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The 2017 season that just passed witnessed two kinds of proposals asking companies to amend existing proxy access bylaws. The first type sent to companies earlier in the season sought to ...
Like other federal agencies, the SEC recently released its regulatory agenda. The agenda is published by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and B...
The CFTC staff has once again extended its no-action relief from the “arrange, negotiate or execute” provisions of CFTC Advisory 13-69, the controversial 2013 advisory that applies tr...
On July 13, 2017, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published a consultation paper entitled “Proposal to create a new premium listing category for sovereign controlled ...
Following the publication of the EU Prospectus Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union on June 14, 2017, ESMA has now published draft technical advice on prospectus discl...
We
previously outlined
the growing threat of securities class action lawsuits against life sciences companies and the importance of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Omn...
Friday marks the seventh anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act. The outlook for financial regulation, and Dodd-Frank, has fundamentally shifted over the past year. Since President Trump’s...
With 371 public campaigns against U.S. companies, according to a recent J.P. Morgan report on the new normal in shareholder activism, the 2017 proxy season proved to be fairly active. Alt...
The Trump Administration submitted its second certification to Congress regarding Iranian compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the “JCPOA”) on July 17, 2017. Like ...
In a decision
released July 13, the U.S. Tax Court held that gain realized by a non-U.S. investor on the disposition of an interest in a partnership that operated a U.S. business was gen...