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CFPB Hits Executive Compensation in Action Against National Mortgage Servicer for Illegal Foreclosure Practices

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On August 21, the CFPB entered into a consent order with a nonbank mortgage servicer for mortgage servicing violations and for violating an earlier 2017 CFPB consent order for deficient foreclosure practices. In 2017, the...more

White & Case LLP

The SEC’s Settlement with Cloopen Demonstrates the Significant Benefits of Prompt Cooperation

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On February 6, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced that it settled accounting fraud charges against Cloopen Group Holding Limited ("Cloopen" or the "Company"), a cloud-based communications...more

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The SEC's Immensely Impracticable Impracticability Exception

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This week's posts have been discussing the recent adoption by the Securities and Exchange Commission of rules requiring the securities exchanges to adopt listing standards requiring listed companies to develop and implement...more

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Corporate Law & Governance Update - July 2019

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IMPACT OF EQUIFAX, FACEBOOK SETTLEMENTS - Health care industry boards should give close attention to the governance implications of recent privacy settlements entered into by Equifax and Facebook. Their unique facts...more

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Three new acts change tax and employee benefit rules and might require employer action

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Congress and the Administration have been busy recently, enacting not only the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" or "TCJA" on December 22, 2017, but also a Continuing Resolution on January 23, 2018, and the Bipartisan Budget Act of...more

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Tax Reform Impact On Employers And Employees

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This is the fifth issue in a planned series of alerts designed to provide an in-depth analysis on topics related to tax reform. On December 15, 2017, Congressional Leaders announced that the conferees appointed by both...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Executive Compensation and Benefits Alert: Nuisance Plaintiffs Pursue Novel Theories to Exact Section 16 Settlements

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The so-called “short-swing profit rule” under Securities Exchange Act Section 16(b) generally prohibits officers and directors as well as 10 percent shareholders of a U.S. public company from profiting from any purchase or...more

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Corporate Law & Governance Update - August 2016

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The Hershey Governance Settlement - On Friday, July 29, the Pennsylvania Attorney General, the Hershey Trust Company and the Milton Hershey School, entered into a written settlement resolving an investigation conducted...more

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SEC Obtains Settlement for Violations of Registration Rules and “Layering”

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The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced a settlement with two brokerage firms and certain of their executives for improper compensation-sharing and “layering,” a strategy in which a trader places and later...more

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Proxy Season Brings a Third Wave of “Gotcha” Shareholder Litigation

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Proxy season is upon us and the plaintiffs’ bar is demonstrating its resourcefulness by bringing a third wave of shareholder litigation. This new wave, which has not crested yet, consists of a return to derivative shareholder...more

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