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Highlights from OIG’s New Compliance Program Guidance

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) released an important new compliance resource in November 2023. The HHS OIG’s new General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) is intended...more

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SEC Releases New Guidance on Tailored Shareholder Reports

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On January 19, 2024, the Division of Investment Management staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), released several responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs) related to the adoption of rules and form...more

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SEC Adopts Rules for Shorter Deadlines and More Transparency in Share Ownership Reporting

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On October 10, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules (the Amendments) that amend Regulation 13D-G under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act), which provide companies, and the...more

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Corporate Briefing - August 2023

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Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue, we discuss...more

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FTSE 350 AGMs: Snapshot of how companies are responding to the new Pre-Emption Group guidelines

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The Pre-Emption Group issued new guidelines in November 2022. The guidelines have increased the threshold for which companies may disapply pre-emption rights to 20% and have added a new flexibility whereby companies may...more

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Delaware Court of Chancery Offers Guidance on Enforceability of Contractual Waivers Not to Sue for Breach of Fiduciary Duty

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Delaware Court of Chancery holds contractual waivers of fiduciary duties are facially valid when they are both narrowly tailored to authorize specific transactions and satisfy the Court’s review for reasonableness. Court...more

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SEC Staff Provides New Universal Proxy Guidance

On December 7, 2022, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued three Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations that address the universal proxy rules.  These are included in the Staff’s Proxy Rules and...more

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White House Releases Fact Sheet on Digital Asset Development

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The White House released a fact sheet on September 16, 2022, issuing the “First-Ever Comprehensive Framework for Responsible Development of Digital Assets” (Fact Sheet), which provides insight into the federal government’s...more

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BEIS issues anticipated National Security & Investment Act market guidance notes

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Following on from its first annual report on the National Security and Investment Act (“NSIA”) in June 2022 ), on 19 July 2022 the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) published its first set of...more

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SEC Proposes Amendments to the Shareholder Proposal Rules

On July 13, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), by a 3-2 vote, proposed amendments to the proxy rules that would narrow certain grounds under which companies may exclude shareholder proposals from their...more

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FINRA Closes Out 2021 with Further Guidance on Pandemic-Related Issues for Member Firms

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After extensive retrospective review of FINRA Rule 4370, which covers member firm business continuity plan (“BCP”) requirements during times of business disruption (such as the COVID-19 Pandemic), FINRA issued its...more

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SEC Staff issues guidance on shareholder proposals 

On November 3, 2021, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14L (CF) (SLB 14L) relating to shareholder proposals...more

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SEC staff issues new guidance on shareholder proposals involving social policy issues - SEC Update

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On November 3 the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued Staff Legal Bulletin 14L (SLB 14L) to provide new guidance on the application of the “ordinary business” and “economic relevance” exceptions to a public company’s...more

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Excluding a Shareholder Proposal? Not So Fast…

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The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance recently published Legal Bulletin 14L (CF) (the “Bulletin”) providing updated guidance on excluding shareholder proposals under Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.  Specifically, the...more

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SEC Reverses Course on Shareholder Proposals

The SEC Division of Corporation Finance announced it has rescinded Staff Legal Bulletin (“SLBs”) Nos. 14I, 14J and 14K after a review of staff experience applying the guidance in them.  Public companies relied on the guidance...more

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SEC Adopts Guidance Likely to Lead to More Policy-Related Shareholder Proposals

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On November 3, 2021, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14L (the New SLB), which will make it more difficult for companies to exclude social...more

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Back to the Future: The SEC Radically Alters Rule 14a-8 Interpretive Guidance

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Things are getting interesting, and the shareholder proposal and annual meeting season has only barely kicked off. On Wednesday, November 3, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange...more

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SEC Staff Issues Legal Bulletin Announcing Shift in Shareholder Proposal Review Process Ahead of 2022 Proxy Season

On November 3, 2021, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14L (SLB 14L), providing information regarding the...more

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SEC Releases Shareholder Proposal Staff Legal Bulletin Regarding Rule 14a-8 Under the Exchange Act

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On November 3, 2021, the Division of Corporation Finance (“Corp Fin”) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released Shareholder Proposals: Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14L(CF) (the “SLB”) to provide information for...more

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SEC Staff Issues New Shareholder Proposal Guidance, Rescinding 2017-2019 Guidance

On November 3, 2021, the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14L (SLB 14L), which explicitly rescinds Staff Legal Bulletin Nos. 14I,...more

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Is Shareholder Approval Required To Mortgage Corporate Property?

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California requires the approval of the outstanding shares of a California corporation and its board of directors when it sells, leases, conveys, exchanges, transfers or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its...more

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HSR Practice Alert – FTC is Making Changes to Respond to the “Massive Surge” in HSR Filings

Yesterday, the FTC announced certain changes in response to the continuing “massive surge” in HSR filings. See Reforming the Pre-Filing Process for Companies Considering Consolidation and a Change in the Treatment of Debt |...more

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Public Company Guide – Planning for Shareholder Engagement

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Today, shareholders are increasingly demanding corporate accountability on a variety of issues, ranging from compensation and human capital management to governance and board diversity, among others. As a result, most...more

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Must Shareholder Proponents "Stand And Deliver"?

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Lynn Jokela at TheCorporateCounsel.net blog took note yesterday of recently updated guidance from the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance concerning the conduct of shareholder meetings in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...more

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SPAC Talk: Important Considerations for Private Companies Evaluating a SPAC Going-Public Transaction

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One of the hottest going-public trends in 2020 and 2021 has been the rise of SPACs - Special Purpose Acquisition Companies - as a vehicle for private companies to go public. SPACs are shell companies that are formed, funded...more

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