With President-elect Donald Trump’s transition underway, speculation has been rife as to the impact of his Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress on a variety of issues, in...
On November 8, 2016, the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) released updates to its methodology for making its pay-for-performance evaluations of U.S. publi...
Last month, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued final and temporary regulations that clarify the employment tax treatment of p...
On April 8, 2016 the Department of Labor published controversial final rules significantly expanding the definition of a fiduciary with respect retirement plan accounts for the purposes o...
Following is the Davis Polk visual memorandum reporting on the proposed rule jointly issued by four of the six Agencies implementing Dodd-Frank Act Section 956 regarding incentive compens...
On March 29, 2016, the District Court of Massachusetts issued a highly controversial opinion in the Sun Capital case, holding that multiple private equity funds managed by Sun Capital wer...
On April 6, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) issued final regulations expanding the definition of a “fiduciary” with respect to pension and retirement plans, IRAs an...
The recent market turmoil has forced VC firms and other private company investors to examine closely the real possibility of seeking financing at a lower valuation – what is often refer...
The past year has seen the issue of financial sector pay continue to generate headlines. With the EU having put in place a complex web of overlapping law, regulation and guidance during 2...
On August 5, 2015, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted a final rule implementing the provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires U.S. public companies to disclose the ratio of their CEO’s ...
