years, that has less than $150 million in public float, or that is affiliated with a broker-dealer, gener...
Senator Charles Schumer recently introduced a bill, The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009, which if adopted would impose new corporate governance requirements on U.S. public companie...