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...
On Monday, May 2, 2016, the Federal Reserve and, on Friday, May 6, 2016, the SEC issued their versions of a reproposed rule to regulate incentive compensation at the financial institution...
Following is the Davis Polk visual memorandum reporting on the proposed rule jointly issued by four of the six Agencies implementing Dodd-Frank Act Section 956 regarding incentive compens...
On March 29, 2016, the District Court of Massachusetts issued a highly controversial opinion in the Sun Capital case, holding that multiple private equity funds managed by Sun Capital wer...
