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On 14 November 2014, the UK Takeover Panel published a response statement (RS 2014/1) to its July consultation on miscellaneous changes to the Takeover Code (PCP 2014/1). The consultatio...
Jay D. Hanson, a board member of the PCAOB, recently spoke about the PCAOB’s efforts to address issues raised by audit committees.
The board of the PCAOB began its outreach to audit c...
In an opinion entered on November 17, 2014, Judge Stuart M. Bernstein of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York held that Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Issues Preliminary Denial to Exemptive Relief Applications for Operation of Non-Transparent Active ETFs
Industry Update
CFTC Announces Self-Executing...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the petitions for panel rehearing by the SEC and Amnesty International on the conflict minerals case, and have ordered the parties to file su...
Following a recent line of high profile and notable decisions that have sought to protect the rights of trademark licensees in a trademark licensor’s bankruptcy, the U.S. Bankruptcy Cou...
Directors can provide more insight on how they govern their companies, and investors can give more information on how they cast their votes, so that there is less mystery from both sides,...
The final day for companies to verify the data that will form the basis of their ISS QuickScore 3.0 is tomorrow, November 14. The program closes after that time until the launch of QuickS...
A new form of shareholder proposal focused on environmental and social issues does not ask the company to, for example, report on reducing emissions. Instead, the proposal is focused on h...
We have summarized
35 comment letters submitted in response to New York’s “BitLicense” proposal that have been made public by their authors. We have aggregated these letters, for ...