Vanguard cast more than 171,000 individual votes at nearly 13,000 companies in 68 countries for the 12-month period ending June 30th, making the firm one of the most influential investors...

On 12 September 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published the twelfth edition of the Takeover Code, replacing in its entirety the previous edition published in September 2011 in the wake of K...

In the August 25th episode of the CFTC podcast, CFTC Talks, the new Director of the CFTC’s Enforcement Division, James McDonald, discussed his priorities for the Division (transcript he...

Deadlines for calendar-year companies are rapidly approaching Many companies were required to include “say-on-frequency” proposals in their 2017 annual meeting proxies. Under a say-on...

Shareholder activism decreases the number of women and minority directors on target company boards, an impact seen even after activism ends, according to a new ISS study commissioned by t...

Earlier this summer, the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a Chief Counsel Advice (CCA) memorandum providing insight into how the IRS interprets a...

The U.S. banking agencies (the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC) propose to delay the last phase of the U.S. Basel III capital rules’ transition provisions relating to certain deductions f...

In United States v. Martoma , a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a key holding of its previous decision in United States v. Newman and significantly loosene...

As a follow-up to our prior post, the OMB has approved the DOL’s proposal to delay the full applicability date of the exemptions related to the fiduciary rule and shortly thereafter the...

Rules and Regulations SEC Staff Releases FAQs on Investment Company Reporting Modernization Reforms SEC’s Acting Director of OCIE Says Private Equity May Be Less of a Priority Ahead SE...