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In what may be a first, Western Union is seeking to exclude a proxy access shareholder proposal from Norges Bank by arguing in a no-action letter request that the company is submitting it...
46 New Deadlines. 42 rulemaking requirements and 4 studies were due in January.
12 Requirements Met, 0 Proposed. The CFPB released final rules on qualified mortgage standards, mortgage s...
Looking back at 2012, four years after China implemented its Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”), we can discern some important ways in which China’s antitrust regime today both mirrors and d...
ISS has announced a replacement to its GRID (governance risk indicators) product named QuickScore. 3,000 U.S. companies by market cap, with the largest 500 compared separately from the re...
A panel of three judges in the D.C. Circuit stunned Washington on Friday by striking down President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB in Noel Canning v. NLRB on a basis much more ...
Perhaps the surprise of the proxy season so far is the relative quiet with respect to proxy access shareholder proposals, as there have been few reports of companies receiving them. This ...
ISS has updated its pay-for-performance white paper, which is used to explain how it develops recommendations for say-on-pay votes, to include additional information on its recently annou...
On January 10, 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) announced that it is inviting prospective crowdfunding funding portals to voluntarily submit information to ...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Lifts Moratorium on Approving Actively Managed ETFs That Invest in Derivatives
SEC Extends Temporary Rule 206(3)-3T Regarding Principal Transactions wit...
On January 11, 2013, the SEC approved the NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards, as amended, to implement the SEC’s requirement that national securities exchanges prohibit the listing of an...