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Two key, but limited, policy changes for U.S. companies have been proposed by ISS. The open comment period will run through 5:00 p.m. ET on November 1.
Board Gender Diversity. Beginning ...
On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Section 21(a) report of investigation emphasizing the importance of assessing the likelihood of cyberattacks when designing int...
The Treasury Department has issued temporary regulations establishing a pilot program to implement two provisions of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 that did ...
Retail shareholders own about 30% of public companies, a fairly consistent level over the past five years, but only about 28% of those shares are voted, according to the latest issue of P...
On October 11, 2018, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a lengthy “Advisory on the Iranian Regime’s Illicit and Malign Activities a...
After a several-year pause, the CFTC is again re-assessing its approach to cross-border regulation of swap activities. The CFTC’s current approach is embodied in various rulemakings, gu...
On October 11, 2018, the SEC reopened the comment period and requested additional comments for previously proposed rules relating to capital, margin, and segregation requirements for secu...
On October 5, 2018, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it had entered into an approximately $5.3 million civil monetary settlement wi...
It is no secret that the United States lags behind other countries in the development of a national real-time payments infrastructure.[1] There are, of course, explanations for this lag,...
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the federal banking regulators have taken a small step towards improving the BSA/AML compliance framework for...