With ongoing pressure on companies that are past the IPO stage to update or modify their corporate governance practices to align with the views of some shareholders and proxy advisory fir...
On May 17, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance released new and revised Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) on the use of non-GAAP financial measures. C...
On May 3, the SEC approved rule amendments that will make it easier for many private companies to remain private, and easier for some public financial companies to terminate their SEC rep...
Last week, the SEC issued a concept release, a forerunner to potential rulemaking, seeking public comment on modernizing the disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K, the central source ...
In two recent cases, the SEC affirmatively decided not to bring clawback actions under Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”) against executives who reimbursed their respective...
On December 11, the SEC once again proposed rules to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act relating to resource extraction issuers. Section 1504 generally provides that a U.S. or f...
On November 16, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates gave a speech regarding the implementation of the Department of Justice’s recent policy initiatives to facilitate the ...
Yesterday, conference committee members for the House and Senate agreed on a five-year transportation bill. While this type of legislation is rarely of interest to participants in the cap...
ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public company directors and unilateral governance changes by boards.
On October 30, the SEC voted 3-1 to adopt final rules to permit eligible companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding—a relatively new and evolving Internet-based method ...
