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Spencer Stuart has released its annual report on S&P 500 board practices, a useful guide for benchmarking. The overall trends demonstrate few changes from the prior year, leading the rep...
On November 5, 2018, the United States completed the process of fully re-imposing sanctions related to Iran that were waived or lifted pursuant to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (...
Unlike S&P and FTSE, after an 18-month consultation period, MSCI has announced that equity securities with unequal voting structures will continue to be included in the MSCI Global Invest...
On October 25, 2018, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (the “SCIA”) published a case analysis detailing its decision on a business contract dispute involving the possess...
PwC’s annual corporate directors survey concludes that boards are evolving and seeking change, rather than primarily valuing collegiality and consensus. The survey also shows some disc...
In recent years, a new populist school of antitrust thinking has emerged, known as “Neo-Brandeisian” to its proponents and “hipster” to its detractors. There are varying formulat...
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act offers generous tax incentives for taxpayers investing in “qualified opportunity funds” (“QOFs”)—entities that invest in businesses located within...
Under its 2019 updated guidelines, Glass Lewis will typically recommend against the members of the nominating and governance committee when a company is able to exclude a shareholder prop...
The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Staff Legal Bulletin 14J to provide guidance on some of the issues that bedeviled us earlier this year as to when the staff would,...
In March 2018, the Chinese government announced that the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) would replace the tripartite structure established by China’s 2008 Anti-Monopo...