Companies listing on the NYSE in connection with an IPO, carve-out or spinoff transaction will have a one-year transition period to comply with the NYSE internal audit requirements. The S...
The SEC has again decided that it needs more time before it can make a decision on a NYSE rule filing to change the fees paid by companies for proxy distribution, and has delayed its orde...
The National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable have filed a notice of intent to appeal the recent D.C. District Court ruling that uphe...
Yesterday, the PCAOB proposed for public comment new auditing standards on the auditor’s report filed with the company annual report containing financial statements, generally the Form ...
Yesterday ISS released its policy survey addressing matters that may cause the proxy advisory firm to change how it makes voting recommendations for the upcoming proxy season. The survey ...
SEC Chair White testified yesterday before the Senate Banking Committee in a hearing that C-Span dubbed “Financial Market Collapse Prevention, Part 1.” Her written testimony lacks t...
The Council of Institutional Investors in June petitioned the NYSE and Nasdaq to require majority voting for the election of directors in uncontested elections. CII also wants the exchang...
With the recent court decision upholding the SEC conflict minerals rule, a recent survey PwC published summarizing responses from more than 900 individuals this past spring becomes more r...
We alerted companies to the fact that yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a suit to invalidate the SEC’s conflict mineral rule. The 63-page opinion ...
Amalgamated Bank’s LongView LargeCap 500 Index Fund and UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust have filed a novel clawback shareholder proposal at McKesson. The proposal asks that the compa...
