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With proxy season in full swing, we wanted to provide an update on this year’s say-on-pay findings to date and compare them to results from last year at this time, almost to the day. A...
On May 18, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, by seriatim vote, proposed rules (the “Proposal”) to provide additional exemptions, and to clarify several existing exemptio...
In a speech today at the 2012 FINRA Annual Conference, CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler provided a preview of the CFTC’s much anticipated guidance regarding cross-border application of Title ...
This proxy season there has been a lot of focus on companies filing additional soliciting materials to supplement proxy disclosure, with a particular focus on executive compensation in li...
On April 11, 2012, prior to proposing rules that are required to implement certain aspects of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), the Securities and Exchange Com...
On 9 May 2012 the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) released its Consultation Paper on the Regulation of Sponsors (Consultation Paper), attaching draft new rules to regulate the dut...
The NYSE announced today that the Proxy Fee Advisory Committee (PFAC), formed in September 2010 and comprised of representative investors, brokers and companies, has published its recomme...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s Interpretive Notice concerning the application of MSRB’s fair dealing rules – MSRB Ru...
The U.K.’s implementation of “say on pay’ in 2002 is widely considered the harbinger of mandatory “say on pay” in the United States. So far, in both countries, the shareholder a...
The Federal Reserve’s decision this week to confer Comprehensive Consolidated Supervision status to three state-owned Chinese banks has been long awaited and paves the way for major Chi...