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 February 9, 2015, the SEC proposed a long-awaited rule on disclosure of company equity hedging policies, as required by Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Pr...
In Marblegate Asset Management v. Education Management Corp. (S.D.N.Y. 2014), the Southern District of New York found that a proposed out-of-court debt restructuring to the detriment of n...
A new no-action letter from the SEC staff substantially revises the rules applicable to shortened debt tender offers and expands their utility. The new rules may also portend changes in p...
On December 17, 2014, the SEC proposed rule amendments intended to make it easier for private companies to raise capital, by relaxing existing requirements that would otherwise force them...
Last week, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority entered into settlement agreements with a number of the major banking firms in response to allegations that their equity research an...
We have summarized
35 comment letters submitted in response to New York’s “BitLicense” proposal that have been made public by their authors. We have aggregated these letters, for ...
In preparation for the 2015 proxy season, companies should be aware of the updates to the policies that govern how the two influential proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, will be a...
In a decision that may predict the outcome of the ongoing SEC conflict minerals court case, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, sitting en banc, ruled that a regulation ...
Despite pressure on US public companies to adopt certain governance practices, a review of the largest initial public offerings (in terms of deal size) show that newly public companies co...
