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The DC Circuit’s vacating of the SEC’s proxy access rule has wider applications for the possible challenge of regulations under the Dodd Frank Act on the grounds that they fail to ana...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today vacated Exchange Act Rule 14a-11, which would have required U.S. public companies to include shareholder nominees for election as directors in thei...
Davis Polk is pleased to present its One-Year Anniversary Dodd-Frank Progress Report, which provides statistical analysis and graphical illustrations of Dodd-Frank rulemaking, study and i...
The SEC recently proposed amendments to Rule 17a-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 — the broker-dealer financial reporting rule — that would significantly increase the repor...
As a result of targeted activism in the last few years, more than half of the S&P 500 companies now allow shareholders to call special meetings. The number of shareholder proposals relat...
On July 12, 2011, the SEC issued an order (the “Order”) that raises the dollar amount thresholds in the assets-under-management and net worth tests in the definition of “qualified c...
Last week the federal banking agencies released interagency supervisory guidance designed to create new, and higher, best practices for counterparty credit risk (CCR) management at bankin...
As is their customary timing, on Friday afternoon the SEC issued several updated CD&I interpretations of particular interest to the governance community:
–Information About Non-Continu...
On July 7, 2011, the FTC published on its website a notice of final rulemaking, setting forth substantial revisions and amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Premerger Notificat...
With the vast majority of this year’s annual shareholder meetings for U.S. public companies behind us (at least for those with calendar-year fiscal years), we wanted to update the findi...