The SEC has just extended the deadline for comments in response to its proposed rules directing the national securities exchanges to adopt listing standards regarding the independence of ...

Perhaps the onset of warmer weather has made us aware of the approach of July 21st, an auspicious date representing the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act and also the statutory d...

There continue to be multiple areas of legislative activity to repeal or amend certain provisions of Dodd-Frank, including draft legislation to require employees to communicate internally...

We’re up to nine failed say-on-pay votes so far for the year. We’ll provide a client communication shortly on the latest state of play in the say-on-pay world, including the reasons r...

Notwithstanding the proliferation of advance notice bylaws, floor resolutions at annual meetings are fairly unusual. In January, Walden Asset Management and 44 other investors contacted o...

We are pleased to announce the publication of a Davis Polk and McKinsey & Co. co-authored whitepaper, Credible Living Wills: The First Generation. This unique collaboration combines a leg...

Perhaps as another fallout of the financial crisis, Moody’s shareholders approved an independent chair proposal with 56% support, a substantial increase from the two prior years which s...

The Dodd-Frank Act may require many currently unregistered non-U.S. investment advisers to register with the SEC as investment advisers, because the Act eliminates a registration exemptio...

Last year a Texas judge allowed Apache Corp. to exclude a shareholder proposal from John Chevedden on the basis that his broker statement did not come directly from a “record holder” ...

On April 14, 2011, the CFTC released its proposed rules governing margin requirements for uncleared swaps entered into by non-bank swap entities. This newsflash provides an update to our ...