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Yesterday, Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. of the Delaware Court of Chancery upheld the statutory and contractual validity of bylaws separately adopted by the boards of directors of Chevron...
On June 20, 2013, the Supreme Court decided a case regarding waivers of class arbitration that could have potentially wide-ranging implications in antitrust and other cases. See American ...
The OCC has issued a final rule specifying the methods for calculating credit exposure arising from derivatives and securities financing transactions for purposes of the federal lending l...
Recently, in the second of the NYSE Governance and Proxy interview series, I discussed the events this season surrounding proxy disclosure, say-on-pay, activism and proxy advisory firms w...
On June 17, 2013, the Supreme Court decided a case of considerable importance to the pharmaceutical industry. The case involved the question of whether and to what extent “reverse payme...
Last week, Starboard Value, which with nearly 15% of the shares of Office Depot is the company’s largest shareholder, filed a complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery to order the co...
Three whistleblowers were awarded a total of 15% of the money that the SEC will ultimately collect from its enforcement action against Locust Offshore Management LLC and its CEO, accordin...
Governance surveys indicate that the S&P 500 companies have largely dismantled their takeover defenses and have established so-called “good” governance practices, but that is not the ...
On June 10, 2013, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”), following a request from the European Commission, published a report comparing the liability regimes applied ...