The SEC, which has recently been investigating workplace agreements out of concern that they may impede whistleblowing activity protected by the Dodd-Frank Act, announced yesterday its fi...
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Corporate Law & Accountability Report, 13 CARE 10, 03/06/15, Bloomberg BNA
On Feb. 9, the SEC proposed a long-awaited rule on disclosure of company equity hedging policies, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act (13 CARE 321, 2/13/15) (13 CARE 376, 2/20/15). The prop...
On February 9, 2015, the SEC proposed a long-awaited rule on disclosure of company equity hedging policies, as required by Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Pr...
The CRD IV package, comprising the Capital Requirements Directive IV[1] (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation[2] (CRR), sets out requirements in relation to the remuneration po...
In preparation for the 2015 proxy season, companies should be aware of the updates to the policies that govern how the two influential proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, will be a...
The move toward stricter regulation of remuneration in the financial services industry in the European Union has continued over the course of the past year, rendering the web of overlappi...
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Getting the Deal Through − Corporate Governance 2014
Corporate governance remains a hot topic worldwide this year, but for different reasons in different regions. In the United States, this year could be characterised as largely ‘business...
On June 25, 2014, in Fifth Third Bancorp et al. v. Dudenhoeffer et al., the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the presumption of prudence that has been applied in “stock drop”...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced a settlement on Monday, June 16, 2014 that marked its first case to protect a whistleblower under the anti-retaliation provisi...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Financial Protection Act impose overlapping anti-retaliation provisions that generally prohibit retaliation against corporate “whistleblo...
