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The Informed Board - Winter 2024

The oversight obligations of boards continue to expand. Recent enforcement actions and new laws in areas such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and supply chains create new challenges for boards, as we explain in this...more

Nossaman LLP

Compliance Notes - Vol. 4, Issue 47

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Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Market Trends 2020/21: Disclosure on Political Contributions

This practice note discusses market trends on how public companies’ political contributions, or “political spending,” is perceived to be intertwined with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, and provides...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

ESG in the Political Law Arena

Political activities of corporations have been increasingly subject to scrutiny on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. Indeed, increased demands that corporate political action committees justify their...more

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ESG in 2021 – The Role of Board Oversight of Corporate Political Spending

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Environmental, social and governance (or ESG) issues have been hot topics and buzzwords in corporate governance for well over a decade and these issues have increasingly grabbed the attention of corporations and their boards...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Commissioner Jackson Sends Letter to Congress

On November 18, 2019, Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) Commissioner Robert Jackson sent a letter to Representative Carolyn Maloney attributing the lack of public disclosure regarding the political spending...more

WilmerHale

Report Finds Clear Trend Toward Increased Transparency in Corporate Political Spending

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A recent report by a pro-transparency group and The Wharton School found a clear trend among S&P 500 companies toward increased disclosures and oversight regarding their political spending. Per the report, more than half of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Impact of SEC Staff Guidance on Shareholder Proposals Leaves a Murky Path Forward

In November 2017, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued guidance concerning companies’ ability to exclude shareholder proposals from their proxy...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Proposed Legislation to Watch

There are a number of legislative proposals making their way through the House and the Senate that would affect public reporting companies and are gathering some momentum, so they bear watching....more

Perkins Coie

CEOs, Politics and the Law: Guidelines for a New Era in Corporate Social Speech

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In recent weeks, America’s CEOs have spoken out on social issues like never before, placing the business community firmly within the national debate. Likewise, companies are feeling internal and external pressures to...more

Blank Rome LLP

Is SEC Regulation of Political Spending Dead?

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It is unlikely that it is dead, but it certainly is on life support. But, I believe that board oversight, and disclosure, of corporate political expenditures will continue to increase. In 2011, the Committee of...more

Allen Matkins

Political Spending Disclosures – An Idea So Good That I Think You Should Pay For It

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In July 2011, a group of ten law professors filed a rulemaking petition with the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking adoption of a rule requiring disclosure of political spending by publicly traded companies. ...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"SEC Considering Disclosure of Political Activity Spending"

On December 21, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicated in its semiannual regulatory agenda that the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance is considering whether to recommend that the...more

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