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After more than a decade of litigation in the lower courts, the Supreme Court yesterday heard oral argument in a case of considerable consequence to the pharmaceutical industry. The issue...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Staff Responds to Questions About Form PF
Industry Update
SEC Issues Risk Alert Identifying Significant Deficiencies in Compliance with the Custody R...
We spoke with Agenda for its recent article, “Large Companies Have Strictest Director Independence Standards” (subscription required), which explored the Conference Board’s 2013 Dir...
Hewlett-Packard’s annual meeting yesterday was preceded by a bustle of activity around the agenda items, with a string of news reports announcing that as many as 5 of its 11 board membe...
Is there a difference between a shareholder proposal that asks that the Board’s chairman be an independent director as defined by the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and who has no...
ISS QuickScores are now publicly available on companies’ Yahoo Finance pages, under the Business Summary link. The Corporate Governance section reports, as of March 1, 2013, a company?...
So far, as we launch into the proxy season, only a handful of companies have filed additional soliciting materials to dispute proxy advisory firm recommendations. These materials were alm...
As a result of the Dodd-Frank Act, the over-the-counter derivatives markets have become subject to significant new regulatory oversight. As the markets respond to these new regulations, t...
At its meeting last week, Disney’s proxy access proposal received 40% in support. As we previously discussed here, the SEC Staff did not permit the company to exclude the proposal from...
In another move that more closely aligns Nasdaq listing standards with those of the NYSE, Nasdaq has filed a proposed rule change with the SEC that would require its listed companies to h...