Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights April 18, 2016 Client Update SEC Concept Release on Regulation S-K Asks More Than 800 Questions in Soliciting Comments, with a 90-Day Deadline The SEC concept release on the business and financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K is a whopping 341 pages. ... April 12, 2016 Client Update Board Diversity and Sustainability Proposals Achieve Majority Support While still early in the season, two ESG proposals have passed, in an unusual level of support for those types of resoluti... April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Issues New Anti-Inversion Guidance On April 4, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued (i) fin... April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Proposes Overhaul of Intercompany Debt Rules The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) on April 4, 2016 released propos... April 6, 2016 Client Update NASDAQ Proposes Requiring Companies to Disclose Outside Compensatory Payments to Directors The SEC has published a proposed Nasdaq listing standard for public comment. Comments are due 21 days after publication in... April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p... March 31, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Agrees Company Proposal to Retain Supermajority Provisions Directly Conflicts with Simple Majority Vote Shareholder Proposal Since the SEC staff substantially narrowed the use of Rule 14a-8(i)(9) as a basis to exclude shareholder proposals in Staf... March 29, 2016 Client Update IPO Governance Gains Investor Attention CII issued a recent policy statement focused on newly public companies, prompted by concerns about high-profile IPOs using... March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve... March 24, 2016 Client Update Legislation Introduced to Increase Activist Hedge Fund Disclosure U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have introduced The Brokow Act designed to increase oversight o... Load More
April 18, 2016 Client Update SEC Concept Release on Regulation S-K Asks More Than 800 Questions in Soliciting Comments, with a 90-Day Deadline The SEC concept release on the business and financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K is a whopping 341 pages. ...
April 12, 2016 Client Update Board Diversity and Sustainability Proposals Achieve Majority Support While still early in the season, two ESG proposals have passed, in an unusual level of support for those types of resoluti...
April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Issues New Anti-Inversion Guidance On April 4, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued (i) fin...
April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Proposes Overhaul of Intercompany Debt Rules The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) on April 4, 2016 released propos...
April 6, 2016 Client Update NASDAQ Proposes Requiring Companies to Disclose Outside Compensatory Payments to Directors The SEC has published a proposed Nasdaq listing standard for public comment. Comments are due 21 days after publication in...
April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p...
March 31, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Agrees Company Proposal to Retain Supermajority Provisions Directly Conflicts with Simple Majority Vote Shareholder Proposal Since the SEC staff substantially narrowed the use of Rule 14a-8(i)(9) as a basis to exclude shareholder proposals in Staf...
March 29, 2016 Client Update IPO Governance Gains Investor Attention CII issued a recent policy statement focused on newly public companies, prompted by concerns about high-profile IPOs using...
March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve...
March 24, 2016 Client Update Legislation Introduced to Increase Activist Hedge Fund Disclosure U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have introduced The Brokow Act designed to increase oversight o...