Rule 10b5-1 plans are back in the news. These plans are widely used by officers and directors of public companies to sell stock according to the parameters of the affirmative defense to i...

The Basel Committee has made significant revisions to the Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio (“LCR”). The revised LCR standards allow banks to use a broader range of liquid assets to ...

In the current environment and in the wake of Dodd-Frank mandated rules requiring shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation, shareholder-plaintiffs have more aggressively chall...

The SEC has approved new listing standards governing compensation committees as proposed by NYSE and Nasdaq in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act. The standards are essentially adopted as...

The Chamber of Commerce has come out swinging in its 30-page comment letter on the SEC rulemaking petition urging public disclosure of corporate political spending, which we previously di...

On January 4, 2013, the Sixth Circuit denied the U.S. government’s petition for en banc review of its September 2012 decision in United States v. Quality Stores that certain severance p...

HP’s preliminary proxy statement filed recently included a company proposal to allow any shareholder, or no more than 20 in number, who hold 3% or more of HP shares continuously for 3 ye...

Both the NYSE and NASDAQ have filed further amendments to their proposed listing standards on compensation committees and their advisers. The amendments copy directly from the exception i...

On December 20th, ISS issued two extensive FAQs on their voting policies. This post covers the compensation items (a previous post covered the non-compensation items). Although the compen...

The memorandum addresses recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohibition prevent...