On Friday, a federal district court in the Northern District of Texas dismissed the SEC’s insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. While the celebrity of the defe...
The SEC’s proposed proxy access rules were released on June 10. Comments are due by August 17. The SEC’s apparent goal is to adopt some form of proxy access rule in time for the 2010 ...
A company that has been subject to SEC reporting obligations for fewer than three years, that has less than $150 million in public float, or that is affiliated with a broker-dealer, gener...
Senator Charles Schumer recently introduced a bill, The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009, which if adopted would impose new corporate governance requirements on U.S. public companie...
The long awaited public-private investment program announced by Secretary Geithner on March 23, 2009 contains two key components: a securities purchase program, designed to remedy the ill...
In an open meeting held on March 17, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation adopted an Interim Rule that extends the Debt Guarantee Program component of...
In an open Board meeting on Friday, February 27, 2009, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) is expected to discuss a modification to the Temporary Liquidity Guarante...
On February 2, 2009 the Securities and Exchange Commission published the text of its new rules for credit rating agencies registered as nationally recognized statistical rating organizati...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued final rules requiring certain foreign private issuers to provide financial statements in XBRL format. The rules, which were anno...
The SEC has issued final rules requiring companies to provide financial statements in XBRL format. The rules, which were announced in late December, are largely as expected but do contain...
