Joseph A. Hall

On August 21, 2019, the SEC issued guidance to assist investment advisers in fulfilling their proxy voting responsibilities (the “Guidance”) and an interpretation that proxy voting ad...

On Sept. 6, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff announced a significant change to its policy on issuing no-action letters to companies seeking to exclude a shareholder propo...

The SEC staff has changed its policy on issuing no-action letters to companies seeking to exclude a shareholder proposal from a proxy statement. The agency said it may sometimes respond o...

Last week the SEC published staff interpretations on the new Inline XBRL tagging requirements for Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F and 40-F. The new data-tagging rules, part of the SEC’s eff...

The SEC has proposed updated rules for the business description, legal proceedings and risk factor disclosure that U.S. companies make in registration statements, annual reports and quart...

On August 21, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved two significant measures related to the increasingly large role of proxy advisory firms in the corporate voting process...

The Business Roundtable has set out a path toward so-called stakeholder capitalism in its highly publicized Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation. There has been a great deal of media...

 Davis Polk’s Joe Hall and Betty M. Huber served as contributors for the 12th edition of International Comparative Legal Guide: Corporate Governance 2019, authoring the “ESG in the US...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority issued a joint statement Monday saying that so-called m...

The SEC’s digital asset Framework summarizes and extends the traditional Howey analysis for determining when an investable asset is a security. The author suggests that the Framework fo...