We are submitting this letter in response to the solicitation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for preliminary comments on Subtitle E of Title IX–Account...
On October 18th, the SEC proposed rules to implement Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (codified as new Section 14A of the Securities Exchange A...
The Task Force on the Financial Crisis of the International Bar Association (“IBA”), whose members are seasoned practitioners in the field of bank regulation, issued a report on the F...
The Group of Thirty (“G30”), an organization of preeminent global finance leaders, released a report this week entitled Enhancing Financial Stability and Resilience: Macroprudential P...
On July 13, 2010, in a controversial decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that a debtor must comply with the stringent procedural and substantive requirements o...
The analysis of disclosure included in 2010 proxy statements by some of the largest U.S. public companies shows that a wide variety of attributes, skills and experiences are being conside...
The new Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act includes a provision, added in the midst of conference committee negotiations, requiring public companies to seek shareho...
Articles & Books
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, reprinted in Best of ABI 2011: The Year in Business Bankruptcy
In a recently published decision, In re DBSD North America Inc., 421 B.R. 133 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2009), Hon. Robert E. Gerber of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New Y...
On May 26, 2010, the SEC proposed to require FINRA and the SROs to adopt a plan for the development, implementation and maintenance of a consolidated audit trail for the listed equities a...