We consider the practical takeaways of new SEC Rule 14a-19 and universal proxy card voting in contested director elections. The change to universal proxy cards is a prompt for companies t...
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department promulgated its final regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) to reform the author...
On September 17, 2019, the Treasury Department issued highly anticipated proposed final regulations intended to implement fully the reforms in the foreign investment review process wrough...
For the first time in over a decade, Congress has amended the statutory authority under which the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or the "Committee") reviews...
2018 is shaping up as a potential watershed year for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS" or the "Committee"). Within the first two weeks of the new year, CFI...
Last week saw two significant developments for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). First, on Wednesday, September 13, acting on the recommendation of C...
Proxy access is back in the news and back on the agenda for many U.S. public companies. Four years after the DC Circuit invalidated the SEC’s proxy-access rule, we are seeing company-by...
On Friday, December 19, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction entered by the Delaware Court of Chancery which had (a) barred, for 30 days, a stockholder vote ...