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The SEC Dodd-Frank Investor Advisory Committee, established pursuant to Dodd-Frank, has provided notice that it will hold a public meeting on Thursday, October 9, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. un...
A Chinese intermediate court found GSK’s China subsidiary guilty of commercial bribery and fined the company a record RMB 3 billion (USD 490 million). Five of GSK China’s top managers...
Shareholders were asked to vote on almost 1,200 equity plan proposals in the first half of 2014, according to the ISS U.S. Proxy Season Review Report, with an average approval rate of 89%...
The French Social Investment Forum has awarded the European research prize for Finance and Sustainable Development to the study that Patrick Bolton and Frédéric Samama have conducted on...
Le forum pour l’investissement responsable a décerné le prix de la recherche européenne Finance et Développement Durable à l’étude que Patrick Bolton et Frédéric Samama ont co...
The UK Takeover Panel is consulting on a new framework for the regulation of statements made by the parties to an offer relating to a particular course of action that they commit to or in...
SEC Chair White has spoken about the SEC’s interest in reforming the current disclosure regime, which we discuss here. Perhaps foreshadowing the possible benefits of change, the WSJ rec...
On September 8, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed a rule to permanently exempt the publication or distribution of certain security-based swap price quotes ...
Rehearing en banc of the conflict minerals case is not warranted because there is no conflict with other court decisions, argues the National Association of Manufacturers, Chamber of Comm...
On September 3, 2014, U.S. banking regulators re-proposed margin, capital and segregation requirements applicable to swap entities for uncleared swaps. The new proposed rules modify si...