A revised version of the Financial CHOICE Act (commonly referred to as CHOICE Act 2.0) was passed by the House Financial Services Committee last week on a strictly partisan vote and will ...
Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC’s implementation of the pay ratio rule. We previously summarized the final rule here.
Our comment letter focuses on implementation c...
The SEC issued two orders concerning violations of Exchange Act Rule 21F-17 this week. On December 19, the Commission issued an order concerning NeuStar Inc., a technology company based ...
With President-elect Donald Trump’s transition underway, speculation has been rife as to the impact of his Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress on a variety of issues, in...
President-Elect Trump’s transition website promises to “dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act and replace it with new policies to encourage economic growth and job creation.” To help our cl...
On November 8, 2016, the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) released updates to its methodology for making its pay-for-performance evaluations of U.S. publi...
Arthur Golden, Thomas Reid, Kyoko Takahashi Lin, Laura Turano and Morgan Lee are pleased to write the global overview of Getting the Deal Through – Corporate Governance 2016, an annual ...
Last month, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued final and temporary regulations that clarify the employment tax treatment of p...
On April 8, 2016 the Department of Labor published controversial final rules significantly expanding the definition of a fiduciary with respect retirement plan accounts for the purposes o...
On May 6, 2016 the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal D...
