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While we are all undoubtedly aware of the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) pending lawsuit seeking to enjoin the merger of AMR and U.S. Airways, you may be less focused on the fact t...
On September 23, 2013, U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan of the Southern District of New York issued a decision with potential implications for the interpretation of Section 546(e) of ...
Keith Higgins, the director of the Division of Corporation Finance, spoke at the always informative Tackling Your 2014 Compensation Disclosure: The Proxy Disclosure Conference, which was ...
On September 18, 2013, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC proposed a rule implementing the provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires U.S. public companies to disclose a ratio of their CEO’s com...
By now, the governance community is well aware that the SEC proposed the pay ratio rules yesterday at an open meeting, which we discussed here. The initial reaction has demonstrated the d...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“BCBS”) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (“IOSCO”) on September 2 released their final policy framework on ...
At the SEC’s open meeting today, the Commissioners approved in a 3 to 2 vote (Commissioners Gallagher and Piwowar dissenting) the proposed so-called “pay ratio” rules, mandated by S...
Last week, the National Association of Manufacturers, Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable began their appeal of the SEC conflict minerals decision with an opening brief filed ...
The SEC has announced that it will hold an open meeting next Wednesday, September 18, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. to consider whether to propose rules to require companies to disclose the median ...
A proxy access shareholder proposal from CtW Investment Group should be excluded for lack of clarity and because it conflicts with the company’s bylaws, Walgreens contended in a no-acti...